Brondesbury Park Mitzvah Day


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October 20, 2010
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Brondesbury Park Synagogue Mitzvah Day

Brondesbury Park Synagogue is inviting local people of all ages to join in with a range of activities for its third Mitzvah Day.

Brondesbury Park Synagogue Mitzvah Day Programme

1-4pm Sainsbury’s Willesden Green
• Staff the food drive stand. All donations will be taken to a local St Mungo’s shelter
• Donate food good to the food drive
• Drive the collected food to the local shelter (4-5pm)

2-3pm The park next to Brondesbury Park Synagogue on Brondesbury Park
• Bring a trowel and plant some bulbs

2-4pm Willesden Green Library
• Assist local librarians sorting out the backlog of books at Willesden Green Library
• Donate good quality 2nd hand books to be donated to the British Heart Foundation. (Drivers required to deliver books to NW3 4-5pm)
• Join in the Rhyme-time on a Chanukah theme for young families (3.15-4pm)

To register your interest of find out more about Brondesbury Park’s Mitzvah Day, please contact Julia Marcuson on 07972 189996.

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mattpryor

20 October, 2010 - 14:40

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Sounds great, best wishes for the day :-)

Avraham Reiss

20 October, 2010 - 14:52

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I can't help wondering where that synagoge is located. During the fities and early sixties I lived in Willesden and prayed regularly at Brondesbury Park synagogue. It was one of London's larger synagogues, holding several hundred people, but on a Friday night there was just about minyan, a 10-man quorum.

I emigrated to Israel in the early sixties, and came back in the mid- ninties for a visit with my wife, who is Israeli and was visiting England for the first time. Passing what was the Brondesbury synagogue I suddenly shouted at my brother to stopped the car, and started filming the site with my video camera.

My wife thought I'd gone crazy, because what she saw was the Center for Islamic Studies. "What on earth was that all about?" she asked me. "In that mosque, I spent hundreds of hours praying when I was a child", I told her!

I guess the current synagogue is located elsewhere, and would be much smaller, due to a reduction in the size of the local Jewish population.

Brondesbury Par...

21 October, 2010 - 12:08

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Hi Avraham,

It's great to read your post and your memories of Brondesbury Park shul from the old days. Things have changed quite a bit since then. The current Brondesbury Park shul is the result of a merger of three local shuls from the area that took place a bout 5 years ago. To learn more about the shul today please visit our website http://www.bpark.org/ and please visit us in person next time you visit London. With best wishes. Julia Marcuson

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