Congregation Data |
Name: |
Yeshurun Synagogue
(Beth Haknesset Yeshurun)(ii) |
Former Name: |
Edgware Beth Hamedrash(iii) |
Address: |
Fernhurst Gardens, Stonegrove Edgware, Middx. HA8 7PH
(consecrated 1950 (2))
Previously at Heather Walk, Edgware.(iii) |
Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
October
1946(iv) |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of the
Federation of Synagogues
from, or from shortly following, its formation.(v)
(See also
Kehillas Netzach Yisroel
- Federation Synagogue, also in Edgware.) |
Website: |
http://www.yeshurun.org |
Ministers, Rabbis & Rabbinical Team:
(To view a short profile of a minister
whose name appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rabbi A. Rappaport
- minister from about 1947 until about 1948(viii)
Rabbi Getzel Ellison
- minister from 1958 until 1964(ix)
Rev. S. Kugel
- "Minister" in about 1965(x)
Rabbi Benzion (Benzel) Lapian
- minister from about 1965 until about 1973(xi)
Rabbi (later Dayan) Gershon Lopian
(& Rebbetzen Judy Lopian)
- minister from 1976 until 2006, thereafter Emeritus Rabbi
until 2014(xii)
Rabbi Alan Lewis
(& Rebbetzen Miriam Lewis)
- minister from 2006 until present (October 2021)(xiii)
Rabbi Benji Landau
(& Rebbetzen Aviva Landau)
- associate rabbi from 2016 until about 2020(xiv) |
Cantors (Readers): |
Rev. E. Singer
- from about 1951 until about 1956(xvii)
Rev. Eli Abt
- from about 1959 until about 1964(xviii)
Rev. Dov Speier
- about 1976(xix)
Rev. Joel N. Portnoy
- from 1977 until 1980(xx) |
Lay Officers:(xxii) |
President
1947-1956 - A.B. Olivestone
Wardens
1948-1949 - J. Osofky and H. Weinstein
1949-1951 - H. Weinstein and H. Weisfogel
1951-1953 - no data
1953-1954 - A.B. Olivestone and D. Dolinsky
1954-1955 - H. Weisfogel and D. Dolinsky
1955-1956 - H. Weisfogel and I. Berenblut
|
Treasurers(xxiii)
1947-1952 - B. Cohen
1952-1954 - no data
1954-1956 - B. Weller
Secretaries(xxiv)
1947-1951 - B. Cohen
1951-1953 - V. Brilliant
1953-1955 - Mrs. B. Vogel
1955-1956 - G. Blackman
1956-1957 - M.N. Greene
1957-1965 - D.S. Preston(xxv)
|
Membership Data: |
National Reports & Surveys(xxix)
1977 - 329 male (or household) members and 81 female members
1983 - 329 male (or household) members and 79 female members
1990 - 431 members (households)
1996 - 433 members (comprising 293 households, 38 individual male and 102 individual female members)
2010 - listed as having 400 to 499 members (by household)
2016 - listed as having 300 to 399 members (by household) |
Charitable Status: |
No registration found of the congregation as a registered charity.
However, the Edgware Yeshurun Synagogue Yeshiva and Seminary Fund
is a registered charity (no. 1111523), registered
on 30 September 2005. The governing document is the Declaration of Trust
of 5 July 2005. (xxx) |
Local Government Districts: |
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).(xxxi)
Bibliography - Barnet |
Registration District (BMD): |
Barnet(xxxii) -
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
For
Federation of Synagogues cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the
Federation of Synagogues |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
|
List of Congregations in the Federation of Synagogues
Jewish Congregations in Edgware (London Borough of Barnet)
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 November 2006
Data significantly expanded and notes first added:
15 March 2018
Latest revision or update: 4
October 2021
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