|
JCR-UK is a genealogical and historical website covering all Jewish communities and
congregations throughout the British Isles and Gibraltar, both past and present.
Congregation Data |
Name: |
Edgware and District Reform Synagogue |
Address: |
(Sidbury Lodge,) 118 Stonegrove, Edgware, Middx.
HA8 8AB from mid-1950s.
(Previously 14 Grove Road, Edgware,
with services sometimes held in Congregational Hall, Grove Road.)(i)
|
Date Founded: |
On 1 November 1934, 13 dissatisfied members of the then recently
established
Edgware United Synagogue decided to form a breakaway group, which
shortly thereafter adopted the name “Edgware and District Progressive Jewish Fellowship”.
The new group received assistance from the
West
London Synagogue (one of only two Reform synagogues in London at the
time) and on 12 February 1935, it was formally decided to replace the
group with the establishment of a synagogue to be
called “Edgware and District Reform Synagogue”.(ii)
In 1939, the
congregation disbanded because of wartime disruption and did
not resume activities until 1945.(iii) |
Current Status: |
No longer independently active. Merged on 15 July 2017 with
Hendon Reform Synagogue, to form
Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue |
Ritual: |
Reform |
Affiliation: |
Until the merger, a constituent synagogue of the
Movement for Reform
Judaism
(formerly the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain). It was not one of the six synagogues
who in 1942 joined together to form the Associated British Synagogues
(the forerunner of the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain), as it had
disbanded in 1939 and only resumed activities in 1945, when it joined the
association.(iii) |
Senior Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister - hold
the cursor over his or her name.) |
Rabbi Dr. Ignaz Maybaum
- from 1947 until 1963.(iv)
Rabbi Dr. Michael Leigh
- from 1963 until 1993.(v)
Rabbi Amnon Daniel Smith - Senior Minister from 1993,
remaining in office following merger.(vi)
|
Associate & Assistant Ministers: |
Rabbi Simon J. Franses -
Associate Minister from 1971 until 1974.(vii)
Rabbi Robert (Reuven) Malcolm Silverman
- Associate Minister from 1974 until 1977.(viii)
Rabbi Rodney John Mariner
- Associate Minister from 1979 until 1982.(ix)
Rabbi Jeremy Collick
- Associate Minister in about 1984.(x)
Rabbi Larry Alan Tabick
- Associate Minister from 1986 to 1990.(xi)
Rabbi Maurice Arnold Michaels
- Associate Minister from about 1997 until about 2001.(xiv)
Rabbi Neil S. Kraft
- Associate Minister from 2002, remaining in office following merger.(xv)
Rabbi Emily Yael Jurman
- Assistant Minister from 2015, remaining in office following merger.(xvi) |
Membership Data: |
National Reports &
Surveys(xvii)
1977 - 1,365 male (or household) members and an estimated 1,365 female members
1983 - !,624 male (or household) members and an estimated 1,623 female members
1990 - 2,067 members (comprising 1,420 households, 40 individual male and 607 individual female members)
1996 - 2,106 members (comprising 1,311 households, 289 individual male and 506 individual female members)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 1,500 - 1,900 members (by
household), and accordingly one of the three (in 2010) or two (in 2016)
largest synagogues (in terms of membership) in the UK. |
Charitable Status: |
The congregation was a registered unincorporated charity (no.
1038116), registered on 26 May 1994. The governing document was the
congregation's laws approved on 8 March 1954, as subsequently amended.(xviii)
|
Local Government District: |
Edgware, a residential suburb in Northwest London, has a substantial
Jewish minority. Most of Edgware (including the locality in which the
synagogue is situated) is in the London Borough of Barnet and was
(until 1965) in the former Municipal Borough of Hendon (incorporated
as a borough in 1932).(xix)
Bibliography - Barnet |
Registration District (BMD): |
Barnet(xx) -
Link to Register Office website.
|
Cemetery Information: |
Since 1969, Membership included burial rights through the Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS) at the Western Cemetery, Cheshunt
or cremation at Golders Green Crematorium. There was also the option (through the JJBS) of a Woodland Burial in Cheshunt at additional cost
or of mixed faith burial in a separate area at Cheshunt.(xxi)
In addition, for a brief period in the 1990s, members of this congregation had an option to join a scheme, at an additional annual fee, for burial at Edgwarebury Lane
Cemetery.(xxii) See
also
London Cemeteries of the Movement for Reform Judaism. |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
|
On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to this Congregation
|
List of Reform Judaism Congregations
Jewish Congregations in Edgware (London Borough of Barnet)
Jewish Congregations in Greater London (other than East End)
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 November 2006
Data significantly expanded and
notes added: 1 August 2017
Latest revision or update: 9 July 2020
Explanation of Terms |
About JCR-UK |
JCR-UK home page
Contact JCR-UK Webmaster:
jcr-ukwebmaster@jgsgb.org.uk
Terms and Conditions, Licenses and Restrictions for the use of this website:
This website is
owned by JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. All
material found herein is owned by or licensed to us. You may view, download, and
print material from this site only for your own personal use. You may not post
material from this site on another website without our consent. You may not
transmit or distribute material from this website to others. You may not use
this website or information found at this site for any commercial purpose.
Copyright © 2002 - 2024 JCR-UK. All Rights Reserved
|
|