Congregation Data |
Name: |
Buckhurst Hill Masorti Synagogue |
Former & Alternative Names: |
New Essex Masorti Synagogue
(generally used until about 2011, and still used as an alternative name)(i) New Essex Masorti Congregation
(name until December 2005)(ii) |
Address: |
The Woollard Centre, 50 Loughton Way, Buckhurst
Hill, Essex IG9 4AB(iii) |
Previous Addresses: |
Roding Valley Hall, Station Way, Buckhurst
Park, Essex IG9
6LN (until about 2011)(iv) Services held at Prince Regent Hotel, Woodford
Bridge, Essex (until about 1998)(v)
Previously at 3 Beechcroft Road, South Woodford, Essex (until about
1991)(vi) |
Current Status: |
Active |
Ritual: |
Masorti / Conservative |
Date Formed: |
The congregation was founded at a meeting in South Woodford in August 1986.(vii) |
Affiliation: |
The congregation is a constituent synagogue of
Masorti
Judaism (known as the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues until 2012).(viii) |
Website: |
The congregation's
website (bhmasorti.org.uk) does not appear to be operational. The
congregation is, however, hosted
by Masoti Olami at
https://masortiolami.org/community/buckhurst-hill-masorti-synagogue |
Rabbis:(To view a short profile of
Rabbi Shalev, hold the cursor over her name.) |
Rabbi Michael Foulds(ix)
- from 2007 until about 2019
Rabbi Zahavit Shalev
- Part time minister from September 2019 to present (January 2020).(x)
|
Membership: |
National Reports & Surveys(xii)
1990 - 32 members (comprising 26 households and 6 individual male members)
1996 - 56 members (comprising 50 households and 5 individual male members)
2010 & 2016 - listed as having 50 to 99 members (by household)
Annual Reports of Masorti Judaism(xiii)
- number of members as of 1 January:
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
152 |
149 |
169 |
169 |
169 |
155 |
89 |
89 |
150 |
139 |
102 |
|
Charitable Status: |
The congregation is a registered
charity (no. 297101) under the name, New Essex Masorti Congregation
(with alternative name Buckhurst Hill Masorti) registered 25 June 1987.
The governing document is a Trust Deed dated 10 November 1986, as varied
by a Deed of Variation dated 1 May 1987(xiv) |
Local Government District: |
Buckhurst Hill, 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. |
Registration District (BMD): |
Redbridge (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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List of Masorti Judaism Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Harrow
List of Member Synagogues of the Jewish Joint Burial Society
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 November 2006
Data significantly expanded and notes added: 22 May 2018
Latest revision or update: 5 January 2020
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