North Salford Synagogue

Congregation Data⁽ⁱ⁾

Name:

North Salford Synagogue (from 1941)

Alternative or Former Names:

Vine Street Synagogue (from 1953 to present)
Ramsgate Street Synagogue (1914 to 1953)
New Roumanian Synagogue - Beis Hakenesses Beis Yisroel (from 1914 to 1941)
Roumanian Synagogue (until 1914)
New Roumanian Sephardic Synagogue (1899 until 1914)
Kenesses Beis Yaakov (alternative name from 1899)
Roumanian Shul (or Shleibel)

Address:

2 Vine Street (corner Bury New Road), Kersal, Salford, M7 0NX⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

(The congregation is considered part of the "North Manchester" Jewish community.)

Former Addresses:

Ramsgate Street, Lower Broughton, Salford, M7, from at 1914 until 1953 consecrated by Haham Moses Gaster in 1919).

68a Waterloo Road, Manchester M8, from 1905 to 1914.

Bridden Street, Strangeways, Manchester, from 1888 to 1905.

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

1888, consecrated in 1889⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox, but apparently originally used Nusach Sephard

Website:

http://www.vinestreetshul.co.uk

Ministers:

Rabbi Jacob Shachter - 1920 to 1926.

Rabbi David Ochs - 1940 to 1946.

Rabbi Lippa Rabinowitz - 1961 to 2006.

Rabbi Elozor Stefansky - 2008 to present (February 2017).

Chazanim:

Rev. Aaron Gross - 1920s to 1960s.

Rev. Shimon Halpern - 1960s.

Rev. Simon Cutler - 1972 to 1997.

Rev Shlomo Chrysler - 1990s to 2008

Rev. Zevi Kraushar - 2008 to present (February 2017)

Breakaway Congregation:

Beis Yisroel Synagogue in Great Ducie Street from 1905 to 1914 (when the congregations reunited)

Membership Data:

Early 1950s - 60 members (Congregation's website)

Marriage Certification:

Worship Number: 64930
Registration District: Salford

Local Authority:

Kersal and Ramsgate Street are both in Salford, in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester (which no longer has any administrative powers).

From 1889 to 1974, Salford was a county borough (a unitary authority), geographically (although not administratively) within the county of Lancashire.