Congregation Data(i)
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Name: |
Mill Hill United Synagogue
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Former Names(ii): |
Mill Hill Synagogue (from about 1977 to at least 2014)
Mill Hill District Synagogue (from 1960 until about 1977)
Mill Hill & District Hebrew Congregation (from 1950 until 1960)
Mill Hill Hebrew Congregation (until 1950) |
Address: |
The congregation's address is
Station Road, Mill Hill NW7 2JU.
In 1952, the congregation purchased (for £7,500) an old house
known as "Whyteleafe", I Sylvan Avenue, Mill Hill,
which is a corner plot extending from Sylvan Close along Station Road
and backing onto Brockenhurst Gardens. The house was was
converted into a synagogue and consecrated in 1955.
The building was
further expanded over subsequent years and in the late 1960 worked
commenced on the erection of a new purpose built synagogue on the site
with its main entrance in Brockenhurst Gardens, which was consecrated on
28th November 1971, and the congregation commenced using
Brockenhurst Gardens, Mill Hill, London NW7 2JY as its address.
Further development took place and was completed in
2013, with extensive refurbishing in 2014 and 2015, and the congregation
commenced using Station Road as its address.(iii)
Prior to the purchase of "Whyteleafe", services were held in a private
house at 584 Watford Way, Mill Hill NW7.l
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Current Status: |
Active
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Date Formed: |
June 1949 |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox
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Affiliation: |
Joined the
United Synagogue
as an affiliated synagogue in 1950, subsequently becoming a district
synagogue in 1960.(iii)
In about 1976, all existing district synagogues, including the congregation, received constituent (full member) status.
(A second United Synagogue congregation in Mill Hill -
Mill Hill East Jewish Community, was founded in 2016.) |
Website: |
http://www.shul.co.uk |
Ministers & Rabbinical Team:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or cantor whose name appears in blue
- hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rev. Louis Jakob
(part-time)
- from 1949 until 1953(viii)
Rev. Ivor L. Abrams
(part-time)
- from 1953 until about 1958/9(ix)
Rev. (later Rabbi) Shlomo P. Cutler
(& Rebbetzen Judith Cutler) -
from 1959 until 1993(x)
Rabbi Yitzchak Y. Schochet, MA
(& Rebbetzen Chani Schochet) - from
1993 until present (October 2021)(xi)
Rabbi David Rose
(& Rebbetzen Talya Rose) - Assistant Rabbi from
July 2018 until present (October 2021)(xii) |
Readers (Cantors): |
Rev. Michael Binstock
- assistant reader in mid-1960s(xiv)
Rev. Dov Speier
- from about 1978 until about 1980(xv)
Rev. Richard Rosten
- from about 1980 until about 1982(xvi)
Rev. Stephen Cotsen
- from about 1982 until about 1984(xvii)
Rev. Daniel Rosenthal
- from about 1987 until about 1990(xviii)
Rev. M. Simon
- from about 1991 until about 1994(xix)
Rev. Jonny Turgel (part-time)
- from about 2005 to about 2007(xx) |
Lay Officers (to
1950s):(xxi) |
Chairman
1949-1951 -
J.S. Burke
Wardens
1951-1952 - J.S. Burke & K. Beutel
1952-1954 - J.S. Burke & D.A. Brill
1954-1955 - D.A. Brill & N. Goldrich
1955-1956 - D.A. Brill & V. Landau
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Financial Representative
1949-1952 - S. Goldrich
1952-1954 - N. Goldrich
1954-1956 - M. Maltz
Hon. Secretaries
1949-1958 - E. Lewis
1958-1971 - M. Guest
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Membership Data: |
United Synagogue
(male seat-holders)(xxiv)
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
65 |
267 |
374 |
Congregation's Website
(xxv)
1952 |
1960 |
75 families |
238 families |
National Reports & Surveys(xxvi)
1977 - 416 male (or household) members and 84 female members
1983 - 468 male (or household) members and 106 female members
1990 - 608 members (comprising 599 households, 8 individual male and 1 individual female member)
1996 - 654 members (comprising 616 households, 23 individual male and 15 individual female members)
2010 - listed as having 750 to 999 members (by household)
2016 - listed as having 1,000 to 1,499 members (by household) |
Charitable Status:
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As a constituent of the United Synagogue, the
congregation operates within that organisation's registered charity
status (registered charity no. 242552). However, the congregation had
its own general charitable
trust - Mill Hill Synagogue and Amenities Fund, a
former registered charity (no. 1034856), which had been registered on
10 March 1994 and was removed from the register on 11 November 2008.(xxviii) |
Local Government District:
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Mill Hill, a residential suburb in Northwest London
just to the east of Edgware, is in the London Borough of Barnet,(xxix)
and was (until 1965) in the former Municipal Borough of Hendon.
Bibliography - Barnet
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Registration District (BMD):
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Barnet(xxx) -
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
For United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue. |
Notes &
Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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List of United Synagogue Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Barnet
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 October 2006
Data significantly expanded and
notes first added: 13 May 2018
Subsequent significantly expansion of data: 7 June 2020
Latest revision or update: 4 April 2024
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