Mosaic Jewish Community

Community Data

Mosaic Jewish Community

One community with three strands of Judaism under a single roof. The constituent congregations are:

Mosaic Masorti Synagogue

Mosaic Reform Synagogue

Mosaic Liberal Synagogue

For details and history to 2022, please see under the individual synagogues.

1a Halsbury Close, 65 Stanmore Hill, HA7 3DY ⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

A purpose-built complex comprising all three congregations. The site was acquired in 2018^(iv) and planning permission for the complex was granted in January 2020.^(v) The ceremonial laying of the first three bricks took place in June 2021^(vi) and the first services, of the Reform congregation, the largest component, were held in October 2022^(vii) with the other congregations following shortly thereafter.

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The Mosaic Jewish Community was formed by the constituent synagogues in 2014,^(viii) although the process of coming together as a single community was a gradual one, not finally achieved until the move to the Stanmore Hill complex in 2022.

Non-orthodox, however, each of the constituent synagogues follows a different strand of Judaism.

The constituent synagogues are respectively members of Masorti Judaism, the Movement for Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism (the latter two organisations having announced in April 2023 their intention to merge).

Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton - Rabbi of Reform Mosaic (formerly Middlesex New Synagogue) from 2008 until present (May 2023)^(xii)

Rabbi Rachel Benjamin - Rabbi of Liberal Mosaic from 2020 until present (May 2023)^(xiii)

Rabbi Anthony Lazarus Magrill - Rabbi of Masorti Mosaic from July 2022 until present (May 2023)^(xiv)

Rabbi Anna Wolfson - Mosaic Development Rabbi from January 2022 until present (May 2023)^(xv)

Mosaic Jewish Community Limited (company no. 08825132) is a registered private company, incorporated on 23 December 2013 as the New Jewish Community Limited, changing its name on 8 April 2014. It is also a registered charity (no. 1157109), registered (standard registration) on 19 May 2014.

Stanmore is in the London Borough of Harrow, an Outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965.

Harrow (since formation of congregation) - Link to Register Office website

The Cemetery Information on webpages of the respective constituent synagogues.

Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)

• (i) and (ii) Reserved.

• (iii) Mosaic Jewish Community's website, last accessed 14 May 2023. ↵

• (iv) Mosaic Jewish Community's website, accessed 23 November 2018. ↵

• (v) Jewish Chronicle report of 30 January 2020, entitled "Pioneering community set for move to Stanmore". ↵

• (vi) Jewish Chronicle report of 24 June 2021, entitled "Three congregations build to shared future in Stanmore". ↵

• (vii) Jewish Chronicle report of 31 October 2022, entitled "'Unique step for Anglo-Jewry' as Reform, Liberal and Masorti community opens its new Stanmore home". ↵

• (viii) Community's website, accessed 23 November 2018. ↵

• (ix) to (xi) Reserved.

• (xii) Rabbi Kathleen's profile on the Community's website, last accessed 14 May 2023. ↵

• (xiii) Rabbi Rachel's profile on the Community's website, last accessed 14 May 2023. ↵

• (xiv) Rabbi Anthony Magrill's profile on the Community's website, last accessed 14 May 2023. ↵

• (xv) Rabbi Anna's profile profile on the Community's website, last accessed 14 May 2023. She will spend around a quarter of her time at Mosaic Liberal working alongside Rabbi Rachel. ↵