Groningen Travel Forum

I am an international student who is taking a semester abroad in Groningen and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the jewish community in Groningen and whether there is available access to kosher meat. Any information that could help me out would be greatly appreciated.

I doubt there is an active Jewish community at Groningen.
The last activities I found dated from 2004 from the neighbouring province of Friesland with a community at Heerenveen.

I also got no results on restaurants with kosher food at Groningen.

Amsterdam offers what you want, maybe you can see if you can do your study there.

PJ

This is what i found in the phonebook of Groningen

Joods Maatchappelijk Werk > Meer: Sociaal-maatschappelijk werkNieuwe Ebbingestraat 46/A
9712NM Tel: 050 3132908

and there is a synagoge as well:
http://www.synagogegroningen.eu/
Hope this is helpful,

Paula

OK I did some more reading. The synagoge needs a lot of money to keep maintained. The small jewish community cannot raise enough funds and there are talks of selling the building to a society that owns and maintains more Groningen churches. Point of discussion is that the Jewish community does not consider the synagoge to be a church, but on the other hand can use all the money they can get.

The Jewish community was 2500 people, but was decimated in the second World War and much odf the surviving Jews left to Israel or Amsterdam after the war.

PJ

www.synagogegroningen.nl contact possible by way of this site
As far as I know part of the synagoge is still used by the (small)jewish community. There are expositions about (former) jewish life in Groningen. Sometimes concerts. The synagoge exists 100 years this year, and there are some jubilee-activities.