Rabbi Dr. Stuart Altshuler
(b. c.1953)

California-born Rabbi Altshuler (m. Ella) was received ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, from where he later his Ph.D in Jewish history. After serving as a rabbi at a small congregation in Calfornia and various teaching positions he served as minister of The Belsize Square Synagogue (2011-2021) before taking up the post of rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom, Sarasota, Florida in July 2021. (JYB listings; Congregation's website; and press reports)

Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu

Rabbi Ambalu was ordained at Leo Baeck College in 2004. She served as minister of Kehilla North London (formerly North London Progressive Jewish Community), Stoke Newington (2004-2017), Milton Keynes & District Reform Synagogue (2006-c.2016), and Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue (January 2018 to present - February 2019). (Profile on Sha'arei Tsedek's website.)

Rabbi Neil Amswych and Rabbi Jenny Goldfried Amswych

Rabbis Neil and Jenny Amswych are husband and wife. They were both ordained through Leo Baeck College in 2007 and served at Bournemouth Reform Synagogue, Neil as minister (2005-2014) and Jenny as associate rabbi (2007-2014). In 2014, they moved to the United States, where Neil became rabbi of the Temple Beth Shalom, Sante Fe. (Jewish Year Book listings, biography of Rabbi Jenny Amswych on website of Temple Beth El and news reports.)

Joseph Ascher, MA

Joseph Ascher served as minister of the South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue (c.1948-c.1953) and the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London (1955-1967 and c.1971-1973). (JYB listings; West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue's Chavurah Group's website.)

Rabbi Hillel G. Avidan

London-born Rabbi Avidan was called Nigel Atkins until the late 1960s, adopting the name Hillel Avidan during his period in Israel following the Six Day War. He served as minister / rabbi of the Glasgow New (Reform) Synagogue (GRS)(1965-67, and 1970-74 following his return from Israel), Wimbledon & District Synagogue (1974-1981), Shaarei Shalom Synagogue, North Manchester Reform Congregation (1982-83), Bristol & West Progressive Synagogue (visiting rabbi 1984-1987), the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London (1985-1992), Ealing Liberal Synagogue (1986-1992) and more recently, congregations in South Africa. (Listings and "Who's Who" entries in JYBs (latest 2015), GRS's website and Rabbi Avidan's profile formerly on the South African Association of Progressive Rabbis (SAAPR) website.)

Rabbi James Baaden

Rabbi Baaden was ordained in 2001. He served as rabbi of South London Liberal Synagogue (2001-2008) and associate rabbi of Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue (an interim post from November 2011 to June 2012 and permanent from July 2012 to present - July 2019) as well as rabbi of the Liberale Synagogue, Utrecht, Netherland (2017 to present - July 2019) (Profile on Sha'arei Tsedek's website and Rabbi Baaden's LinkedIn page, both last accessed 3 July 2019.)

Rabbi Charley Baginsky

Rabbi Baginsky received her ordination from Leo Baeck College, London, in 2008. She served as rabbi / minister of Kingston Liberal Synagogue (from 2008 to 2016, having previously served the congregation as a student rabbi from 2006) and the South Bucks Jewish Community (from May 2016 until March 2020). With effect from 1 April 2020, Rabbi Baginsky took up a six month secondment at Liberal Judaism after Rabbi Danny Rich stood down from his role as chief executive and senior rabbi). (Profile of Rabbi Baginsky on the Liberal Judaism's website and JC article "Baginsky takes bigger role in Liberal Judaism" dated 6 March 2020.)

Rabbi Lisa Barrett

Rabbi Barrett was ordained in 2011. She served as part time assistant rabbi at the Middlesex New Synagogue (now the Mosaic Reform Synagogue) (c.2011), Glasgow New Synagogue and Stevenage Liberal Synagogue, assistant rabbi at Hendon Reform Synagogue (c.2014-c.2016), minister of the South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue (2016-2021). (Profile of Rabbi Barrett on South West Essex & Settlement Reform Synagogue's website.)

Rabbi Anthony Michael Bayfield

Ilford (London) born Rabbi Bayfield was ordained in 1972 and served as minister of the North West Surrey Synagogue ("NWSS") from 1972 until 1982 (having previously student rabbi from 1969). He was subsequent Chief Executive, then Head, then President, of the Movement for Reform Judaism (1995-2016). ("Our History" on NWSS's website, JYBs listings and Who's Who, and Reports from Reform Judaism.).

Rabbi Dr. Albert B. Belton
(1911 - 1987)

Rabbi Belton, born Bela Berend, was chief rabbi of Szigetvar, southern Hungary,a member of the Jewish Council in Hungary, and a leading Zionist. During the Nazi occupation of Hungary he was a rabbi in the Budapest ghetto. After the war, in 1946, a Communist People's Court in Hungary sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment for alleged collaboration with the Gestapo and war crimes. After international campaigning by Jewish organisations and appeals he was finally exonerated and released. He settled in the United States, where he changed his name to Albert B Belton. He faced numerous accusations over the course of his life regarding his record during the war and he commenced a number of libel proceedings. Rabbi Belton was briefly minister of the Southport and District Reform Synagogue (formerly Southport New Synagogue) (1965-1966). (internet research and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Rachel Benjamin

Rabbi Benjamin lived in Los Angeles from 1984 to 1994, where she gained an MA in Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College. She was ordained in 1998, at Leo Baeck College, London She served as assistant rabbi (later associate rabbi) of Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue (1998-2004, 2007-2008), joint rabbi of Woodford Progressive Synagogue (2004-2005), rabbi of the Progressive Jewish Community of East Anglia now Norwich Liberal Jewish Community (NLJC) (2003-2009), rabbi of South Bucks Jewish Community (2006-2015 and on a temporary basis during 2020) and rabbi of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood (from 2015-2018). She supported the Mosaic Liberal Synagogue, Harrow, in a pastoral role in the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic and from July 2020 until present (May 2023), she has served as its rabbi, the congregation relocating to Stanmore, northwest London, in 2022, as a constituent of the Mosaic Jewish Community. (Profile of Rabbi Benjamin on Mosaic Jewish Community's website, NLJC website, JYB listings and JC article "Baginsky takes bigger role in Liberal Judaism" dated 6 March 2020.)

Rabbi Charles Berg
(31 January 1911 - 24 November 1979)

Rabbi Berg, born Karl Rautenberg in Treptow, Germany, became, in 1952, the first non-Orthodox rabbi to be ordained in the UK. He served as minister of the Bournmouth Reform Synagogue (1948-52) and Wimbledon & District Synagogue (1952-1974) and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1958). (A History in our Time - Rabbis and Teachers Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, 2006, Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, "Who's Who" entry and obituary in JYBs.)

Rabbi Francis R. Berry

Rabbi Berry served as rabbi of Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Community (c.1990-c.1994 and c.2007-c.2008 and thereafter emeritus) and Newcastle Reform Synagogue (c.1994-c.1998). (JYB listings.)

Rabbi Rebecca Birk

Rabbi Rebecca Birk (known as Rabbi Rebecca Qassim Birk until mid-2016), BA, MA, was ordained in 2001 at Leo Baeck College, London. She served as minister for Woodford Progressive Synagogue (2001-2005), as assistant minister of Westminster Synagogue (2005-2010) and as minister of Finchley Progressive Synagogue (2011 until present - January 2020) (Profile on Finchley Progressive Synagogue's website.)

Rabbi Dr. Joel Blau
(c.1878-1927)

Rabbi Blau (c.1878-1927) served as rabbi of synagogues in Rochester and Brooklyn, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York and Peni-El Temple, New York before serving as assistant minister at the West London Synagogue (1924-1927). (Jewish Telegraph Report of 26 October 1927.)

Rabbi Lionel Blue
(6 February 1930 - 19 December 2016)

London-born Rabbi Blue was ordained in 1958 and awarded an OBE in 1994. He served as minister of the St. George's Settlement Synagogue (c.1958-1961), minister of the Middlesex New Synagogue (now the Mosaic Reform Synagogue) (1961-1964) and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1974-1977). He was frequent radio broadcaster on religious subjects and a lecturer at Leo Baeck College, London (1967-2013). (Mosaic's website, obituary in the Daily Telegraph and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Dr. Barbara Macy Borts

Rabbi Borts was ordained as a rabbi in 1981, being among the first women rabbis in Britain. She served as rabbi of Mill Hill Reform Synagogue (c.1981), Hampstead Reform Jewish Community (c.1982-c.1984), Radlett, Bushey & District Reform Synagogue (1984-c.1989), Newcastle Reform Synagogue (2008-2012) and Darlington Hebrew Congregation (2012 until at least 2019). (Service for the induction of Rabbi Barbara Borts, Mill Hill Reform Synagogue, 22 November 1981.)

Rabbi Gabriel Botnick
(b. c. 1981)

Rabbi Botnick (m. Rabbi Rose Prevezer) grew up in Cleveland, Ohio was was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He served as rabbi of the Mishkon Synagogue, Venice Beach, California before his appointment as minister of The Belsize Square Synagogue (April 2021 to present - August 2021). (Congregation's website)

Rev. H.G. Brandt, B.Sc.)

Rev. Brandt served as minister Sinai Synagogue, Leeds (c.1963-c.1971) and also acted as minister of Bradford Reform Synagogue (c.1967-1970). (JYB listings for Leeds and Jewish Bradford website)

Rabbi Dr. Rudolph Brasch
(6 November 1912 - November 2004)

German-born Rabbi Dr. Brasch served as minister of North London Liberal Synagogue from about 1938 to about 1948 and was also minister of Southgate & Enfield Progressive Synagogue (now Southgate Progressive Synagogue) from the early 1930s until about 1945. He was subsequently founder and minister of the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation (1946-47) and served as rabbi to various congregations in South Africa, Australia and the United States. (Prabook Profile and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Sidney Brichto

American-born Rabbi Brichto graduated from the New York branch of the Hebrew Union College. He was assistant minister of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, from 1962 to 1964 and was a cousin of Rabbi Chaim Stern. (Based upon references in "A Place to Call My Jewish Home" by Pam Fox, 2011. Rabbi Bricho was not listed as a minister of LJS in any JYB.)
However, a short history of North London Progressive Synagogue on the City of London website, states that "In 1969, Reverend Richer retired and was succeeded by Rabbi Sidney Brichto followed by Bernard Hooker (1975)", no other reference has so far been found to Rabbi Brichto with regard to this congregation and since Rabbi Charing was minister of the congregation from about 1970 to about 1972, Rabbi Brichto term of office (if it took place at all) would only have been of a short duration, probably before Rabbi Charing.

Rabbi Janet Burden

US-born Rabbi Burden was ordained in July 2002 by Leo Baeck College, London. She served, largely concurrently, as minister of the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London (c.2002-c.2014) and Ealing Liberal Synagogue (c.2005 to August 2020 and thereafter emeritus) (Rabbi Burden's LinkedIn profile and Ealing Liberal Synagogue's website.)

Rabbi Danny Burkeman

Rabbi Burkeman, who was ordained in 2009, served as assistant rabbi of the West London Synagogue (2009-2011) before moving to the United States where he served as associate rabbi of The Community Synagogue, Port Washington, New York (2011-2017) and senior rabbi of Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland, Massachusetts (2017 to present - January 2019). (Temple Shir Tikva's website accessed 20 January 2019)

Rev. Erich Cahn
(1922 - 1 November 2005)

Rev. Cahn was born in Hamburg, Germany. He briefly served the Orthodox community in Brighton and Hove before being appointed second (or acting) reader, teacher and collector for the Swansea Hebrew Congregation, serving from early 1949 until 1951. He then moved to the non-Orthodox sector and served as an assistant minister at Cardiff New Synagogiue, now Cardiff Reform Synagogue (c.1951-c.1952) and as minister at of the Southport New Synagogue, now Southport & District Reform Synagogue, Merseyside (c.1952-c.1963). He subsequently emigrated to Australia serving as a minister at Temple Beth Israel at St Kilda, Melbourne. He is buried in the Jewish section of the Springvale Cemetery in Melbourne. His widow, Olga, died 23 October 2019, aged 98 or 99. (1980 souvenir brochure of the Swansea congregation, p.63; JYBs listings; and communication from a distant relative.)

Rabbi Louis J. Cashdan
(1906 - 28 July 1987)

Detroit-born Rabbi Cashdan was ordained in 1933. He served as an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1939-1942) and congregations in Des Moines, Charleston, W.Va., Kansas City, Mo., Toronto and Washington DC before retiring in 1981. (Obituary)

Rabbi Curtis E. Cassell
(9 November 1912 - 8 October 1998)

Rabbi Cassell, born Kurt Kassell in Oppeln, Germany, was ordained in 1936 and came to Britain in 1939. He served as rabbi of Glasgow Progressive Synagogue (now Glasgow Reform Synagogue -GRS) (visiting minister from 1943 and resident minister 1945-1948), second minister of the West London Synagogue (1948-1957) and was rabbi of the Progressive Jewish Congregation in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (1957-1977). He later served as visiting rabbi to Bristol & West Progressive Synagogue (c.1987-c.1988). (A History in our Time - Rabbis and Teachers Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, 2006, GRS website and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Douglas Charing

Rabbi Charing received his ordination in 1970 from Leo Baeck College, London. He served as minister of North London Progressive Synagogue and Woodford Liberal Jewish Synagogue (both about 1970-72), Ealing Liberal Synagogue (about 1973) and Sinai Synagogue, Leeds (c.1973-c.1977). In 1974, he founded the Jewish Education Bureau, Leeds (Director from 1974 to present - March 2019) and served as the visiting minister to Bristol & West Progressive Synagogue (c.1988-c.1989) and Bradford Reform Synagogue (from about 2008 until at least 2018). (JYB listings, BBC profile and Rabbi Charing's LinkedIn profile.)

Rabbi Marim D. Charry

Rabbi Charry (born 1935) served as an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1960-1962). He returned to the United States and was connected to a number of US congregations, in particular Temple Israel of Great Neck.

Rabbi Malcolm Cohen

London-born Rabbi Cohen, who was ordained in 2006, served as assistant rabbi of the West London Synagogue (2006-2009) before moving to theUnited States to become rabbi of Temple Sinai, Las Vegas (2009 to present - January 2019). (Temple Sinai's website, accessed 20 January 2019.)

Rev. Philip Cohen

Rev. Cohen was born in Manchester and served as minister of the orthodox Central Synagogue, London (1934-c.1939) and was an army chaplain during World War II. He later served as associate minister of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood (1946-1958), as senior minister of North Western Reform Synagogue, Golders Green (1958-1972) and appears to have served as reader of North London Progressive Synagogue (c.1973-c.1975) - a Rev. P. Cohen being so listed in the Jewish Year Books 1974 and 1975, although this could be a different person. (A Place to Call My Jewish Home by Pam Fox, 2011, p186-7, 415., The Golders Green Jewish Community by Pam Fox, 2016 and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Prof. Dan Mark Cohn-Sherbok

Denver-born Rabbi Professor Cohn-Sherbok, a theologian and prolific author, served as an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1972-1974) and is a former professor of Judaism at the University of Wales.

Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Collick
(31 August 1957 - February 2019)

Rabbi Collick served as associate rabbi of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue (c.1984), minister of Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue (BHRS) (1984-1999) and Edgware Masorti Synagogue (2000-14) (Who's Who, listings in JYBs, History of BHRS and JC press report of death.)

Rabbi Howard Cooper

Rabbi Cooper was ordained in 1980. He served as a part-time rabbi of Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue (now Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue) during the 1980s and as an associate rabbi at the South-East Essex Reform Synagogue (c.1980-c.1982) and rabbi with Finchley Reform Synagogue from at least 2010 until present (February 2019), although his involvement with that congregation goes back much earlier as he was Director of Education from 1982 to 1986 and had joined the Rabbinic Team in 1989.

Rev. Stephen Cotsen

Rev Cotsen served as chazan (cantor) of Brixton Synagogue, London (c.1979), Hackney Synagogue, now Hackney & East London Synagogue, (c.1980-c.1982) and Mill Hill Synagogue, London (c.1982-c.1984), all United Synagogue congregations. However, in 1996, he joined the Masorti Movement, subsequently becoming chazan of the New London Synagogue (NLS) (1999-2012 and from 2018 to present - June 2020). (JYB listings and biography on NLS website.)

Rabbi Michael Curtis
(16 December 1896 - 8 December 1988)

Rabbi Michael Curtis came to Britain from Germany as a refugee in the 1930s. He served as an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1948-1971) and was Clerk to the Reform Beth Din (1948-1972). (A History in our Time - Rabbis and Teachers Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, 2006.)

Rabbi Hadasssah Davis

Rabbi Davis studied at Leo Baeck College and was ordained in 1993. She served as rabbi (primarily part time) of Bristol and West Progressive Jewish Community (c.1997-c.2007), Thanet and District Reform Synagogue (dates currently unknown) and Reading Liberal Jewish Community (c.2003-c.2015). (2018 Sermon by Rabbi Davis and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Sion David

Rabbi David was born in Mumbai, India and graduated with a BA in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College (affiliated with the University of Bombay). He later studied at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from where he was ordained in 1966 with a Master’s Degree in Hebrew Letters. He then served as minister of Glasgow New Synagogue (now Glasgow Reform Synagogue (1967-1970) and subsequently moved to the United States and served as rabbi at two congregations in Western Pennsylvania, Beth Zion Temple in Johnstown and Temple Israel in Uniontown, retiring from the latter after 27 Years of service, followed by 11 years as rabbi emeritus. (Reflections of Rabbi David.)

Rabbi Dr. Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange

Rabbi Dr de Lange, an ordained Reform rabbi, was Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge. He served as chaplain of the Cambridge Progressive Jewish Society (initially the Cambridge University Progressive Jewish Group) from at least 1977 until at least 1997. (JYB listings)

Rabbi Dr. A. Stanley Dreyfus
(31 January 1921 - 8 July 2008)

Ohio-born Rabbi Dreyfus was ordained in 1946 and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1949) and a chaplain in the U.S. Army (1956-1965). He served as rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Beaver Falls, PA (1950-1951), Congregation B'nai Israel in East Liverpool, OH (1951-1956), Terre Haute, IN (1953-55), Temple B'nai Israel in Galveston, TX (1956-1965) and Union Temple of Brooklyn, NY (1965-1979) and was Director of Rabbinic Placement of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1980-1991).