JCR-UK

West London Synagogue of British Jews

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Ministers of the Congregation

Kindly provided by the West London Synagogue and produced with its permission.
Photographs © WLS

 
To view a short profile of any one of the undermentioned ministers,
hold the cursor over the name of the relevant minister.
(To view the full list of all such profiles, listed alphabetically together with profiles of other
non-orthodox ministers who served more than one UK congregation, click on the name of any minister.)




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 Dr. Joel Blau
Assistant Minister 1924-1927


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 D. 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 Allen Podet
Assisted 1976/77: 1986/87

 


Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
Assisted 1981-1982

 

Rabbi Larry Tabick
Rabbi Larry Tabick
Assisted 1990


Rabbi Mark Winer
Senior Rabbi 1998-2010

 

 


Rabbi Helen Freeman
Rabbi 1999-2010
Principal Rabbi 2010-2020
later Co-Senior Rabbi

 

 

 


Rabbi Sybil Sheridan
Rabbi 2014-2020

 

 

 

 

Rabbi Emily Reitsma-Jurman
Rabbi Emily Reitsma-Jurman
Associate Rabbi 1 Jan 2021

 

 

 

 

 


Rabbi David Mitchell
Rabbi 2011-2020
later Co-Senior Rabbi

 


Rabbi Neil Janes
Rabbi 2015-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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 Debbie Young-Somers
Rabbi 2009-2013


Rabbi Benji Stanley
Assistant Rabbi 2013-2014


Rabbi Gershon Silis
Assistant Rabbi January 2021


Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE
(Baroness Neuberger)

Senior Rabbi 2011-2020
Rabbi Emerita 2020-

 


Rabbi Helen Freeman
Co-Senior Rabbi 1 Apr 2020 -


Rabbi David Mitchell
Co-Senior Rabbi 1 Apr 2020 -

 

 


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