Congregation Data |
Name: |
Mosaic Reform Synagogue (since 2014)(i)
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Former Name: |
Middlesex New Synagogue
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Address: |
39 Bessborough Road, Harrow HA1 3BS (from 1962, new
building dedicated 1977)
Since June 2011, the
Mosaic Reform Synagogue (formerly the Harrow and Wembley Progressive
Synagogue) has shared these premises and
it has became the shared administrative address of all three Mosaic congregations, see
below.(ii)
In October 2018, it was announced that the congregation, together
with the other two "Mosaic" congregations, will be relocating to a new purpose-built complex at 65 Stanmore
Hill, Stanmore, for which planning permission was approved in January
2020. The move is expected to take place in the first half of 2022.(iii) |
Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
1959(iv) |
Ritual: |
Reform |
Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of the Movement for Reform Judaism (formerly the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain).
Mosaic Jewish Community
Since 2014, the congregation has been part of the Mosaic Jewish Community (website -
http://choosemosaic.org/), which also includes
Mosaic Liberal Synagogue (formerly Harrow and Wembley Progressive Synagogue) and the
Mosaic Masorti Synagogue (the
Hatch End Masorti Synagogue). Centred in and around the London Borough of Harrow,
Mosaic offers "one community with three strands of Judaism."(vi) |
Website: |
https://choosemosaic.org/reform/ |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or assistant minister who also served other UK congregations - name in
blue - hold the cursor over his or her name.) |
Rabbi Lionel Blue
- 1961 to 1964
(first minister of the Congregation)(viii)
Rabbi Michael Goulston
- 1965 to 1968(ix)
Rabbi Michael Standfield
- 1971 to 1986(x)
Rabbi Simon J. Franses
- 1987 to 2008, and thereafter rabbi emeritus until 2009(xi)
Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton
- 2008 to present (February 2022)(xii)
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Assistant or Student Rabbis: |
Rabbi Ady Assabi(xiv)
- student rabbi from 1969 to 1971
Rabbi Larry Alan Tabick
- assistant rabbi 1981 to 1986(xv)
Rabbi Lisa Barrett
- part-time assistant rabbi in about 2011(xvi) |
Membership Data: |
National Results & Survey(xix)
1977 - 455 male members and an estimated 456 female members
1983 - 685 male (or household) members and 119 female members
1990 - 822 members (households)
1996 - 738 members (450 households, 93 individual male and 195 individual female members)
2010 - listed as having 500 to 749 members (by household)
2016 - listed as having 300 to 399 members (by household) |
Legal and Charitable Status: |
On 23 December 2013, the congregation was incorporated as a private
company (company number: 08825271) limited by guarantee without share
capital, initially under the name of The New Reform Synagogue
Limited, changing its name on 19 November 2014 to
Mosaic Reform Synagogue (with use of 'Limited'
exemption).(xx)
It is also a registered charity,
its current registration dating from 20 November 2014 (registered charity
number: 1159303). The governing documents are the Company's Memorandum &
Articles Association.(xxi)
The congregation's previous registration as a registered charity,
under the name Middlesex New Synagogue was
from 7 September 1999 (registered charity
number: 1077299), which was removed from the register on 16 October
2018.(xxii)
With effect from 3 January 2016, all such charity's assets and
liabilities were transferred to the new entity.(xxiii) (There had also been an
earlier registration under no: 69041.(xxiv))
In addition,
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).(xxv)
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Local Government
Districts: |
Bessborough Road is in the London Borough of Harrow,
an Outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965. Prior thereto, it was in the
former Municipal Borough of Harrow (incorporated in 1954 and coextensive with the
London borough), within the former County of Middlesex.
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Registration District (BMD): |
Harrow (since formation of
congregation) -
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery Information: |
The congregation has "London Synagogue" membership of the
Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS),
which includes rights of
burial at one of the Society's cemeteries, in particular the
Western Cemetery, Bulls Cross Ride, Cheshunt. There is also generally the option (through the JJBS) of a Woodland Burial in Cheshunt
or cremation at Golders Green Crematorium. |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to this Congregation
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Annual Reports filed with Companies House and /or the Charities Commission (pdf):
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Annual Reports of Mosaic Jewish Community Limited filed with
Companies House and /or the Charities Commission (pdf):
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Bibliography - London Borough of Harrow.
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List of Reform Judaism Congregations
List of Member Synagogues of the Jewish Joint Burial Society
Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Harrow
Jewish Congregations in Greater London (other than East End)
Greater London home page
Page created: 31 October 2006
Data significantly expanded: 8 March 2015: Notes first added: 25 November 2018
Latest revision or update: 28 February 2022
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