788 Remuera Road

The photo
archive of 788

Every photograph here is recorded with its date, people, event, photographer, source and rights where those are known.

A crowd gathered outside the Raye Freedman Library building at 788 Remuera Road — 788 Remuera Road, the whole community outside.

788 Remuera Road.

The white weatherboard front of the Raye Freedman Library at 788 Remuera Road, decorated with colourful Chanukah bunting — Chanukah bunting on the front of 788. The building dresses up when the community does.

The front, at Chanukah.

Boys and adults standing with a Torah scroll in front of the ark, surrounded by bookshelves — Inside: bookshelves, a small ark, a Torah.

The gable and the round window.

The white weatherboard front of the Raye Freedman Library at 788 Remuera Road — The front of 788 Remuera Road, dressed for Chanukah.

The door.

Black and white portrait of Raye Freedman, smiling, wearing a cameo necklace — Raye Freedman.

Raye Freedman.

The room that carries her name.

The interior of the Raye Freedman Library: timber cathedral ceiling, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, the ark and the bimah — Inside the Raye Freedman Library — the timber ceiling, the books, the ark.

The Raye Freedman Library.

A man covering his eyes in prayer while holding an open prayer book — The Shema, said the way it has always been said.

Learning, midweek.

Men seated around a long table at 788 watching a projected class — Tuesday night class, well after dinner.

Tuesday night, after dinner.

Children and teenagers working through Hebrew School workbooks around a large wooden table — Sunday morning, the long table, everyone working.

The Torah of Chabad New Zealand.

A community audience seated watching a projected screening at 788 beneath a JewQ Torah Championship banner — A full room, lights down, JewQ night.

A full room, lights down.

Two girls grating food onto plates at a covered table — Preparing for a festival, hands first.

JewQ.

A large crowd of families gathered outside the Raye Freedman Library at 788 Remuera Road beneath blue and yellow balloons, a rabbi addressing them — Auckland, the whole community outside 788 — balloons, kids on the pavement, nobody in a hurry.

An Auckland gathering.

Children painting at a long table surrounded by library bookshelves — Hebrew School, painting week.

Hebrew School, most weeks of the year.

Men in tallit and tefillin reading from prayer books around a wooden table at 788 — A weekday minyan, three men and a long table.

A weekday minyan, before work.

Three girls cooking together at a kitchen bench — Kosher cooking, in the kitchen at 788.

Kosher New Zealand.

An older man wearing tefillin standing at the bimah with his eyes closed — Tefillin, quietly, at the bimah.

Tefillin, quietly, at the bimah.

A child in a kippah crouching on paving stones, drawing on a sheet of paper — Outside, working on something important.

A first Hebrew letter.

A young girl pointing to Hebrew text in an open prayer book and reading aloud — Reading Hebrew, finger on the line.

Reading Hebrew, finger on the line.

A girl and a boy holding miniature Torah scrolls in front of the ark — Two small people, two small Torahs.

Two small people, two small Torahs.

A teacher explaining Hebrew letters to two young girls at a Hebrew School table — The alef-bet, explained twice, patiently.

The alef-bet, explained twice, patiently.

A rabbi and a congregant standing together in the sanctuary at 788 — In the shul at 788, after davening.

Friday evening.

A tray of freshly baked sesame-topped challah loaves — Challah, out of the oven, Friday.

Challah, before sundown.

People preparing vegetables together around a kitchen bench at 788 — The kitchen, a few hours before everyone arrives.

A table.

A large group of smiling women gathered together indoors at 788 — The women of the community, after a cooking evening.

The women of the community.

Children playing on a wooden deck at night beside a large wooden menorah — Chanukah on the deck, long after dark.

Chanukah, and the rest of the calendar.

Men in tallitot holding lulav and etrog around a wooden bimah with a Torah scroll during Sukkot — Sukkot morning, lulav and etrog, everyone standing.

Sukkot, lulav in hand.

Children and adults gathered around a fire pit at night toasting marshmallows — Lag BaOmer, marshmallows, glow sticks, late bedtime.

Lag BaOmer, well past bedtime.

A man in tallit and tefillin lifting an open Torah scroll beneath the timber ceiling at 788 — Hagbah — the Torah lifted, under the timber beams.

Hagbah, under the timber beams.

A procession.

A group of young travellers gathered around a Shabbat table at 788 — Israeli backpackers, a long table, a very late night.

Somebody's first Shabbat in the country.

Two men smiling together, one wearing tefillin and a tallit — Somebody's first pair of tefillin.

Arriving.

Three people smiling together on a sunlit veranda after a service — After services, nobody in a hurry.

Nobody in a hurry to leave.

A man in a hat looking across Auckland harbour towards the city skyline at sunset — Auckland, from across the water.

Auckland, from across the water.

The biography of an address