Opening Jewish Blind & Disabled’s lastest development in Bushey Heath, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said “there cannot be anything more precious than the dedication of such a facility”.
The £6.7 million Dyna and Fala Weinstock Wing, adjacent to JBD’s existing Cecil Rosen Court building, is the charity’s eighth development across London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
It incorporates 15 one-bedroom and four two-bedroom apartments and communal areas such as a rooftop terrace. The first tenants moved in before the formal opening and the flats will gradually be filled over the coming months.
Noting that the opening coincided with Yom Hashoah, Rabbi Mirvis observed that the best response to the Holocaust was that Jews lived on, both physically and with Jewish values. The quality of chesed, or loving kindness, was demonstrated in JBD’s work, he said.
