Milton Keynes & District Reform Synagogue

Name

Milton Keynes & District Reform Synagogue

Hebrew Name:

Beit Echud ("A House United")

Original Name

Milton Keynes Reform Synagogue⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

Address:

1 Hainault Avenue, Giffard Park, Milton Keynes MK14 5PQ

(A purpose built synagogue, first services held on 17 August 2002.)⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

Previously, services held in hired meeting halls, primarily in Shenley Brook and before that, in Tinkers Bridge for about ten years from 1988. Initially services were held in members' homes.^(iv)

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

1978^(v)

Ritual:

Reform

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the the Movement for Reform Judaism, formerly the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (RSGB)

Website:

http://www.mkdrs.org.uk

Satellite Community:

In the late 1980 and/or early 1990s, a small satellite community under the congregation's jurisdiction was founded in Kettering.^(viii)

Congregation Newsletter:

"Listen"

Ministers:

(To view a short profile of a minister - hold the cursor over his or her name.)

Rabbi William Wolff - from November 1990 to 1993^(ix)

Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu - part time from 2006 to 2016^(x)

Membership Data

National Reports and Surveys^(xiv)

1983 - 25 male (or household) members and estimated 25 female members

1990 - 73 members (comprising 64 households, 2 individual male and 7 individual female members)

1996 - 73 members (comprising 61 households, 7 individual males and 5 individual female members)

2010 & 2016 - listed as having 50 to 99 members (by household)

Charitable Status:

The congregation is a registered charity (no. 1058193), registered on 23 September 1996. Its governing document is the congregation's constitution dated 28 June 1978, as amended 23 May 1994.^(xv)

Registration District (BMD):

Milton Keynes (since 1 April 1985)^(xvi)  - Link to Register Office website.

Group for Marriage Certification: West London Synagogue.

Cemetery
Information:

The congregation is a member synagogue of the Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS), through which the congregation's members participate in a burial scheme.

There in no Jewish cemetery in Milton Keynes nor elsewhere in Buckinghamshire.

However, see London Cemeteries of the Movement for Reform Judaism