Category: Small Communities

Although the Jewish Congregation is quite small, what it lacks in numbers is makes up for in community spirit and enthusiasm. The Jersey Jewish Congregation supported a project for Holocaust Memorial Day Trust called 80 Candles for 80 Years and with Jersey Heritage organised volunteers to produce a Candle Stand …

  Ritual: Orthodox Status: active The congregation formed in 1905. It built its present building in 1911. Albert Samuel, brother of Herbert Samuel laid the cornerstone. At the turn of the Twentieth Century there were already Jewish families living in Bournemouth and, in 1905, a Hebrew Congregation was established. There …

Status: private synagogue In 1831 Moses Montefiore bought a mansion with twenty-four acres of land on the East Cliff of the then fashionable seaside town of Ramsgate. The house had previously served as a country residence for Queen Caroline, when still Princess of Wales, and had passed into the possession …

Status: closed The Jews of Brynmawr The Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1888. Initially, services were held at the home of the then President of the congregation, Barnett Isaacs, and then later in Brynmawr Town Hall. The congregation solicited funds to build their own synagogue, which was eventually built …

Herefordshire Jewish Community and Gloucestershire Liberal Jewish Community amalgamated to become Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community    From the Liberal Judaism website (May 2019)… A coming together service is planned for Saturday 20 July when the new congregation will be officially formed. It will take the title of Three Counties …