Congregation Data |
Name: |
Finchley United Synagogue(ii)
also known as
Kinloss Synagogue |
Former or Alternative Names: |
Finchley Synagogue
(from about 1931 until 1935 and from 1950)(iii)
Finchley District Synagogue
(from 1935 until 1950)(iv)
Finchley Hebrew Congregation
(until about 1931)(v) |
Address: |
Kinloss Gardens, Finchley N3 3DU (consecrated 1935, new
building 1967)
previously at 7 Crescent Road(vii), from
about 1931 |
Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
By 1929(viii) |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox (although there are also
Sephardi services at the Synagogue - see "Persian Minyan" below) |
Affiliation: |
Initially independent. Joined the
United Synagogue, as a district synagogue, in 1935,
achieving constituent (full member) status in 1950.(ix) |
Web Site: |
http://www.kinloss.org.uk |
Senior Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or cantor
whose name appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rev. Benjamin Wykansky
- from about 1929 to about 1932(xiv)
Rev. Marcus M. Goldberg
- from about 1932 to about 1933(xv)
Rabbi Dr. Israel Porusch
- from 1934 to 1939(xvi)
Rev. M. Bloch
(temporary) - from about 1945 to about 1947(xvii)
Rabbi Dr. Benjamin J. Gelles
- from about 1948 to 1981(xviii)
Rabbi Isaac Joel Bernstein
- from 1981 to 1994(xix)
Rabbi Ephraim Yitzchak Mirvis
- 1996 to 2013(xx)
Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence
- 2014 to 2023(xxi)
Rabbi Yisroel Yaacov Fine
(temporary part time) - from May 2023(xxii)
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Assistant Rabbis: |
Rabbi Michael Laitner
- assistant rabbi from 2013 to 2023(xxvi)
Rabbi Nisan Andrews
- associate rabbi from November 2017 to May 2019(xxvii)
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Readers/Chazanim (Cantors): |
Rev. M. Fried - from about 1937 until about 1940(xxx)
Rev. Abraham Isaac Jacob Rosenfeld
- from 1941 to about 1970(xxxi)
Rev. Naftali Herstik
- from about 1972 to about 1978(xxxiii)
Rev. Moshe Haschel
- from 1988 to about 1993(xxxiii)
Rev. Eli Sufrin
- from 2003 to present (May 2023)(xxxiv) |
Persian Minyan(xxxv): |
Under
arrangements agreed in 2010, the Finchley Persian Sephardi Minyan,
which for some years previously had operated out of the synagogue in
Kinloss Gardens, formally joined Finchley Synagogue as a satellite
community. The Persian Minyan holds services (in the Persian Sephardi
tradition) in its own fully refurbished synagogue within the Finchley
Synagogue complex. Under the arrangements, members of the
Persian Minyan are entitled to full United Synagogue membership status
and Finchley Synagogue members' benefits. This was the first formal
arrangement between the United Synagogue and a Sephardi congregation.
The Attendant Rabbi of the Minyan, since at least 2010 until the present (May 2023), is
Rabbi Leibush Heller..(xxxvi) |
Lay Officers:(xl) |
Early Executive Officers
1930-1932 - H.M. Grant (President)
1930-1931 - P.V.. Tobias (Vice-President)
1931-1932 - M.A.. Morris (Vice-President)
1932-1933 - H.J. Morgenstern (Chairman)
1932-1933 - M. Bucks (Vice-Chairman)
Wardens
1932-1934 - H.J. Morgenstern & M. Bucks
1934-1936 - R. Lipman & I. Sheppard
1936-1937 - D. Morley & A. Samuels
1937-1938 - D. Morley
1938-1939 - A. Bard & R. Lipman
1939-1940 - R. Lipman & D. Morley
1940-1945 - War Years, no data
1945-1946 - P. Woolfson & S. Davis
1946-1949 - P. Woolfson & H. Godfrey
1949-1952 - L.B. Cowan & S. Davis
1952-1956 - S.S. Levin & S. Davis
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Treasurers / Financial Representatives(xli)
1930-1933 - A. King Hamilton
1933-1934 - M.A. Morris
1934-1936 - D. Morley
1936-1937 - S.J. Lambert
1937-1938 - E. Raeburn
1940-1945 - War Years, no data
1945-1947 - L.B. Cowan
1947-1949 - K. Gulperin
1949-1953 - D.W. Jayson
1953-1955 - A.S. Cohen
1955-1956 - M. Nathan
Hon. Secretaries / Secretaries(xlii)
1932-1934 - I. Amswych
1934-1938 - E. Raeburn
1938-1953 - A. Soester(xliii)
1953-1957 - D.S. Preston(xliv)
1957-1963 - M. Sagal(xlv)
1964-1965 - S. Silver
1966-1986 - A. Becker
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Membership Data: |
United Synagogue
(male seat-holders)(xlix)
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
279 |
782 |
1,220 |
1,242 |
National Reports & Surveys(l)
1977 - 1,042 male (or household) members and 509 female members
1983 - 1,050 male (or household) members and 600 female members
1990 - 1,503 members (comprising 1,469 households, 28 individual male and 6 individual female members)
1996 - 1,219 members (comprising 1.107 households, 73 individual male and 39 individual female members)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 1,000 to 1,499 members (by household)
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Congregation's Newsletter: |
Kol Kinloss. Can be viewed online
from February 2018 at
http://www.kinloss.org.uk/kol-kinloss |
Charitable Status: |
As a constituent of the United Synagogue, the
congregation operates within that organisation's registered charity
status (registered charity no. 242552).
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Local Government
Districts: |
Finchley, a residential suburb in
Northwest London, is in the London Borough of Barnet(li) and was
(until 1965) in the former Municipal Borough of Finchley.
Bibliography - Barnet |
Registration District (BMD): |
Barnet(lii) -
Link to Register Office website.
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Cemetery Information: |
For
United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue. |
Notes &
Sources (↵
returns to text above)
|
List of United Synagogue Congregations
Jewish Congregations in Finchley (London Borough of Barnet)
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 November 2006
Data significantly expanded and
notes first added: 29 March 2018
Page most recently amended: 1 December 2024
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