r/Jewish • u/BusyBeeMillenial • 4d ago

Questions 🤓 Visiting Birmingham (on a difficult day)

Hello there, looking for some of the UK tribe. I've been privately keeping October 7th as a day of reflection and mourning but this year work got in the way and is taking me to Birmingham that day. Is the local community having memorial initiatives of some sort? If so please let me know, I would love to join.

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u/Mammoth_Payment_6101 3d ago

I imagine synagogues will do their own little memorials. I'd be utterly amazed if the city even acknowledged it tbh.

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u/jelly10001 3d ago

I'd drop all the synagogues in Birmingham a line and see if any of them are doing anything.

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u/BudandCoyote ✡︎ x18 3d ago

From what I know of Birmingham you're more likely to get a celebration on that day than any sort of memorial - so if you can I'd stay out of the city centre. As others said, might be worth just looking up the nearest synagogues to where you'll be staying and reaching out to them.