Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich
Rabbi Tanya was born in Minsk, Belarus, where, in 1998 she attained her first MA in the History of Art and Music.
She began her career working in various capacities for the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ).
She served the Nottingham Liberal Synagogue
(formerly Nottingham Progressive Jewish Community) as minister from about 2007 (becoming full time upon her ordination from Leo Baeck College in 2009) until 2021.
She then become minister of the
Liberal Synagogue Elstree, Hertfordshire,
until November 2022, when she joined the
Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue,
northwest London, serving as a rabbi there until present (May 2023).
(Online reports and congregations' websites.)
Rabbi Dr. Elisheva Salamo
American
Rabbi Salamo was awarded a bachelors degree from Reed College, Portland, Oregan, a masters degree
from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut and rabbinical ordination
from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
She served as a rabbi, teacher and youth leader in the United States, South Africa and at the Liberal Jewish Community of Geneva, Switzerland
(June 2022-July 2023).
In August 2023, she took up residence in York upon her appointment as the first rabbi of the
York Liberal Synagogue,
becoming York's first resident rabbi since the Jewish community was wiped out in a pogrom more than 800 years ago.
(Congregation's website and press reports.)
Rabbi Dr. Georg Salzberger
See under The Belsize Square Synagogue (formerly the New Liberal Jewish Congregation).
Rabbi Harold Irving Saperstein
(9 December 1910 - 16 November 2001)
New York born Rabbi Saperstein was ordained in 1935. He served as the minister of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, Long Island
(1933 to 1980, initially as a student rabbi), during which time he spent short periods as
an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1957, 1980-81, 1982-83)
and later assisted other synagogues in the New York area.
Rabbi Elizabeth (Eli) Tikvah Sarah
Rabbi Sarah was ordained in 1989
at Leo Baeck College, London. She served as minister of Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue
(now Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue) (1989-1994);
Director of Programmes for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain and Deputy Director of the Sternberg Centre (1994-97); Chair of the Leo Baeck College Rabbinic
In-Service Training Team (1996-2002); a Leo Baeck College tutor and lecturer, teaching
'Classical Hebrew' and also 'Spirituality' (1997-2002);
part time
rabbi of Leicester Progressive Jewish Community (1998-2000) and minister of
Brighton & Hove
Progressive Synagogue (2000-2021, and thereafter emeritus
rabbi).
(Rabbi Sarah's profile on Liberal Judaism's website, accessed
20 June 2021.)
Rev Ernest Konrad Sawady
(27 February 1916 - 14 August 1956)
Rev. Sawady arrived in England from Berlin as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He obtained a BA in Psychology from the University of London and was minister of the
St. George's Settlement Synagogue (1946-1956), dying suddenly in office while in Austria.
(Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, p.866, Obituary
in AJR Information, September 1956, p. 9 and JYB
listings)
Rabbi Fabian Sborovsky
See under Menorah Synagogue, Cheshire Reform Congregation.
Rabbi Adrian Michael Schell
Frankfurt-born Rabbi Schell studied at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam/Berlin, where he
received his rabbinic ordination in 2013.
He served as the senior rabbi of Bet David Progressive Jewish Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa (2014-2020)
and was then appointed minister of
The Wimbledon Synagogue, London (November 2020 to present -
March 2025).
(Congregation's website.)
Rabbi Hermann Schreiber
(21 August 1882 - 27 September 1954)
Rabbi Schrieber, who was born in the former German town of Schrimm (now Śrim in Poland), served as rabbi in Potsdam until 1938, when his synagogue
was destroyed during Kristallnacht. In 1939, after being held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he managed to flee to London and was
an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1941).
He is buried at the Jewish Weissensee Cemetery in Berlin, having died during a visit to Germany.
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Meyer Schiller-Szenessy
(1820 - 11 March 1890)
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Meyer Schiller-Szenessy was born in Altofen, Budapest
and received a Ph.D from the University of Jena before studying to
become a rabbi. He was a Hungarian nationalist and supported Kossuth in
the 1848 uprising against Austrian rule (adopting the Magyar name
Szenessy), was captured, sentenced to death, but escaped to England via
Trieste and
Ireland. In 1851, he was appointed minister of the recently re-united
orthodox synagogue in Manchester, the
Manchester United Synagogue.
However, he came into conflict with Chief Rabbi N. Adler, and in 1856,
although remaining traditional orthodox, he accepted the appointment as
minister of Manchester's newly-formed reform synagogue, the
Manchester Congregation of British Jews,
resigning in 1860 to pursue an academic career in Cambridge, where he
died in 1890. (Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, p.873
and The Manchester Congregation of British Jews 1857-1957 by Rabbi P.S.
Goldberg, 1957.)
Rev. Gabriel Schulman
See Rev. J. Shulman
Rev. D. J. Seligman
See under Birmingham Progressive Synagogue (formerly Birmingham Liberal Jewish Synagogue).
Rev. Y. Shabatay
See under Manchester Reform Synagogue (formerly Manchester Congregation of British Jews).
Rabbi Zahavit Shalev
Rabbi Shalev received her ordination from Leo Baeck College, London, in July 2019. She serves
(as of January 2020) as full-time assistant rabbi
of New North London Synagogue (from September 2019,
but where she also previously served seven years as a student rabbi)
and part time (sole) rabbi of Buckhurst Hill Masorti Synagogue (from 2019).
(Rabbi Shalev's LinkedIn account.)
Rabbi Chaim Shalom
See under Menorah Synagogue, Cheshire Reform Congregation.
Rabbi Irit Shillor
See under Harlow Jewish Community.
Rev. J. Shulman
Rev. J. Shulman (also known as Rev. Gabriel Schulman) served as assistant minister of
Bradford Reform Synagogue
from 1903 to 1906, and then departed to the United States
(Tradition and Change by Kershen & Romain).
Rabbi Sheila Shulman
(18 October 1936 - 25 October 2014)
Brooklyn-born Rabbi Shulman was ordained in 1989, being one of the first two lesbian rabbis to be
ordained in the United Kingdom. She was the founder of London's gay
and lesbian synagogue,
Beit Klal Yisrael Synagogue
(BKYS)
and served as its rabbi from 1990 until about 2007 and was thereafter its emeritus rabbi until about 2011.
She also served as a rabbi at
Finchley Reform Synagogue (c.2000-c.2005,
initially part-time, then as half-time Associate Rabbi, then part-time again).
(JYB listings,
Biography -
LGBTQ Religious Archives Network and tributes to Rabbi Shulman on BKYS's website)
Rabbi Cantor Gershon Silins
Rabbi Silins was ordained as a cantor in about 1990 and holds a masters degree and honorary doctorate in
Sacred Music from the School of Sacred Music HUC-JIA. In July 2019, he
was ordained as a rabbi by Leo Baeck College, London on 7 July 2019, becoming Liberal/Reform Judaism�s first rabbi cantor.
He had served as cantor of Temple Sinai Congregation in Toronto, Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York,
Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
Beth Emet The Free Synagogue in Evanston, Illinois and Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland before coming to Britain.
After coming to Britain he has served as minister/cantor of Manchester Liberal Jewish Community
(part time, 2017) and then as part of the Rabbinic Team of Liberal Judaism serving as rabbi
for the
Norwich Liberal Jewish Community (NLJC), Norwich (part-time c.2019)
as well as the Liberal communities in
Lincolnshire and
Stevenage.
In January 2021, he was appointed assistant rabbi of
the West London Synagogue,
serving until 2023.
In December 2022, he joined
The Liberal Synagogue Elstree
as interim rabbi, serving until at least 2025.
(Profile on WLS's website and JYBs listings.)
Rabbi Henry Phillips Silverman
(15 October 1894 - November 1979)
Portsea-born Rabbi Silverman served as minister of the orthodox
Oxford Road Hebrew Congregation, Manchester (dates not currently known),
Rab. of Temple B'nai Israel and People's Temple Bethel, Elmira, New York (1923-1935),
minister of the Jewish Community of Jamaica (1935-1965) and (post-retirement) minister of
Maidenhead Synagogue (1965 to c1968).
(JYB listings and "Who's Who" entries, Geni report)
Rabbi Dr. Reuven (Robert) Malcolm Silverman
Oxford-born Rabbi Dr. Silverman served as minister of Mikeve Israel Emanuel Synagogue, Curacao (1969-1971),
an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1974),
assistant minister of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue (1974-1977)
and minister of Manchester Reform Synagogue (1977 to present -
February 2022).
(Manchester Reform Synagogue website, JYB listings and "Who's Who" entries ).
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Rev. Laurence Mark Simmons, BA, LLB
(1852-1900)
London-born Rev. L.M. Simmons was educated at the City of London School and studied
at the the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau, Germany, under the terms of a
Ministers' Training Fund of the West London (Reform) Synagogue. Although
"orthodox" and conservative in his religious duties as a Jew, he served as minister of
Manchester Reform Synagogue (formerly Manchester Congregation of British Jews)
from 1877 until his premature death in 1900, and was highly regarded
throughout the community.
He was the father of the
Rev. Vivian George Simmons. He was
buried in the Jewish cemetery in Whitefield, Manchester, and
representatives of all the synagogues and communal organisations of
Manchester were present at the sevice preceding his burial.
(Rev. P.S. Goldberg's The Manchester Congregation of British Jews, 1957, pp. 45-59.)
M. Simons
M. Simons was hon. president and lay minister of
Ealing Liberal Synagogue (c.1949-c.1964).
Rabbi Leslie Sirtes
See under
Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue (formerly Brighton & Hove Liberal Synagogue).
Rabbi Dr. Frank Dabba Smith
California-born Rabbi Smith received his rabbinic ordination from the Leo Baeck College, London. He served as assistant rabbi of
Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue (1994-1997) and
then as minister of
Mosaic Liberal Synagogue
(formerly Harrow & Wembley Progressive Synagogue) (1997-2019).
(JYB listings and Mosaic Liberal Synagogue's website.)
Rabbi David Soetendorp
Rabbi Soetendorp served as minister for over thirty years at the
Bournemouth Reform Synagogue (1972-2005)
and, following his retirement, was appointed part-time minister of Hatch End Masorti Synagogue
(now the Mosaic Masorti Synagogue) (2007-2008).
(JYB listings and JC report of 15 June
2007.)
Rabbi Dr. Frederick Solomon
(previously known as Dr Frederick K. "Fritz" Solomonski)
(1899 - 1980)
Berlin-born Dr. Solomonski (m. Margot) fled Germany to Britain in 1938.
Also an accomplished artist, he served as minister of the
West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue
(from about 1946) and
Leigh-on-Sea Liberal Jewish Congregation (now Southend & District Reform Synagogue)
(probably from about 1948), in both instances until about 1954. He emigrated to the United States in 1954 and was appointed as minister to several US congregations,
including Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, Pennsylvania (1954-1957), and Temple B�nai Israel
in Laconia, New Hampshire (1960-1963),
as well as Temple Beth Israel in Vedado, Havana, Cuba (c.1957-1960).
(Rabbi Frederick Solomon Papers, JYB listings and JC report of 15 June
2007.)
Rabbi Mark L. Solomon
Australian-born Rabbi Solomon studied for the rabbinate at the Lubavitcher Yeshivah Gedolah in Melbourne and Kfar Chabad in Israel,
then at Sydney University (earning as BA (Hons) in English). He came to Britain in 1988 to study at Jews' College, London, where he
received smicha in 1991 and served as minister of
Watford Affiliated (United) Synagogue
(1990-1992). He then moved from Orthodoxy to Liberal Judaism and
received an MA in Jewish Studies at Leo Baeck College, where he subsequently taught. He
has served as minister/rabbi of
West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London (1992-2000),
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood (2000-2009),
Manchester Liberal Jewish Community
(part time, 2010-2014),
Sukkat Shalom - the Edinburgh Liberal Community Synagogue
(part-time, 2009 to present - January 2025),
Leicester Liberal Jewish Congregation
(part-time 2014 to present - July 2019)
(Profile on Liberal Judaism's website and JYBs listings.)
S. Solomons
S. Solomons's was assistant minister of
North London Liberal Synagogue
in about 1947/48 and was also chairman of the congregation from about
1938 to about 1947. It appears to have
subsequently served as minister of
Southgate & District Liberal Synagogue (now Southgate Progressive Synagogue) (c.1948-c.1956).
(JYB listings.)
Rev. Samuel Isaac Solomons
Served both Orthodox and Non-Orthodox congregations - see
Rev. Samuel Isaac Solomons in Orthodox section.
Rabbi Dr Frederick K. "Fritz" Solomonski -
See
Rabbi Dr. Frederick Solomon
Rabbi Benjamin (Benji) Stanley
London-born Rabbi Stanley was ordained in 2013.
He served as assistant rabbi of the West London Synagogue
(2013-2014), "Rabbi for Young Adults" at Reform Judaism (2014-17)
and minister of the
Westminster Synagogue (2017 to present -
January 2020).
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Elihu Starrels
(5 December 1895 - April 1984)
US-born Rabbi Dr. Starrels
studied at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati and served congregations in New Orleans, Louisiana and Lincoln, Nebraska, prior to
being appointed "third minister" of
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Woods (1928-1933) and
assisted greatly in the establishment of the
West Central Liberal Jewish Congregation, frequently leading the services.
He then served as minister of
North Western Reform Synagogue (1933-1938). He
returned to the US in 1938 to serve as minister of several U.S. congregations.
(JYB Listings and A Place to Call Home by Pam Fox, 2011.)
Rabbi Chaim Stern
(1930 - 2001)
New York born Rabbi Stern MA
studied at the New York branch of the Hebrew Union College and was ordained in 1958. He served as rabbi of Temple Shalom, New Jersey (1958-1962) and
several other United States
congregations. In 1962, he was appointed as associate minister of the
Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. John's Wood, London,
becoming acting senior minister in 1963 until 1964
and was subsequently associate rabbi of the
Westminster Synagogue (c.1967-c.1968).
("A place to Call My Jewish Home" by Pam Fox, 2011, p.415. JYBs listings and Jewish Virtual Library
obituary.)
Rabbi David-Yehuda Stern
Rabbi D-Y Stern grew up in Hendon,
northwest London
and holds a master�s degree in Jewish Education from the London School
of Jewish Studies. In July 2022, he received rabbinic ordination
from the Leo Baeck College, London, and joined the rabbinic team at
Radlett Reform Synagogue,
Hertfordshire, serving until present (June 2023) (Congregation's website.)
Ass. Minister M. Stern
Rev. Stern served as assistant minister of Manchester Congregation of British Jews
(Manchester Reform Synagogue) in and about 1874,
although his exact term of office is not currently known. (Jewish Directory
for 1874)
Rabbi Paul Moses Strasko
See under
Sinai Synagogue, Leeds.
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Rabbi Dr. Joseph Strauss
(1845 - 1922)
Rabbi Dr. Strauss was born in Berlichingen, Wuerbeinberg, Germany and educated at Stuttgart Royal Gymnasium.
He was ordained as a rabbi in 1870 and shortly thereafter obtained an MA in medieval history and modern philosophy and was awarded a PhD.
He served the Bradford Reform Synagogue,
Yorkshire,
(then known as the Bradford Congregation of British and Foreign Jews) as its first rabbi from 1873 to 1922.
He was an enthusiastic Zionist and founded the Bradford Zionist Society and was provincial VP of the English Zionist Federation.
(Joseph Strauss 1845-1922 on BradfordJewish website.)
Rabbi Celia Surget
Rabbi Surget, who grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, studied the history of
religions, Hebrew and philosophy at the University of Geneva and began
her rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College, later transferring to Leo
Baeck College, London, where she received her rabbinic ordination in 2007.
On graduating, she spent four years working for the MJLF Mouvement Juif Liberal de France in Paris, where she worked both as a congregational Rabbi and as Director of Education.
She was France's second female rabbi. She was subsequently appointed associate rabbi of
Radlett Reform Synagogue (2011-2021),
and was chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis and Cantors UK,
moving in May 2021, to take a post at Congregation Albert, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
(Congregation's website and JYB report.)
Rev. F. Susman
See under Liverpool Reform Synagogue (formerly Liverpool Liberal Synagogue).
Rabbi Dr. Jacqueline (Jackie) Tabick
Dublin-born Rabbi Jacqueline Tabick, the wife of Rabbi Larry Tabick, was ordained as Britain's first female rabbi in 1975.
She served as associate minister of the West London Synagogue (1975-1999),
minister of North West Surrey Synagogue, Weybridge (1998-2013)
and as part-time (temporary) minister of South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue (2015-2016).
She lead the Shabbat and Festival services at London's West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue
from 2014
until its closure in 2022, and thereafter frequently leads the services
of the congregation's Chavurah Group until the present (December 2023).
(Websites of North West Surrey and the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogues
and its Chavurah Group.)
Rabbi Larry Alan Tabick
American-born Rabbi Tabick, BA, MA, FLBC, the husband of Rabbi Jacqueline Tabick, was ordained in 1976.
He served as rabbi of Shir Hayim - Hampstead Reform Jewish Community (1976-81, 1990 to
December 2017),
as assistant minister of Middlesex New Synagogue, now Mosaic Reform Synagogue (1981-86),
as associate minister of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue (1986-1990),
as an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1990)
and as part-time rabbi of Leicester Progressive Jewish Community (1994-98).
("Who's Who" entries, listings in JYBs, Shir Hayim's website
and twitter account.)
Rabbi Roni Tabick
Rabbi Tabick
MA, the son of Rabbi Larry Tabick and Rabbi Jacqueline Tabick, was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York,
in 2015. He has served as rabbi of
New Stoke Newington Shul (2015
until
present - March 2019) and
was an Assistant Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue
(2015 until about January 2019). Rabbi Tabick holds a masters degree in Ancient Judaism
from Oxford University. (Biography on New Stoke Newington Shul's
website, data formerly on New North London's synagogues's website and
press reports.)
Rabbi Lev Taylor
Rabbi Taylor
grew up in Reading, Berkshire and studied at Warwick University. In July
2022, he received rabbinic ordination from the Leo Baeck College,
London, and was appointed junior rabbi of the South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue
(now known as Oaks Lane Reform Synagogue),
serving until present (September 2023).
(Congregation's website.)
Rabbi Uri Themal
See under
Sinai Synagogue, Leeds.
Rabbi Matthew Turchin
Rabbi Turchin (m. Avi) grew up in the United States.
He served as a teaching assistant at Temple Sinai of Glendale, California.
He later became involved with Orthodox Judaism, studying in Israel and graduating from Yeshiva University in New York with degrees in Philosophy and Jewish Studies.
He later earned an MA degrees from Rosemont College in primary education and literacy, with a focus as a Reading Specialist.
He was subsequently involved in religion school teaching in the Conservative Movement, including Park Avenue Synagogue and Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan.
He left his teaching position and moved to London to pursue rabbinic
training at Leo Baeck College in 2019.
In July 2024, he was appointed appointed assistant rabbi of
the West London Synagogue,
serving until the present (October 2024).
(Profile on WLS's website.)
Rabbi André Ungar
Hungarian-born Rabbi Ungar served as
assistant minister of the West London Synagogue
(1952-1955) and was then appointed minister of the Temple Israel congregation in Port Elizabeth, South Africa but was expelled in 1956 by the South African authorities for his decrying of apartheid.
He then served as minister of the
St. Georges Settlement Synagogue (1956-1957).
(JYB listing, Jewish Standard
press report 19 February 2010 and
biography)
Rev. Moss (Moses) Henriques Valentine
(10 February 1842 - 10 January 1920)
Rev Valentine
(m. Sarah, d.1891) served as chazan of the Manchester Congregation of British Jews (Manchester Reform Synagogue)
from about 1896 until about 1921. He was the brother of
Rev. Judah Henriques Valentine
of Manchester's Spanish and Portuguese Congregation.
(Synagogue Council of Founders' minutes; JYB listings;
and online research.)
Rabbi Harold Vallins
(6 April 1941 - 2 June 2009)
London-born Rabbi Vallins was ordained by Leo Baeck College in 1970 and served as minister of
Bournemouth Reform Synagogue (1970-1972).
In 1981, he moved to Melbourne, Australia and in 1998, he joined the Jews for Jesus Movement.
(JYB listings and online
obituary.)
Rabbi Werner Van Der Zyl
(11 September 1902 - 10 April 1984)
German-born Rabbi Van der Zyl was ordained in 1933 and had been rabbi of two congregations in Berlin prior seeking refuge in Britain.
He served as senior minister of
North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, Golders Green (1943-1958)
and as senior minister of the West London Synagogue
(1958-1968).
Rabbi Kath Vardi
Rabbi Vardi, who was ordained in 2017, has served as minister of
the
North West Surrey Synagogue
from 2017 to present (August 2022).
(Congregation's website.)
Rabbi Erlene Wahlhaus
See under Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue (formerly Southgate and District Reform Synagogue).
Rabbi Charles Wallach
(c.1951 - 23 August 2020)
Rabbi Wallach (m. Marilyn) was born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa and
received his ordination as a rabbi from Leo Baeck College, London in
1975. He served as rabbi of the United Progressive Jewish Congregation
of Johannesburg (1975-1977), Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue (1977-1988),
Temple David Congregation of Perth, Australia (1988-1995), Bet Menorah
Congregation, Pretoria, South Africa (2000-2002), Temple Emanuel
Congregation, Johannesburg (2003-2007) and
Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue (2008-2012)
and, at other times, acted as a self-employed rabbi. (Rabbi
Wallach's LinkedIn profile and obituary dated 24 September 2020 on
Reform Judaism's website.)
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
US-born Rabbi Weiman-Kelman was ordained in 1979. He was as
assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue
(1981-1982) and subsequently moved to Israel and founded Jerusalem's Kehilat Kol Haneshama in 1985.
Rabbi Chaim Weiner
Rabbi Weiner was ordained in 1989 from the Schechter Institute of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem.
He was National Director of NOAM in Israel for three years (1988-1991)
before becoming minister of
Edgware Masorti Synagogue (1991-1998). He
then followed
Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs as Rabbi of the
New London Synagogue
(2000-2005). He has been Scholar in Residence at the
New North London Synagogue,
Finchley since at least 2007 until present (October 2022). (Profile formerly on New London Synagogue's website
and communication from New North London Synagogue.)
Rev. Dr. Isaac Weiner
Rev. Weiner from Leipzig served as minister of
Manchester Reform Synagogue (formerly Manchester Congregation of British Jews)
from 1873 until 1877, his term of office ending as a result of his suffereing from mental disorder.
Rabbi David Wilfond
See under The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, London.
Rabbi Mark Winer
Rabbi Winer, MBE, PhD, DD, (b. 1942, Utah), was ordained in 1970 and served
as a congregational rabbi for some thirty years in the United States (Connecticut
and New York State), becoming rabbi emeritus of Kol Ami Congregation, White
Plains, New York in 1998. He then moved to London and to serve as senior
minister of the West London Synagogue
(1998-2010).
Rev. Abraham Wolf
See under
Manchester Reform Synagogue (formerly Manchester Congregation of British Jews).
Rabbi Anna Wolfson (previously Posner)
Rabbi Anna grew up in Nottingham
and following university was a movement worker for LJY Netzer and an educator for the Netzer gap year program in Israel.
She attended Leo Baeck College, London, where she was ordained in the summer of 2020, and served as the
rabbi for
Beit Klal Yisrael,
west London, and
Norwich Liberal Jewish Congregation
(in both cases, from 2020 to 2021), and as the Chaplain for Progressive Jewish Students. In January 2022,
she was appointed Development Rabbi of the
Mosaic Jewish Community
(now in Stanmore), a unique position working across the three Mosaic
congregations - Liberal, Masorti and Reform, while specifically spending
one quarter of her time dedicated to the Mosaic Liberal Synagogue.
(Rabbi Wolfson's profile on the Mosaic Jewish Community's website.)
Cantor Tamara Wolfson
New York born
Cantor Wolson received her cantorial ordination in May 2018. She served as cantor of
Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue
(NPLS) and as spiritual leader of
Kehilla North London (formerly North London Progressive Jewish Community), Stoke Newington (in
both instances from July 2018 until 2020) and was subsequently appointed
cantor of
North Western Reform Synagogue
(NWRS), Alyth Gardens, Golders Green, London (2020 to present -
January 2021).
(NPLS's, Kehilla North London's and NWRS's websites.)
Rabbi Alexandra Wright
Rabbi Wright, who studied at Exeter University and initially trained as
a teacher, was ordained at Leo Baeck College in 1986. She had served initially as an associate minister of
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue
(LJS), St. John's Wood, London (1986-1989) and was subsequently the
minister of Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue (now Radlett Reform Synagogue) (1990-2003) before
returning to The Liberal Jewish Synagogue to assume the position of Senior Minister of that congregation (March 2004 to present -
January 2021).
("A Place to Call My Jewish Home", 2011 by Pam Fox, pp.183-4 and Rabbi Wright's profile on
LJS's website, last accessed
4 January 2021.)
Cantor Cheryl Wunch
See under North Western Reform Synagogue.
Rabbi M. Yehudai
Rabbi Yehudai served as minister of the Newcastle Reform Synagogue (c.1991-c.1994).
(JYB listings.)
Mr. David Young
David Young has served as lay minister and teacher at the
Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue
from 1988 until present (March 2024).
(Communication from the congregation.)
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
Rabbi Young-Somers was ordained in 2009
and served as a rabbi at the West London Synagogue
(2009-2013). She then joined The Movement for Reform Judaism as a community
educator
before being appointed as one of the rabbinical team of
Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue
(from April 2020).
Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet
Rabbi Zagoria-Moffet (m. Mikayla) has served as rabbi of
St Albans Masorti Synagogue
from 2017 to present (March 2021).
(Congregation's website.)
Rabbi Dr. Andrea Zanardo
See under Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue.
Rabbi Gili Zidkiyahu
Rabbi Gili, from Israel, served as shlicha (emissary from the Jewish Agency) to Liberal Judaism in the UK from 2004 to 2006. During that time
she attended classes in the rabbinic training programme at Leo Baeck College, London. In 2008 she was ordained by Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem,
then served for five years as rabbi to the community in Even Yehuda and
two years as interim rabbi at the Or Chadash Congregation in Haifa. She
also worked as a
freelance rabbi with families from Israel and abroad, and as a rabbi educator at the TALI Foundation. She was the interim part-time rabbi at Ohel Avraham,
the synagogue at the Leo Baeck Centre in Haifa, from July 2021 until
August 2022.
In September 2022, she was appointed rabbi of the Nottingham Liberal Synagogue,
serving as until present (May 2023).
(Online reports and congregations' websites.)
Rabbi Igor Zinkov
See under The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, London.
