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| Bigwigs back plan for Jewish
centre |
A MULTI-MILLION pound Jewish community centre could come to Camden
if a campaign which kicks off in Hampstead on Monday at the Everyman
cinema is successful.
Backed by bigwigs from politics, business, journalism and the arts,
the centre is based on a similar project in New York and aims to
be a “welcoming place for anyone who associates with being
Jewish” and will house a swimming pool and nursery – although
no permanent home has yet been found for it.
On Monday Camden-based journalist David Aaranovitch will join former
home secretary and EU commissioner Lord Leon Brittan, former junior
health minister Edwina Currie and biographer Stephen Pollard for
a debate on the state of multi-culturalism in Britain after the
July bombings, as well as the potential for a Jewish prime minister.
A series of talks and events is planned to publicise the project,
which was launched by philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield and has
its temporary offices in Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill.
The project’s backers, who include former chief of the London
Jewish Cultural Centre in Hampstead, Allen Morgenthau, and PR guru,
Professor Julia Hobsbawm, have already decided that the centre will
be in north west London, but have yet to identify a site big enough
to house the nursery school, swimming pool and gym and auditorium
they want for the centre.
Camden’s large Jewish population and high profile Jewish institutions,
including the LJCC, the Jewish Museum, worldwide charity ORT and,
until recently, the Jewish Free School, mean it is well placed to
become permanent home to the centre.
Monday’s event starts at 8pm and costs £12.
Call 0870 0664777 for more information. |
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