During the Edinburgh Fringe, the city’s Royal Mile is home to street performers, acrobats — and Chabad.
The Strictly Orthodox movement has become an unlikely regular at the arts festival which attracts big crowds of locals and tourists from all over the world.
For the ninth year running, Edinburgh Chabad has been handing out kosher snacks and inviting Jewish visitors to lay tefillin and attend communal Shabbat dinners.
Rabbi Pinny Weinman and two volunteers — Menashe Trietel from Canada and Australian Berel Feldman — are manning a stall close to Edinburgh Castle, where performers distribute flyers for some of the 2,000-plus shows.
