The Rev. Philip Magnus (later, Sir Philip Magnus, first Baronet)
(7 October 1842 - 23 August 1933)

London-born Sir Philip Magnus, who was knighted in 1886 and made a baronet in 1917, served as assistant minister of West London Synagogue (1866-1880). He served as Unionist MP for London University (1906-1922), being the first man elected to Parliament to have served in a rabbinical capacity. (Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History)

Rabbi Anthony Lazarus Magrill

Rabbi Magrill grew up in London, and studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He became heavily involved in the Masorti community, and subsequently studied for some time at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He subsequently studied on the Masorti track at Leo Baeck College, London, and served as a rabbinic intern at the Mosaic Masorti Synagogue, Harrow, from summer 2021. Upon his ordination in July 2022, he was appointed to the position of rabbi of the congregation, serving until present (May 2023). In late 2022, the congregation, as a constituent synagogue of the Mosaic Jewish Community, moved to Stanmore, northwest London. (Rabbi Magrill's profile on the Mosaic Jewish Community's website.)

Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton

Ultrecht (Netherlands) born Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton (née Middleton) was awarded an MA in Semitic Languages and Cultures at the University of Amsterdam in 1994, and an MA in Jewish Studies at the Leo Baeck College, London, in 1999. She was ordained at the Leo Baeck College in 2000 and served as an assistant (later associate) minister of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, London (2000-2007). From 2008 until present (May 2023), she has served minister of Middlesex New Synagogue, Harrow, which as the  Mosaic Reform Synagogue became a constituent synagogue of the Mosaic Jewish Community, located in Stanmore, northwest London from 2022. ("A Place to Call My Jewish Home" by Pam Fox, p. 185, JYB listings and Rabbi de Magtige-Middleton's profile on the Mosaic Jewish Community's website.)

Rabbi Alan Mann

London born Rabbi Mann studied at Leo Baeck College, London and served as an associate minister of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood (1971-1975) and as minister of Stanmore Liberal Jewish Congregation (now The Liberal Synagogue Elstree) (c.1972-c.1975). He subsequently trained as qualified as a solicitor and become a lecturer in law at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). From 1979 until 1991, he served the fledgling Nottingham Progressive Jewish Community (now Nottingham Liberal Synagogue) on a voluntary basis conducting services and undertaking various other pastoral work. He left Nottingham in 1991. (JYB listings; "A Place to Call My Jewish Home" by Pam Fox, 2011, p.415; and Nelson Fisher's "Eight Hundred Years - The Story of Nottingham's Jews" (1998).)

Rabbi Natasha Mann

Hertfordshire-born Rabbi Netasha Mann was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2019 and serves as assistant rabbi of the New London Synagogue, St John's Wood (from 2019 to present - May 2024) and was seconded to Mosaic Masorti Synagogue, Hatch End (2019-2022). (Websites of both congregations)

Rabbi Rodney John Mariner
(1941 - 16 August 2024)

Melbourne-born Rabbi Mariner studied at Monash University, Melbourne, from where he earned a BA in English Literature and European History. He later studied at the Hebrew Union College and School of Biblical Archaeology in Jerusalem followed by the Leo Baeck College in London, from where he was ordained in 1976. He served as assistant minister of North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, Golders Green, London, (1976-1979), associate minister of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue, nothwest London,(1979-1982) and then as minister of Belsize Square Synagogue, northwest London,(1982-2011). (Rabbi Mariner's profile on the Belsize Square Synagogue's website; Listings and "Who's Who" entries in JYBs; and JC obituary.)

The Rev. Professor David Woolf Marks
(22 November 1811 - 2 May 1909)

London-born Rev. Marks served as senior minister of West London Synagogue (1840-1893), the first minister appointed by the congregation. He had previously served as assistant / reader of the Western Synagogue, London (1831-1833) and reader of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, Steel Street (1833-?).

Rabbi Dow Marmur

Rabbi Murmar was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1935 and spent World War II in the Soviet Union. He was ordained in 1962 and served as minister of South West Essex Reform Synagogue (c.1963-c.1969) and North Western Reform Synagogue, Golders Green (associate minister 1969-1972, senior minister 1972-1983). He later moved to Canada to become senior rabbi of Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple (1983-2000) (Listings and "Who's Who" entries in JYBs)

Rabbi Dr. Ignaz Maybaum
(2 March 1897 - 1976)

Viennese-born Rabbi Maybaum had served as a rabbi in Germany prior to World War II, escaping to England in 1938. He served as senior minister of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue (1947-1963), where he was named as Emeritus Minister following the appointment of his successor and until his death and also served as an assisting rabbi at West London Synagogue (1958). (A History in our Time - Rabbis and Teachers Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, 2006 and "Who's Who" entries in JYBs)

Rabbi Monique Mayer

Rabbi Monique grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and received her ordination from Leo Baeck College, London. She served as an interim associate rabbi of Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue (STNLRS) (2011-2012) before being appointed minister of Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation (BWPJC) c.2012 to present - July 2019) and has also served part time (once a month) as rabbi of Cardiff Reform Synagogue (CRS) (c.2015 to at least 2018). (BWPJC website, information communicated to JCR-UK by STNLRS, CRS annual reports, Jewish Year Book listings.)

Rabbi Maurice Arnold Michaels

Rabbi Michaels served as rabbi of Harlow Jewish Community, as senior rabbi of South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue, as associate minister of Edgware & District Reform Synagogue (c.1997-c.2001), as part-time rabbi of North Western Reform Synagogue (2011-2018) and as part time rabbi of Bournemouth Reform Synagogue (from 2014 to present - August 2019). (JYB listings and "Who's Who" entries and press reports)

Rabbi Dr. Charles Middleburgh

Hove-born Rabbi Middleburgh, who has a BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and obtained a PhD from University of London, was ordained in 1986. He served as rabbi of Wembley & District Liberal Synagogue (now the Mosaic Liberal Synagogue) (1986 to c.1997, having served as student rabbi from 1983) and was founder rabbi of Congregation Shir HaTzaphon in Copenhagen and was subsequently appointed Dean and Director of Jewish Studies at the Leo Baeck College, London. He has served as part-time rabbi of Cardiff Reform Synagogue (CRS) (2004 to 2014) and Dublin Progressive Jewish Congregation (DPJC) (c.2001-c.2010 and 2016 to present (part time) - August 2019). (Jewish Year Book listings, press reports, DPJC website, profile on Liberal Judaism's website, Hineni - Life Portraits of CRS.)

Rabbi Alan Miller
(1926 - 12 August 2016)

Rabbi Miller, PhD, was born in Hull, Yorkshire, where his father, Rabbi Lewis Miller, was serving as a minister. He attended Aria College, Southsea, Portsmouth, and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1955-1959) and as minister of S.W. Essex Synagogue (c.1958-c.1961). He subsequently moved to the United States to become rabbi and teacher at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (1961-1992). (JYB listings and Obituary in the New York Times.)

Rabbi David Mitchell

Rabbi Mitchell was ordained in 2009. He served as associate rabbi of Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue (2009-2011) and then moved to the West London Synagogue, (where he served as rabbi from 2011 and then as co-senior rabbi from 1 April 2020 to present (April 2020).

The Hon. Lilian Helen Montagu, C.B.E., D.H.L (Hon.)
(22 December 1873 - 22 January 1963)

Known affectionately as "Miss Lily", Lilian Montagu was one of the early leaders of the Progressive Jewish movement in Britain and the first woman to play a major role in such movement. She was also active in social improvement, particularly in respect to working women, unemployment, sweatshops and bad housing. Born in London and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, her father was the extremely influential Sir Samuel Montagu (later first Baron Swaythling). In 1893, she founded, together with her sister Marian, the West Central Jewish Girls Club and in 1902 she founded, together with Claude D. Montefiore, the Jewish Religious Union, the forerunner of both the The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (LJS) and the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS). She gave her first sermon in 1915 and thereafter frequently occupying the LJS pulpit. She founded the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) in 1926 and briefly served as its president from 1955 to 1956. In 1928, she founded the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue in 1928, serving as its lay minister until her death in 1963, having been formally ordained and inducted as a lay minister in 1944. She subsequently helped form other Liberal synagogues throughout Britain, frequently serving as their chairman or president, including Liverpool Liberal Jewish Congregation (now Liverpool Reform Synagogue), North London Liberal Synagogue, South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue and the New Liberal Congregation (now Belsize Square Synagogue).  She was awarded an OBE in 1937 and a CBE in 1955.

Rabbi Fred Morgan

US-born Rabbi Morgan, who was ordained in 1984, served as minister of the North West Surrey Synagogue from 1984 until 1997 (having previously student rabbi from 1983). He subsequently served as senior rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, Melbourne, Australia (1997-2013). ("Our History" on the congregation's website, accessed 16 December 2018 and Rabbi Morgan's biography on IRCI's website.)

Rabbi Nancy Morris

Montreal-born Rabbi Nancy Morris studied at Leo Baeck College, London and was ordained in 2002. She became Scotland's first female rabbi in 2003, on her appointment as minister of Glasgow New (Reform) Synagogue (2003-2012). She subsequently served as senior minister of South West Essex and Settlement Synagogue (SWESRS) (2012-2014) before returning to Canada. (Ilford Recorder report of 23 September 2012 and statement issued by SWESRS on 23 June 2014.)

Rabbi Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger DBE (Baroness Neuberger)

Rabbi Julia Neuberger (née Schwab; born 1950) was ordained in 1977, being Britain's second female rabbi and the first to have her own synagogue when she served as minister of South London Liberal Synagogue (1977-1989). She was also listed as minister of Nottingham Progressive Jewish Community (now Nottingham Liberal Synagogue) in 1978 (presumably as a visiting rabbi). She was subsequently involved in many communal, academic and public activities and in 2004, she became Baroness Neuberger. In 2011, she returned to the pulpit, being appointed senior minister of the West London Synagogue (2011-2020). Upon her retirement she was appointed rabbi emerita with effect from 1 April 2020. (West London Synagogue's website)

Rabbi Danny Newman

Rabbi Newman was ordained in July 2017. He served initially as an associate rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue (2017-c.2018) and subsequently Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue (temporarily, for a five month period from November 2018). In January 2019, he was appointed rabbi of Elstree & Borehamwood Masorti Community and in February 2021, he became the joint rabbi of that congregation and Edgware Masorti Synagogue. (JC reports and online research.)

Rabbi Jeffrey Newman
(b. 1941)

Reading-born Rabbi Newman served as rabbi of Menorah Synagogue, Cheshire Reform Congregation, Manchester (c.1971-c.1973). He was then appointed as senior rabbi of  Finchley Reform Synagogue (1973-2000) and thereafter served as the congregation's emeritus rabbi until the present (June 2019).

Rabbi Roger Victor Pavey
(1939 - 21 Oct 2009)

Kidderminster-born Rabbi Parvey studied at the University of London, Yeshivah and Leo Baeck College, London, where he was ordained in 1967. He served as assistant minister (c.1965-c.1968) and minister (c.1968-c.1970) of the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London and as minister of Southend Progressive Synagogue (later Southend and District Reform Synagogue) (c.1970-c.1979). In 1980, he emigrated to Canada and served as minister of several Canadian congregations. (JYB Listings and Obituary in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

Rabbi Michael Pertz

Rabbi Pertz was ordained in 2000. He served as assistant minister at Southgate & District Reform Synagogue (now Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue) (around 2001/2) and as part-time minister of Harlow Jewish Community (c.2002-c.2009) and South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue (c.2004-c.2011) and became a "freelance" rabbi in September 2011. (Rabbi Pertz's LinkedIn account, accessed 10 December 2018, information communicated to JCR-UK by Sha'arei Tsedek and JYBs listings.)

Rev. Maurice L. Perlzweig
(1895 - 1985)

Polish-born Rev. Perlzweig was appointed as minister of the North London Liberal Synagogue from 1921 and as "second" minister of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Woods, from 1924 and appears to have held both positions until 1938. At the same time (primarily 1933-1934 and 1936-1938), he assisted at the West Central Liberal Jewish Congregation, frequently leading the services. In 1938 he became minister at North Western Reform Synagogue, Golders Green. He also served as Chairman of North London Liberal Synagogue (c.1934-c.1938).  He was a founder of the World Jewish Congress. (See The Reminiscences of Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig and Profile of Rev. Perlzweig.)

Rabbi Dr. René Pfertzel

Strasbourg-born Rabbi Pfertzel was ordained at Leo Baeck College, London, in 2014. He has served as an assistant rabbi at Finchley Progressive Synagogue, London, visiting rabbi (one weekend each month) at Wessex Liberal Jewish Community, Bournemouth, Dorset (2014-2023), an assistant rabbi at The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London (2015-2017) and rabbi at Kingston Liberal Synagogue (August 2017 to present - June 2022). (Profile of Rabbi Pfertzel on the Liberal Judaism's website and email communication.)

Rabbi Dr. Gustav Pfingst
(c.1900 - July 1957)

Rabbi Dr. Pfingst, born Ausbach, Bavaria (m. Rosa Ackmann at Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany in June 1931) was educated at the University of Wurtzburg, Bavaria. He obtained semicha and served as minister to communities in Nordhausen, Oppelu (today Oppeln in Poland), Charlottenburg (Greater Berlin) and Landsberg, Bavaria, and was a student of Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck in Berlin. Following incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp in 1938, he fled to Britain with his family in about 1939. In mid 1940, he was interned in the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Man, but was released in January 1941 on medical grounds and later worked with refugee children. He served as minister to the Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation (1950-1952) and the Sinai Synagogue, Leeds (1952-1956) before becoming minister of the "traditional" Aberdeen Hebrew Congregation) (1956 until his death). (JC reports and obituary, 12 July 1957)

Rev. Jacob Phillips
(c.1869 - 22 April 1940)

Portsmouth-born Rev. Phillips, the son of Rev. Isaac Philips, studied at Aria College, Portsea, Portsmouth. He served as minister at the Tredegar Synagogue (1888-1891), the Swansea Hebrew Congregation (1891-1893) and Sunderland Hebrew Congregation (1893-1897). He then moved to South Africa where he was a minister in Port Elizabeth until 1912, and following his return to Britain he became minister of the Manchester Congregation of British Jews (1913-1940). He was the brother of Rev. Lewis Phillips, minister of Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool.  (The Manchester Congregation of British Jews 1857-1957, Chapter XI by Rabbi P.S. Goldberg, 1957;1975 JHSE conference paper on Swansea; and the History of the Sunderland Jewish Community by A. Levy, 1956.)

Rabbi Marcia Plumb

Rabbi Marcia Plumb served as an associate rabbi of Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue (1990-1991) and as minister of the North London Progressive Synagogue (c.1994-c.2000) and Southgate & District Reform Synagogue (now Sha'arei Tsedek North London Reform Synagogue) (2003-2010), as well as congregations in the United States. (JYB Listings and press reports.)

Rabbi Dr. Allen Howard Podet (b.1934)

Cleveland-born Rabbi Podet for much of his career was a professor or part of the academic team at various US educational institutions. He also served as rabbi at Temple Israel, Dayton Ohio (1962-1964) and Temple Sinai, Bellview, Washington (1970-1974) and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1976-1977 and 1986-1987).

Rabbi Indigo Jonah Raphael (formerly Rabbi Melinda Michelson Carr)

Transgender Rabbi Raphael, previously Rabbi Melinda Carr, was born in South Africa and ordained in 1996 by Leo Baeck College, London, and served, as Rabbi Carr, as minister of Ealing Liberal Synagogue (c.1997-c.2004) and as rabbi of the Progressive Jewish Community of East Anglia (now Norwich Liberal Jewish Community (c.2000-c.2003). In 2012 Rabbi Carr became Rabbi Indigo Jonah Raphael. (Jewish Year Book listings, JC Report and Rabbi Raphael's website.)

Rabbi Dr. John Desmond Rayner
(30 April 1924 - 19 September 2005)

Rabbi Rayner (born Hans Sigismund Rahmer in Berlin) arrived in Britain as a teenage refugee on the Kindertransport. He studied for six years at Cambridge University and from 1943 he served in the British army service reaching the rank of captain. In 1953, he was ordained as a reverend by Rabbi Mattuck of LJS.  He served as the first full time minister of South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue (1953-1957) and then joined The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood, London (1957-1990), serving initially as associate minister and, from 1961, as its senior minister and (following a two-year leave to study at the Hebrew Union College (HUC), Cincinnati to receive rabbinical ordination) as senior rabbi from 1965 until his retirement in 1989, whereupon he was named emeritus rabbi until his death. In 1980, the HUC awarded him a Doctorate of Divinity degree. ("A Place to Call My Jewish Home", 2011 by Pam Fox, pp.182-3 and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Harold F. Reinhart
(1891 - 17 August 1969)

American-born Rabbi Reinhart, DD held a first degree from University of Cincinatti and a masters degree from University of Chicago, before returning to Cincinnati to study at the Hebrew Union College, where he was ordained in 1915. He served reform congregations in Gary (Indiana), Baton Rouge, Los Angeles and Sacramento, California, coming to England in 1929 to serve as senior minister of the West London Synagogue (1929-1957). He resigned after 27 years as a rnesult of a widening rift with a majority of the members of the synagogue and established the Westminster Synagogue, serving as its minister from 1957 until his death in 1969. (Westminster Synagogue's website and papers of Rabbi Reinhart at Southampton University.)

Rabbi Danny Rich

Rabbi Rich served as rabbi of Kingston Liberal Synagogue (1988 to 2004) and then as Senior Rabbi and Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism (2005-2020). He was subsequently appointed part time rabbi of the Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community (3CLJC) and Stevenage Liberal Synagogue (2020 to present - September 2022) and from May 2021 to August 2022 he served as interin rabbi at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. (Profile on Liberal Judaism's and other websites.)

Rabbi Lawrence Rigál
(14 October 1928 - 19 July 2010)

London-born Rabbi Rigál was ordained in 1964. He served as rabbi/minister at Birmingham Liberal Jewish Synagogue (1964-1967), South London Liberal Jewish Synagogue (1967-1973), West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue (1973-c.1985), Woodford Liberal Jewish Synagogue (1973-c.1977), Beds-Herts Liberal Jewish Synagogue, now Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue (c.1977-c.1985) and the Settlement Synagogue (from 1985, and following its merger in 1997 to form the South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue, he served in the merged congregation until 2009). (JYB listings and Website of the late Rabbi Regal including his Resume.)

Rabbi Samuel Rodrigues-Periera
(10 March 1929 - 2 February 2009)

UK-born Rabbi Rodrigues-Pereira was the son of orthodox Rev. Benjamin Aron Rodrigues-Pereira. He served as assistant chazan at the Spanish & Portuguese Congregation in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia and as a part-time minister at the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Cheetham Hill, Manchester before becoming a Reform rabbi in 1970. He then served as an assistant minister at Manchester Reform Synagogue (?-1976) and as minister at Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation (1976-c.1978), Bushey & District Reform Synagogue (1978-1984), Hampstead Reform Jewish Community (c.1986-c.1988) and Kol Chai - Hatch End Jewish Community (1989-2001 and thereafter emeritus minister). (Obituary in JYB 27 March 2009 and JYB listings.)

Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Amidjar Romain, MBE

London-born Rabbi Dr. Romain, BA. PhD, MBE, a writer and broadcaster, has served Maidenhead Synagogue as full-time minister since 1980. He was awarded an MBE in 2004 and is married to Rabbi Sybil Sheridan. Rabbi Romain chaired the Movement for Reform Judaism's Assembly of Rabbis (2007-2009) and has also chaired the Movement's Beth Din (January 2015 to present - September 2023). He is also chaplain to the Jewish Police Association and is involved in a large number of communal projects, many involving inter-faith relations. (On-line reports.)

Rabbi Erwin S. Rosenblum
((30 May 1922 - 15 March 1996)

Rabbi Rosenblum was born in Bratislava and sought refuge in Britain from the Nazis in 1938. His first appointment was as a chazan at the orthodox Maida Vale Beth Hamedresh (c.1945) before joining the Reform movement. He served as minister of Maidenhead Synagogue (1953-1956), assistant minister of North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, Golders Green (1955-1956) and minister of Brighton & Hove New (Reform) Synagogue (1956-1984) and was an assisting rabbi at the West London Synagogue (1958). (Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History)

Rabbi Sylvia Helen Fay Rothschild

Bradford-born Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild, BSc. was ordained in 1987. She served as minister at the Bromley Reform Synagogue (1987-2002) and as as a joint minister (with Rabbi Sybil Sheridan) of Wimbledon & District Synagogue (2003-14) and in 2016, she became rabbi to the Lev Chadash congregation in Milan, Italy. ("Who's Who" entries and listings in JYBs).

Rabbi Dr. Walter M.A. Rothschild)

Rabbi Rothschild was ordained at Leo Baeck College in 1984 and served as minister of Sinai Synagogue, Leeds (1984-1995) and also acted as minister of Bradford Reform Synagogue (1984-1995). (JYB listings for Leeds and Jewish Bradford website.)