Thanet & District Reform Synagogue

Name

Thanet & District Reform Synagogue

Former Names

Thanet & District Reform Jewish Synagogue and Thanet & District Reform Jewish Community⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

Hebrew Name

Etz Chaim⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾ ("Tree of Life")

Address:

293A Margate Road, Ramsgate, CT12 6TE^(iv)

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

1985^(v)

Ritual:

Reform

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the the Movement for Reform Judaism (formerly known as the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (RSGB)), having been initially (until 1990) an associate community.^(vi)

Website:

http://tdrs.org.uk/

Ministers:

(To view a short profile of a minister who also served other UK congregations - name in blue - hold the cursor over his or her name.)

Rabbi Sonny Herman - served many years as part-time rabbi, was rabbi emeritus from 2007 to 2009^(x)

Rabbi Hadassah Davis - dates currently unknown^(xi)

Rabbi Cliff Cohen - 2003 to present (February 2020)^(xii)

Congregation's Newsletter:

Etz Chaim

Membership Data

National Reports and Surveys^(xvi)

1990 - 69 members (households)

1996 - 81 members (comprising 62 households, 5 individual male and 14 individual female members)

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

2016 - listed as having under 50 members (by household)

Charitable Status:

The congregation is a registered charity (no. 294859), under the name Thanet And District Reform Jewish Synagogue, registered on 25 July 1986. The governing document is the congregation's constitution dated 25 June 1986, as amended 29 March 2015.^(xvii)

Registration District (BMD):

Kent (since 1 April 2004)^(xviii)  - 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.

The congregation uses a dedicated section, sometimes referred to as the Reform Hebrew Section (part of section LIII), at the Margate (St. John's) Cemetery, Manston Road, Margate CT9 4LZ, which commenced in 1986.^(xix)

(See also IAJGS International Jewish Cemeteries Project - Margate)