Congregation Data |
Name: |
South London Liberal Synagogue
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Former Name: |
South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue
(until about 1978(i))
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Address: |
1
Prentis Road, Streatham, London SW16 1ZW
The congregation acquired and moved into this building in 1938, which
was a former girls' school built in 1908.
In February 2018, the congregation launched a project, the Abraham’s
Tent Project, to convert part of the synagogue building back into use as
a flat for a refugee family.(ii) |
Previous Addresses:(iii) |
About 1935 to 1938
Farnan Hall, Hopton Road, SW16
1929 to about 1935 (or possibly 1938)
Tudar Hall, Pinfold Street,
Streatham, SW16 (adjoining Tate Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, SW16 1PN)
The Library and the adjoining Hall are a Grade II Listed Building (number 1434186), designated on 12 May 2016.
View description
on Historic England website.
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Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
1929. Two years earlier, Samuel Morris Rich and several of his friends discovered a potential nucleus for a congregation in South London
and so set about gathering people together.(iv) |
Ritual: |
Liberal Progressive |
Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of
Liberal Judaism (formerly
known as the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS) and
previously the Jewish Religious Union) from the congregation's founding.(v) |
Website: |
http://www.southlondon.org |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
who also served other UK congregations - name in blue - hold the cursor over his
or her name.) |
Samuel Morris Rich
- until about 1948(vi)
Joseph Ascher, BA
- from about 1948 until about 1953(vii)
Rev. John Desmond Rayner
- from 1953 until 1957(viii)
Rev. David Goldstein
- from about 1961 until about 1964(ix)
Rabbi Michael Elton, MA
- from about 1964 until about 1966(x)
Rabbi Lawrence Rigál
- from 1967 until 1973(xi)
Rabbi G.C. Goldberg
- from about 1975 until about 1977(xii)
Rabbi Julia Neuberger
- from 1977 until 1989(xiii)
Rabbi Neil S. Kraft
- from about 1989 until about 2000(xiv)
Rabbi James Baaden
- from October 2001 until June 2008(xv)
Rabbi Janet Darley
- from 2008 (Student Rabbi until July 2009) until 2016(xvi)
Rabbi Nathan Godleman
- from 2016 (Student Rabbi until July 2018) until present (May 2023)(xvii)
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Past President: |
The Hon. Lilian Helen (Lily) Montagu, JP
President - from founding of the congregation until about 1956 (from about 1951, Hon. Life
President)(xix) |
Membership Data: |
Jewish Year Books(xxii)
1938 |
1939 |
1945 |
1946 |
1947 |
1948 |
200 |
220 |
275 |
390 |
472 |
505 |
National Reports and Surveys(xxiii)
1977 - 267 male (or household) members and 108 female members
1983 - 250 male (or household) members and 125 female members
1990 - 390 members (comprising 203 households, 67 individual male and 120 individual female members)
1996 - 290 members (comprising 121 households, 61 individual male and 108 individual female members)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 100 to 199 members (by household)
Congregation's Annual Reports(xxiv)
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
254 |
272 |
269 |
237 |
221 |
190 |
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Charitable Status: |
The congregation is a registered charity (no. 236711),
registered on 1 December 1969. The governing document are the congregation's
Constitution and Rulest as amended 23 May 2004.(xxv)
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Local Government
District: |
The
South London suburb of Streatham is
in the
London Borough of Lambeth(xxvi) and was previously (until 1965) in the
former
Metropolitan Borough of
Wandsworth within the former County of London.
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Registration District (BMD): |
Lambeth(xxvii) -
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
See
London Cemeteries of Liberal Judaism. |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material relating to this Congregation
on JCR-UK
on Third Party websites
|
List of Liberal Judaism Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Lambeth
Jewish Congregations in Greater London (other than East End)
Greater London home page
Page created: 23 July 2006
Data significantly expanded and
notes added: 18 October 2018
Latest revision or update: 10 May 2023
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