JCR-UK

West London Synagogue of British Jews

Upper Berkeley Street, London W.1.

Ministers of the Congregation
Reproduced with kind permission of West London Synagogue. Photographs © WLS

Prepared for JCR-UK by Louise Messik
Latest update or revision: 24 November 2011

The Rev. Professor David Woolf Marks
Senior Minister 1840-1893

The Rev. Albert Löwy
Second Minister 1842-1892

The Rev. Philip Magnus
Assistant Minister 1866-1880

The Rev. Isidore Harris
Assistant Minister 1881-1925

The Rev. Morris Joseph
Senior Minister 1893-1930

The Rev. Vivian Simmons
Assistant Minister 1913-1942

Rabbi Joel Blau
Assistant Minister 1924

Rabbi Harold F. Reinhart
Senior Minister 1929-1957

Rabbi Bruno Italiener
Assistant Minister 1941-1949

Rabbi Curtis Cassell
Second Minister 1948-1957

Rabbi Andre Ungar
Assistant Minister 1952-1955

Rabbi Louis J. Cashdan
Assisted 1939-1942

Rabbi Hermann Schreiber
Assisted 1941

Rabbi Arthur Katz
Assisted 1942-1947

Rabbi Michael Curtis
Assisted 1948-1971

Rabbi Alan Miller
Assisted 1955-1959

Rabbi Stanley Dreyfus
Assisted 1949

Rabbi John Levi
Assisted 1957-1958

Rabbi Bernard Heller
Assisted 1957

Rabbi Harold Saperstein
Assisted 1957: 1980/81: 1982/83

Rabbi Werner Van Der Zyl
Senior Minister 1958-1968

Rabbi Michael Leigh
Assistant Minister 1958-1963

Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Assistant Minister 1964-1968

Rabbi Wolfe Kelman
Assisted 1957-1958

Rabbi Shamai Kanter
Assisted 1958

Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum
Assisted 1958

Rabbi Charles Berg
Assisted 1958

Rabbi E.S. Rosenblum
Assisted 1958

Rabbi Marim B. Charry
Assisted 1960-1962

Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Senior Minister 1968-1996 Died in Office

Rabbi Michael Goulston
Assistant Minister 1968-1972 Died in Office

Rabbi Thomas Salamon
Assistant Minister 1972-1975

Rabbi Mrs Jacqueline Tabick
Associate Minister 1975-1999

Rabbi A. Daniel Smith
Associate Minister 1977-1982

Rabbi William Wolff
Associate Minister 1984-1986

Rabbi Robert Shafritz
Associate Minister 1987-1993

Rabbi Sonny Herman
Assisted 1969

Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Assisted 1972-1974

Rabbi Henry Goldstein
Assisted 1973

Rabbi Lionel Blue
Assisted 1974-1977

Rabbi Reuven Silverman
Assisted 1974

Rabbi Colin Eimer
Assisted 1975-1976

Rabbi Alan Podet
Assisted 1976/77: 1986/87

Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
Assisted 1981-1982

Rabbi Larry Tabick
Assisted 1990

Rabbi Mark Winer
Senior Rabbi 1998-2010

Rabbi Helen Freeman
Rabbi 1999-2010
Principal Rabbi 2010-

Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
Rabbi 2009-

Rabbi David Mitchell
Rabbi 2011-

Rabbi Michael Farbman
Assistant Rabbi 2001-2004

Rabbi Roderick Young
Assistant Rabbi 2004-2006

Rabbi Josh Levy
Assistant Rabbi (Education) 2004-2008

Rabbi Malcolm Cohen
Assistant Rabbi 2006-2009

Rabbi Danny Burkeman
Assistant Rabbi 2009-2011

Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE
(Baroness Neuberger)
Senior Rabbi 2011-

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