Woodford Forest United Synagogue

Name:

Woodford Forest United Synagogue

Address:

20 Churchfields, South Woodford, London E18 2QZ (which had been the address of the Wanstead and Woodford United Synagogue)⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

Formed in February 2015 on the merger of Wanstead & Woodford United Synagogue and Waltham Forest Hebrew Congregation (a congregation affiliated to the Federation of Synagogues)^(iv)

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from formation.

Website:

https://www.wfus.org.uk/

Rabbinical Team:
(To view a short profile of a minister - hold the cursor over his name.)

Rabbi Yaakov Singer - interim minister, for a few months from February 2015^(vii)

Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg and Rebbetzen Blima Wollenberg - Rabbinic Couple from 2015 until present (August 2024)^(viii)

Membership:

Press Reports

2015 - 1,200 members^(xi)

National Reports and Surveys^(xii)

2016 - listed as having 750 to 999 members (by household)

Charitable Status:

As a constituent of the United Synagogue, the congregation operates within that organisation's registered charity status (registered charity no. 242552).

Local Government District:

South Woodford, a suburb of Woodford in northeast London, is in the London Borough of Redbridge, an Outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London. Previously, South Woodford was in the Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford (incorporated as a borough in 1937) within the County of Essex

Bibliography -  Redbridge

Registration District (BMD):

Redbridge - Link to Register Office website

Cemetery
Information:

For United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue.