Congregation Data |
Name: |
Southgate Progressive Synagogue
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Former Names: |
Southgate & District Liberal Synagogue
(from about 1950 until about 1989(i))
Southgate & Enfield Progressive Synagogue
(until about 1950(ii))
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Address: |
75 Chase Road, Oakwood, London N14 4QY
The site was acquired in 1954 and an initial synagogue was built in 1959. The original house, named Richard Michael House, is now used as administrative offices, by the Religion School
and other Synagogue groups. In what was the large garden is now the site of the Schindler Hall which provides High Holyday seating. The present
purpose-built synagogue, opened in 1989, is situated at the side of the house.(iii)
The congregation's previous address was the Community Hall, Green
Road, Chase Side, Southgate, London N.14(iv) |
Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
1943(v) |
Ritual: |
Liberal Progressive |
Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of
Liberal Judaism (formerly the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues- ULPS) from, or from shortly following, its founding. |
Website: |
http://www.sps.uk.com/ |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or cantor who also served other UK congregations - name in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rabbi Dr. Rudolph Brasch
- from early 1940s until about 1946(vii)
Rabbi Jakob Jankel Kokotek
- about 1946 until about 1948(viii)
S. Solomons
- about 1948 until about 1956(ix)
Rabbi Harry Jacobi
- from about 1956 until about 1975(x)
Rabbi C. Cohen
- from about 1975 until about 1984(xi)
Rabbi Stephen Howard
- from about 1987 until about 2010(xii)
Rabbi Yuval Keren
- from July 2012 until present (January 2020)(xiii)
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Reader/Cantor: |
Rev. E. Lewandowski
- from about 1946 until about 1956(xv)
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Membership Data: |
National Reports & Surveys(xvi)
1977 - 379 male (or household) members and 33 female members
1983 - 390 male (or household) members and 37 female members
1990 - 740 members (comprising 366 households, 314 individual male and 60 individual female members)
1996 - 550 members (households)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 500 to 749 members (by household)
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Charitable Status: |
The congregation is a registered charity (no. 239096),
registered on 31 March 1965. The governing documents are the congregation's
Deed of Trust dated 20 November 1953 and its Constitution amended 10 February
2005 and 26 June 2008.(xvii)
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Local Government
District: |
The North London suburb of Southgate (including the area of Oakwood) is
in the southwest of the
London Borough of Enfield and was previously (until 1965) in the
former
Municipal Borough of Southgate (incorporated as a borough in 1933,
previously the Urban District of Southgate from 1894) in the former
County of Middlesex.(xviii)
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Registration District (BMD): |
Enfield(xix) -
Link to Register Office website
Worship Number: 64128 |
Cemetery Information: |
SeeLondon Cemeteries of Liberal Judaism. |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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On-line Articles
and Other Material
relating to this Congregation
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List of Liberal Judaism Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Enfield
Jewish Congregations in Greater London (other than East End)
Greater London home page
Page created: 26 October 2006
Data significantly expanded and notes added: 16 September 2018
Latest revision or update: 5 January 2020
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