Orthodox Jews believe that all of the practices in the Torah which it is practical to obey must be obeyed without question.

Today nearly fourteen million Jewish people live all over the world. Approximately half of them live in the United States, one quarter live in Israel, and a quarter are still scattered around the world in countries in Europe, Russia, South America, Africa, Asia and other North American and Middle Eastern countries. Anyone born to a Jewish mother is considered a Jew. What do Jewish people believe? Phillips, Abel – A History of the Origins of the First Jewish Community in Scotland: Edinburgh, 1816 (1979)

Scotland's Tory leader pays tribute to Balfour Declaration

And I hope as well that perhaps from this November onwards [when the centenary of the Balfour Declaration will be marked], this year, will give us space in the public discourse to talk about how Israel is a force for good as a democratic country, which has a vibrant free press, that allows the sort of political debate that we take for granted, but citizens of all of its neighbours in the region don’t have that same luxury.” Deborah Andrews (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Pr. ISBN 1-55862-175-X . Retrieved 3 June 2010. Ms Conn adds: “We are still remembering the hostages at all of our social gatherings, yet no one else is talking about them. They’re never discussed in non-Jewish circles. They’re disregarded.” At the end of his sentence, the authorities brought Lord Gordon to court, where he was asked to remove his hat and swear to behave lawfully in the future. As a Jew, Lord Gordon refused to remove his head-covering. The testimony of two Orthodox Jews he brought with him to vouch for him in court was disregarded, and Lord Gordon was returned to prison, where he died the following year, age 41. 2. Ellis Island in Glasgow

The authors of When Scotland Was Jewish provide evidence that many of Scotland's national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were and are of Jewish descent, their ancestors coming from Scotland's allies, France and Spain. He added: “People in Scotland are more concerned with Celtic and Rangers, so racism towards other minority groups is not dwelt upon too much. For example, one so-called Scotland fan took to Facebook ahead of the Israel game to ask fellow supporters: “Is it OK to sing ‘We Hate England More Than Jews’?” Ms Switzer says: “I now have to be careful that I’m wearing nothing that would identify me as Jewish. I’ve been in a cafe openly selling badges saying ‘from the river to the sea’. Yet some people in these places know I’m Jewish and that we regard this as genocidal.”Discuss how protection by the crown could be both an advantage and disadvantage for the Jewish community. risen from under 6,000 in 1900 to 20,000. Glasgow and Edinburgh became hubs of Jewish religious, intellectual, and cultural life. The 1930s-1940s also child and Jonathan Arkush, the Board president, used his speech to thank the many dignitaries from the religious and political spheres who were in attendance. Daiches describes how this language was spoken by the band of itinerant salesmen known as "trebblers" who travelled by train to the coastal towns of Fife peddling their wares from battered suitcases. He notes that Scots preserves some Germanic words lost in standard English but preserved in Yiddish, for example "licht" for light or "lift" for air (German "Luft"). [48] [49]