The Bimah Restoration Appeal opens.
Why we are raising a small named fund for the timber framework beneath the bimah.
News & stories
Short dispatches, written when there is something to say.
The Trust's news feed is deliberately quiet. We publish four or five short essays a year, plus the occasional note when a grant is made or a piece of work is completed. Everything you read here is written by the trustees or the wardens — there is no marketing team.
Two hundred and sixty years on Catherine Street.
A short essay marking the anniversary of the synagogue's consecration on 26 August 1762.
Bringing the archive into the light.
How a small Heritage grant is helping us re-house two and a half centuries of paper.
A note from the architect on the bimah.
The architect's brief summary of the conservation issues identified during the quinquennial inspection.
A Year Five class meets the 1820s.
Eli Mendelson on bringing schoolchildren to the synagogue archive for the first time.
Margaret's letter, six months on.
Margaret, who first wrote to us about her return to Plymouth, sends an update from the High Holy Days.
A small annual report, summarised.
The shape of our 2024–25 accounts in four short paragraphs.
The 1941 wardens' minute book.
A few extracts from the wardens' minute book covering the months of the Plymouth Blitz.
Heritage Open Days, 2024.
A short note on the two open days held under the Heritage Open Days banner in September 2024.
A new edition of the siddur.
The Religious Education programme funds a small new printing of the congregation's Shabbat siddur.
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