Congregation Data |
Name: |
Shir Hayim (translation "A Song of
Life") |
Former Name: |
Hampstead Reform Jewish Community (until
1998(i)) |
Address: |
37a Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, London NW6 3BN
(since about 1986(ii)) |
Previous Address: |
56 Lymington Road, West Hampstead, London NW6
(from at least 1983 until about 1986)(iii) |
Current Status: |
In January 2018, an informal, (initially) year-long,
partnership began with
the Willesden Minyan.
In December 2018, it was decided that the two congregations would form a
single community, which became effective in 2019,(iv)
which took the name Makor Hayim. |
Date Founded: |
1975(v) |
Ritual: |
Reform |
Affiliation: |
The congregation was a constituent synagogue of the
Movement for Reform
Judaism (formerly the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain). |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister - hold
the cursor over his or her name.) |
Rabbi Larry Alan Tabick
(first term of office) - 1976 until 1980 (vi)
Rabbi Barbara Macy Borts
- about 1982 until about 1984(vii)
Rabbi Samuel Rodrigues-Periera
- about 1986 until about 1988(viii)
Rabbi Thomas Salamon
- about 1988 until about 1990(ix)
Rabbi Larry Alan Tabick (second term of office)
- 1990 until 31 December 2017(vi) |
Membership Data: |
National Reports & Surveys(xiv)
1977 - 33 male members and an estimated 33 female members
1983 - 54 male members and an estimated 54 female members
1990 - 100 members (households)
1996 - 73 members (comprising 34 households, 9 individual male and 30 individual female members)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 50 to 99 members (by household)
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Charitable Status: |
As
of April 2022, the
congregation is still a
registered unincorporated charity (no.1091151), under the name,
Shir Hayim-Hampstead Reform Jewish Community,
registered on 15 March 2002. The governing document
is the congregation's constitution adopted 24 March 2001, as subsequently
amended.(xv) |
Local Government District: |
West Hampstead, a district in Northwest London, is in the London Borough of Camden,
an Inner London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the
administrative area of Greater London. |
Registration District (BMD): |
Camden(xvi)
- Link to
Register Office website |
Cemetery Information: |
Membership of the synagogue includes burial rights through the
Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS) at one of its cemeteries,
principally the Western Cemetery in Cheshunt. There is
also the option (through the JJBS) of a Woodland Burial in Cheshunt or cremation at Golders Green Crematorium. |
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