I did a search for "Jewish Gordon" and "Jewish tartan" in the threads here on Xmarks, and got far more results than I have time to go through. As I mentioned earlier, this was discussed in 3 or more threads some years ago here, and in the course of them, one of the X Markers whose name escapes me, from Glasgow and of Jewish descent who grew up in what is or was the Jewish section of that city, mentioned that it was so common that when he saw some one wearing a Gordon tartan kilt there, he assumed they were Jewish. What is his name? Is he still active on X Marks? He married and American and moved to Montana, I believe it was. I enjoyed reading his posts.

In addition to the stories mentioned in this thread about the adoption of the Gordon name by Jews, there is another, that one of the Marquesses of Huntley established a scholarship, I believe it was, for Jews.

As to the allegedly official Jewish tartan that the good rabbi is promoting, it has been the subject of controversy since its beginning. Concurrent with, or just before, his introduction of it, a Jewish British magazine ran a contest for a Jewish tartan, and none of the 3 finalist choices were his. I remember I got the impression at the time that there was more to the dispute as to what should be an "official" Jewish tartan than met the eye.

One of the problems mentioned with an allegedly official Jewish tartan is that there is no governing authority---no chief of a clan, no legislative body, no general synod, no pope, no chief rabbi, etc----for Judaism or for Jews who could make the decision as to what tartan should be official, as is the custom. The rabbi in question seems to be of the opinion that merely registering his tartan with the STA is sufficient. Of course it isn't.