Former Names
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Liverpool Progressive Synagogue,
from about 1977 until 2005(ii)
Liverpool Liberal Synagogue,
from 1938 until about 1977(iii)
Liverpool Liberal Jewish Congregation,
until about 1938(iv)
(also known as Hope Place Synagogue
from about 1937 until about 1962)(v)
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Former Address:
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From about 1937 until 1962, 1 Hope Place,
Liverpool (now the Unity Theatre and previously the synagogue
of the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation).
Prior to then, services were held in
the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street.(vi)
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Formation and Affiliation:
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The congregation was founded 1928(ix)
as a constituent synagogue of the Jewish Religious Union for
the Advancement of Liberal Judaism (later the Union of Liberal
and Progressive Synagogues and now known as
Liberal Judaism).
Although there had ben discussions as
early as 1964 about the congregation joining the Reform movement,(x)
it was not until 2005 that it left Liberal Judaism and became
a constituent synagogue of the
Movement
for Reform Judaism (MRJ, formerly known as Reform Synagogues
of Great Britain).(xi)
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Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister who also served other UK
congregations - name in blue - hold the cursor over his name.)
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Rabbi Morris Goldstein, MA -
from about 1929 until about 1932(xv)
Rabbi Raphael H. Levine, BA LLB - from
about 1932 until about 1938(xvi)
Rabbi Maurice Kleinberg - from
about 1938 until at least 1940(xvii)
Rev. F. Susman - from about 1946
until about 1948(xx)
Rabbi Jakob Jankel Kokotek - from about
1951 until about 1956(xxi)
Rabbi S.J. Goldberg - from about 1959 until
about 1962(xxii)
Rabbi Norman Zalud (part-time)
- from about 1975 until about 2008, and thereafter rabbi emeritus(xxiii)
Rabbi M. Mayer - from about 2011
until at least about 2015
(xxiv)
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Lay Officers:
(to c.1950s)(xxx)
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Presidents
c.1929-c.1932 - Herbert J. Davis, CC, HP(xxxi)
c.1932-c.1936 - E.A. Behrend
c.1936-c.1939 - Herbert Wolf
circa 1939/40 - S.H. Gluckstein
c.1945-c.1948 - Harry Gershon(xxxii)
c.1948-c.1949 - M.S. Yates
c.1949-c.1950 - Harry Gershon(xxxii)
c.1950-c.1952 - J. Bramson
c.1952-c.1955 - S.E. Goldsmith
c.1955 to at least 1956 - D. Rich
Hon. President
c.1930-1935 - Dr. Claude G. Montefiore, MA
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Treasurers
c.1929-c.1946 - M.S. Yates
c.1946-c.1953 - Reginald L. Sington
c.1953-c.1955 - B.A. Simpson
c.1955 to at least 1956 - L. Greenman & B.A. Simpson
Hon. Secreataries(xxxiii)
c.1929-c.1940 - E. Gabriel Jones, M.Sc.
c.1946-c.1948 - M.S. Yates
c.1948-c.1949 - Harry Gershon(xxxii)
c.1949-c,1952 - A. Simpson
c.1952-c.1955 - J. Bramson
c.1955-c.1956 - B. Caplan &Mrs. W. Hafkin
c.1956 to at least 1957 - Mrs. W. Hafkin
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Vice Presidents
c.1929-1930 -
Hon. Lily Montagu;
A. Beer; Prof. Ian Morris Heilbron, DSO;
B. Stern
Hon. Vice Presidents
c.1930-at least 1935 -
Hon. Lily Montagu;
A. Beer;
Bertie Heilbron; B. Stern
Vice Presidents
c.1930-c.1932 - E.A. Behrend; S.H. Gluckstein; Prof. Ian Morris Heilbron, DSO
c.1932-c.1936 - S.H. Gluckstein; Prof. Ian Morris Heilbron, DSO
c.1936-c.1937 - S.H. Gluckstein; Prof. Ian Morris Heilbron, DSO
c.1938-c.1939 - E.A. Behrend; S.H. Gluckstein
c.1938-c.1945 - E.A. Behrend; H. Wolf
c.1946-c.1949 - E.A. Behrend; S.H. Gluckstein; H. Wolf;
Lieut. Col. R.A.L. Cohen
c.1949-c.1952 - E.A. Behrend; H. Wolf; Sir Ian Morris Heilbron
c.1952-c.1954 - E.A. Behrend; Sir Ian Morris Heilbron
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Membership Data
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General
1999 - 167 (as reported by Board of Deputies)
National Reports and Surveys(xxxvii)
1977 - 111 male (or household) members and
91 female members
1983 - 108 male (or household)
members and an estimated 107 female members
1990 - 158 members (comprising 88 households,
35 individual male and 35 individual female members)
1996 - 120 members (comprising
60 households, 25 individual male and 35 individual female
members)
2010 - listed as having 100 to 199 members (by household)
2016 - listed as having 200 to 299 members (by household)
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Charitable Status:
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The congregation is a registered charity
(no. 1098181), registered on 24 June 2003. The governing
document is the congregation's constitution adopted 27 Aptil
2003 as amended 25 September 2005.(xxxviii)
Although, according to one source it
was removed from the register on 9 September 2009, but
was clearly reinststed.(xxxix)
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