Jewish graves may be dug up and remains bulldozed

The human remains of a prestigious British Jewish dynasty risk being dug up after their graves have been levelled by a bulldozer, unless a last remaining family heiress and the Jewish community can win their claim to the land by Friday.

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Sheffield's dictionary triumph

What has been billed as the first Dictionary of Classical Hebrew has been completed by a team of scholars based at Sheffield University.

"The only dictionaries there have been are of biblical Hebrew," explained the editor of the eight-volume set, David Clines, emeritus professor of biblical studies at Sheffield.

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Steel city celebration

Sheffield JSoc members have enjoyed a successful term of events, culminating with a visit to a film screening.

They watched Anita, a film about the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina, which was shown as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

Events since January have included four Friday night Shabbat dinners hosted at Hillel House.

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Human rights lawyer Ben Spier talks to Kingfield Synagogue

Fifty people attended Kingfield Synagogue for a talk by Ben Spier on his work as a human rights lawyer. He recalled how he met former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day event in Cardiff in 2006 when he spoke to them about human rights.

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Forty people meet at Kingfield Synagogue for lecture by forensic pathologist

Forty people from across the community met at Kingfield Synagogue for a lecture by forensic pathologist Professor Chris Milroy. Professor Milroy discussed a mummified body, found in Pakistan in 2001, reputed to be that of a Persian princess. He related how when taking part in a BBC Horizon programme he was asked to establish if it was genuine. He explained that the mummy, wrapped in machine-made bandages, was a fraud.

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Sheffield's Yom Hashoah service

Some 70 people from both Sheffield’s Orthodox and Reform congregations attended a Yom Hashoah service at Kingfield Synagogue. There were readings by members of both congregations and memorial candles lit by community members Dorothy Flemming, Agnes Grunwald-Spier, Werner Sussenwein, Peter Meyer, Sue Pearson and Adrian Rubenstein.

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