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Sukkat Shalom, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Liberal Community Synagogue

Edinburgh, Scotland

Updated 20 December 2006

Congregation Data

Name: Sukkat Shalom, Edinburgh - the Edinburgh Liberal Community Synagogue
Former Name: The Edinburgh Reform Hebrew Community
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Current Status: Active
Formation, Affiliation & Brief History Late 1970's - Edinburgh members of the Glasgow New (Reform) Synagogue hold Friday evening services  in each other's homes.
1997 - congregation formalized with assistance from the Glasgow New Synagogue, to which the congregation becomes affiliated and hence, indirectly, to the RSGB.
Congregation becomes known a the Edinburgh Reform Hebrew Community.
September 2002 - congregation adopts the name Sukkat Shalom, Edinburgh.
March 2004 - congregation becomes unaffiliated, as an independent progressive congregation.
September 2004 - congregation becomes affiliated to Liberal Judaism.
Ritual: Progressive (Liberal)
Affiliation Liberal Judaism (formerly Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues)
Web Site: http://www.eljc.org

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