Watch us build our dream!

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Beit Tefilah

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Netilat Yadaim (Ritual Washing)
handbasin in the Foyer

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The beautiful stained glass windows
(designed and fabricated by Roman Halter)
are now installed at either side of the Ark

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Outer Doors of the Ark
in the Beit Knesset

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Kitchenette section of Youth Room

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Youth Room

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Upstairs Kitchenette

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Shower

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One of the Individual Offices...
of which there's one for the Rabbi,
Executive Director and
Director of Education

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Large Open Plan Office

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Kitchen - 3

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Kitchen - 2

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The Kitchen - 1

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Gan Alon Toilets...there
are two sets of these too!

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One of the Gan Alon Kitchenette Areas
...there is one in each classroom,
plus one other in the Gan corridor!

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Gan Alon Classroom

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Ground Floor Toilets

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Courtyard - Main Entrance view

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Seating Area in Courtyard

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Half of the Cloakroom

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Bride's Room...Parent's Room
First Aid...Quiet Room

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Beit Tefilah

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Beit Midrash

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Locker Area in the Foyer

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Corner section of Foyer

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Inlay for Ark in Beit Knesset

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Back of Beit Knesset
First Part of Dividing Wall Going Up

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Progress in the Foyer

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Panoramic View of the Building (if playing a little with the camera joins!)

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Foyer Back Wall

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Side View of the Building

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Foyer looking towards Main Entrance

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Corridor Linking Beit Midrash, Gan Alon and Main Staircase

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Beit Midrash

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Beit Tefilah

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The Foyer Outside the Beit Knesset

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Beit Knesset - December 2010

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Our designer Francesco Draisci chooses olive wood
with David Joseph for our sacred objects

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First glimpse of the Beit Knesset with the central skylight uncovered...

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Chair L

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Chair K

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Chair J

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Chair H

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Chair G

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Chair F

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Chair E

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Chair D

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Chair C

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Chair B

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Chair A

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Carrying the Flame: Rabbi Wittenberg's Walk from Frankfurt to Finchley

Rabbi Wittenberg's walk is raising sponsorship monies, some of which will be put towards the Nerot Tamid (Everlasting lights) in our new building.

To follow Rabbi Wittenberg's blog, click on www.carryingtheflame.org

To sponsor Rabbi Wittenberg and Mitzpah, click on www.justgiving.com/carryingtheflame

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Click here for a booklet that includes floor plans and other details on the new building

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...and another

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...and another stained glass window panel

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...one of the 10 stained glass window panels that will sit at either side of the Aron Kodesh in the Beit Knesset (produced by Roman Halter)

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...inside the Beit Tefilah

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...view from the courtyard into the Beit Midrash

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...the (temporary wording!) on the building's Foundation Stone

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Some of the NNLS lay and professional leaders are taken round the building for the first time

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...some more skylights are added

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...it's really starting to take shape

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...another sunny week on the building site

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...another week's progress

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...and yet more bricks are added

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...finally a sunny pic of the new building!

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...another week's progress

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...and a few more bricks are added

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Mid-March progress...

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...and some brickwork has now been added

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...and now we can see the windows quite clearly

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Parts of the roof are now installed...

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And yet more steel is added to the 2nd floor Beit Tefilah area...

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The mecano set continues to take shape!

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Photos from the same spot each week...19th February 2010

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Panoramic view of the site

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Photos from the same spot...Friday 12th February 2010

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...and the beginnings of the building's shell

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At last we get to see something 'concrete' for our efforts!

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Weekly photos from the same spot...week 16

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Exciting news: steel beams show shapes of things to come
Right now the building site seems to have taken a leap forward as the steel beams which will provide the skeleton of our new building have gone up. Cement mixers are lined up waiting outside the Sternberg Centre!

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Weekly photos from the same spot...week 15

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 13

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 12

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Weekly photos from the same spot...week 9

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 10

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Weekly photos from the same spot...week 8

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 8

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 7

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 6

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Time Capsule Ideas

Our time capsule burial ceremony is happening on Sunday 13th December. Time is running out for submission of your ideas for inclusion in the capsule. The deadline is 27th November, and ideas should be emailed to Graham Long at renegadespirit@btopenworld.com. All ideas welcome.

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Grant for Ground Source Heat Pump

We've just had confirmation of another grant towards our Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP). The Department of Energy and Climate Change have promised funds of just under £49,000. This brings our total external grants received for the GSHP to almost £80,000. Contractors have now started drilling 100m deep (yes 100m!) boreholes into the ground. This is stage 1 of the GSHP process.

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 5

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 4

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Construction gets underway

The builders have set up their sheds and fenced off our site for safety. The construction works started by clearing some contaminated earth and the foundations of the old caretaker's house. During half-term they dug a trench to install a drain which joins at the Akiva School.

They removed more earth and prepared the site for piling (a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure).

Drilling the ground followed to create the piled foundations.

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 3

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Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 2

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Here we go!

We’re delighted to announce that our builders, Allenbuild are commencing construction of our new building today.

The first stage will be piling the ground for the foundations. You’ll finally see a lot of activity on-site with huge machines preparing holes in the ground. This is the start of a 61 week programme.

This will be followed by the drilling of extremely deep bore holes for our ground source heat pump and conditions will be muddy for a while. This will help heat our new building and will reduce our CO2 emissions by up to 20%. We are very pleased to confirm that we’ve just had confirmation of a grant of £30,000 towards this renewable energy source from Big Lottery.