Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue (Norrice Lea) Orders of Service, London, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1968.

These orders of service are all from Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue, a constituent of the United Synagogue in London, known as “Norrice Lea” after the street in which it is located.  They include lists of the officers of the synagogue at that time, and of donors of buildings, rooms and windows. Hampstead Garden Suburb, in … Continue reading Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue (Norrice Lea) Orders of Service, London, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1968.

Chamishah Asar Bi’Shevat, the Tree’s New Year, by Rabbi Dr. I. Weinstock, London, 1943.

This little booklet, partly reproduced below, was published in London in 1943 by the Bachad Fellowship, then operating out of Woburn House in central London. Bachad (B'nei Akiva) was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name "to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for … Continue reading Chamishah Asar Bi’Shevat, the Tree’s New Year, by Rabbi Dr. I. Weinstock, London, 1943.