Golders Green Synagogue £3m redevelopment and plans for Rimon Primary School

The Golders Green Synagogue management has reported on the progress of its £3 million redevelopment project and has updated congregants on plans for the Rimon Primary School set to open on the synagogue site in September.

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Search for head is Dunn and dusted

Zoe Dunn will be the founding headteacher of Rimon Jewish Primary, the free school opening in Golders Green in September.

Currently head of the junior section at the Royal School in Hampstead, Cambridge-educated Dr Dunn began her teaching career in the state sector in Kent.

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Search for head is Dunn and dusted

Zoe Dunn will be the founding headteacher of Rimon Jewish Primary, the free school opening in Golders Green in September.

Currently head of the junior section at the Royal School in Hampstead, Cambridge-educated Dr Dunn began her teaching career in the state sector in Kent.

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'Green' school attracts interest

Plans for the Rimon Jewish Primary School set to open in Golders Green in September were outlined to two dozen parents of prospective pupils at drop-in meetings last week.

Governors' chair Rachel Clark said some of those present were among the 150-plus on the school's mailing list.

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Men of spiel

Sinai Synagogue youth club in Leeds won RSY-Netzer's annual Purim spiel-off with a skit mixing the nature series Frozen Planet with the sleuthing of Sherlock Holmes.

Nine Reform synagogues contested the challenge of talent and wit, held in Golders Green.

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Eggthrowers charged

Four men have been charged following a spate of alleged "drive-by" egg-throwing attacks which targeted Jews.

The charges follow the incidents in December last year in Hendon and Golders Green, north west London, when eggs were allegedly thrown from passing vehicles at religious Jews walking in the areas.

Mohammed Khalfia and Mohammed Jawad, both of Wembley, Haider Al-Fardan, of Kingsbury, an

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Kisharon centres could shut in service revamp

Learning disability charity Kisharon could close day centres in Hackney and Golders Green to facilitate users' greater integration within the mainstream community.

Kisharon chief executive Bev Jacobson said the charity had been given around a year by Hackney Council to examine ways the services offered by the Stamford Hill day centres could be provided by alternative means.

Councils in north

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Kisharon goes shopping in job market

Seven boys aged 17-to-19 from Kisharon Day School for pupils with learning disabilities have begun a work experience project at Sainsbury's in Golders Green, introducing them to employment.

They are helping out at the store once a week. They are treated like members of the team, using the staff canteen and being invited to employees' meetings.

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Golders Green hit-and-run

A husband and wife were recovering in hospital this week after being run over as they walked home from a synagogue service.

The couple, who have not been named, were struck by a slow-moving silver Toyota in Gainsborough Gardens, Golders Green, at around 5.20pm last Friday.

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Golders Green free school is set for synagogue site

The steering committee for the Golders Green Jewish Primary School is in advanced negotiations with the United Synagogue to use land at the back of Golders Green Synagogue for its premises.

GGJPS, one of the government's free schools, will open its reception class in September.

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Pub drinks to licence

A Golders Green pub will be celebrating the New Year with a kosher licence.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Castle, on the junction between Cricklewood Lane and Finchley Road, announced plans to rebrand as a Jewish venue.

For New Year's Eve revellers, its restaurant will be under Federation supervision.

The restaurant will serve kosher versions of pub staples, from an English breakfa

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Jail for gang of four who targeted Golders Green

A gang of squatters who burgled the Golders Green area of Barnet on an "industrial scale" have been sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court.

Florin Pacuretu, 21, received two years and eight months in prison; Constantin Parcuretu, 23, two years four months; Catain Mogos, 25, three years and four months; and ninteen-year-old Victor Furcila received a 14-month sentence.

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Third free school

Education Secretary Michael Gove has approved the third Jewish free school in the London area.

Subject to the signing of a funding agreement, the Golders Green Jewish Primary will accept its first 28 pupils in September 2012.

Presided over by Golders Green Synagogue's Rabbi Harvey Belovski, the school's ethos will be "a local primary for an international city.

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'Open-minded' school planners test demand

A group of parents is exploring the possibility of setting up an "open-minded traditional" Jewish free school in north London.

They have launched a survey to gauge interest in the idea of opening the school somewhere in Finchley, Whetstone or Woodside Park.

Matt Plen, director of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues, is one of the parents.

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Shana Tova - give blood

The NHS has launched a Rosh Hashanah campaign to encourage community members to give blood.

Large posters with the Shana Tova greeting have been hung in prominent sites in Edgware, Mill Hill, Stanmore, Golders Green and Elstree.

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