Reflecting on Judaism

When the Ilford School Committee first approached the United Synagogue to help build the school, they refused on the grounds that they were already providing primary education through their part time Hebrew classes which met three times a week on synagogue premises. They believed that they should concentrate on secondary education which they provided through the JFS in Camden.

At that time I represented the local community on the London Board of Jewish Education, a sub-committee of the United Synagogue. When the building of the our school was well underway I approached them once again, at our committee’s request, and asked them to become involved in providing the Religious education in our school. This time, after long protracted discussions and negotiations, they agreed.

This involvement must have emphasised to them the importance of primary school education and as a result all the Jewish primary schools in which they have become involve since then is due, directly or indirectly, to the influence exerted on them by the Ilford Committee.

Ilford can be proud of its achievement.

Woolf Abrahams...