The United Synagogue

Our Rabbis

Dayan Menachem Gelley - Senior Dayan - London Beth Din

Dayan Gelley was born in Newcastle and studied at Gateshead Boarding School, Sunderland Yeshiva (which was headed by his father) and Ponevezh Yeshiva in B'nai Brak, before moving to the Gateshead Koll ...

Dayan Yonason Abraham - London Beth Din

Dayan Abraham was born in London and was educated at the Hasmonean Grammar School (as it was then known) and Gateshead and Lakewood (New Jersey) Yeshivot, before moving to Australia in 1985 where he w ...

Dayan Ivan Binstock - London Beth Din

Dayan Binstock was educated at Hackney Downs School and University College London, where he obtained a degree in chemistry. He remained at the college to do postgraduate research. He studied at the ...

Dayan Shmuel Simons - London Beth Din

Dayan Simons was born in London and was educated at the Hasmonean Grammar School before moving to Gateshead Yeshiva. He continued his learning at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in B'nai Brak and subsequently s ...

Rabbi Daniel Roselaar - Alei Tzion Synagogue

Rabbi Daniel Roselaar has been Rav of Alei Tzion since the summer of 2010, having previously been the Rabbi in the Belmont and Watford communities.

 

- Barking & Becontree Synagogue (Affiliate)

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

Rabbi Barry Lerer - Barnet Synagogue

Born in the USA and educated in London, Rabbi Lerer has a BSc in Psychology.

Rabbi Zorach Meir Salasnik - Bushey & District Synagogue

Rabbi Salasnik has been Rabbi of Bushey Synagogue since 1979. He is a former Chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue and is Secretary of the Chief Rabbi's Cabinet.

Reverend David Rome - Catford & Bromley Synagogue (Affiliate)

Cantor Rome was born into a distinguished Anglo-Jewish family where his love for both music and prayer was encouraged from an early age. He is the grandson of Rabbi Judah Rockman, an esteemed ambassad ...

Rabbi Barry Marcus - Central Synagogue

Rabbi Barry Marcus is a descendant of the Taz, born in South Africa. He served as Rabbi of one of the largest communities in Johannesburg and also in Israel before becoming the Rabbi of the Central Sy ...

Rabbi Boruch Davis - Chigwell & Hainualt Synagogue

Rabbi Davis was born in Kingsbury, North-West London. He combined Yeshiva and University Studies and worked in the Ministry of Finance, Jerusalem, before receiving semicha in 1987 from the Chief Rabbi ...

Rabbi Nissan Wilson - Clayhall Synagogue

Rabbi Wilson Studied in Gateshead Yeshiva and Yeshivat Heichal Hatorah in Jerusalem. Whilst in Israel, he joined the faculty of Yeshivat Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem, where he worked as a writer for the ...

Rabbi Yisroel Fine - Cockfosters & North Southgate Synagogue

Rabbi Yisroel Fine was born in Swansea in 1948. His father was the late Rev Meyer Fine who served as Minister and Shochet to the Cardiff and Leicester Communities.

Rabbi Hershi Vogel - Ealing Synagogue

Rabbi Vogel grew up in London and went through the Lubavitch School system.

Rabbi David Lister - Edgware Synagogue

Rabbi Lister was born in 1969, and grew up in Manchester where he learned for a year in the Sha'arei Torah Yeshiva before reading French at London University. He graduated with first class honours, be ...

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis - Finchley Synagogue

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis joined the Finchley community (Kinloss) in May 1996. Under his leadership, the congregation has been transformed into a vibrant powerhouse of educational, social, cultural and rel ...

Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski - Golders Green Synagogue

Rabbi Belovski read mathematics at University College, Oxford and subsequently studied in Gateshead, first at the Gateshead Yeshivah, where he gained Semichah, and then at the Beis HaTalmud Kollel. H ...

Rabbi Dr. Michael Harris - Hampstead Synagogue

Rabbi Harris was born in London and has been rabbi of the Hampstead Synagogue since 1995. Prior to this he was rabbi of the Southend and Westcliff community.

 

- Harold Hill Synagogue (Affiliate)

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

 

- Hemel Hempstead Synagogue (Affiliate)

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Ginsbury - Hendon Synagogue

Rabbi Mordechai Ginsbury has been the Rabbi of Hendon United Synagogue, Raleigh Close, since February 1999

Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman - Ilford Synagogue

Rabbi Hyman was born in Belfast 1953 and studied in yeshivot in both London and Gateshead.He received a degree and semicha from Jews' College.

Rabbi Yehuda Black - Kenton Synagogue

Rabbi Yehudah Black has been at Kenton Shul since August 2004. He works together with his wife.

Rabbi Zvi Cohen - Kingsbury Synagogue

Rabbi Cohen studied at the Hasmonean High School in Hendon, followed by seven years at the Gateshead Yeshiva, where he received his semicha in 1994.

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet - Mill Hill Synagogue

Rabbi Shochet joined Mill Hill Synagogue in 1993.

Rabbi David Mason - Muswell Hill Synagogue

Rabbi Mason was brought up in Edinburgh where he attended George Watsons College. He received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Econometrics from LSE and then spent seven years in yeshivot in Israel w ...

 

- New Synagogue

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

Rabbi Moshe Freedman - Northwood Synagogue

Rabbi Freedman was brought up in Kingston, South London where he attended Tiffin School. He received his Bachelors degree in Medical Electronics from the University of Liverpool and Masters and PhD in ...

 

- Peterborough Synagogue (Affiliate)

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

Rabbi Yaakov Grunewald - South London Synagogue

Rabbi Yaakov Grunewald was born in Tel Aviv on 26 October 1945. In 1958, just before his Bar Mitzvah, he came with his parents and two brothers to London. His Bar Mitzvah took place in the Golders Gre ...

 

- St. Albans Synagogue

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

 

- Staines (Affiliate)

No Rabbi/Minister currently in post.

Rabbi Andrew Shaw - Stanmore & Canons Park Synagogue

Rabbi Shaw is the Stanmore Community Development Rabbi

Rabbi Benjamin Landau - Stanmore & Canons Park Synagogue

Rabbi Landau is the Stanmore Assistant Community Rabbi

Reverend Meir Lev - Sutton & District Synagogue

Rev Meir Lev was born in Birmingham, and became minister at Sutton & District Synagogue in March 2010. He was educated at Chayai Olam (London) and Gateshead Yeshivot, and at the Birmingham Conservatoi ...

Rabbi Beni Fleischer - Wanstead & Woodford Synagogue (Affiliate)

Rabbi Fleischer grew up in Melbourne Australia. He always loved music, and after graduating from the Victoria College of the Arts in classical singing decided to spend a gap year in Israel. That year ...

Rabbi Ephraim Levine - Watford Synagogue

Rabbi Ephraim Levine studied at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Morristown NJ and Kfar Chabad in Israel where he received his Rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Yuroslavski.

Rabbi Gruber - Welwyn Garden City Synagogue

Rabbi Gruber was born in Chicago USA and spent much of his youth in Israel where he attended the Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat before returning to the USA to attend Yeshiva in New York and New Haven CT and th ...

Rabbi Simon Harris - Wembley Synagogue

Rabbi Simon Harris read Hebrew at University College London, followed by six years studying in Israel. He received Semicha from, among others, the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem. He holds a Master's d ...

Rabbi Pinchas Hackenbroch - Woodside Park Synagogue

Rabbi Hackenbroch has been the Rabbi of Woodside Park Synagogue since 2008. Prior to that he was the Rabbi of Newton Mearns Hebrew Congregation in Scotland where he also held communal positions as He ...

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shabbat times

May. 24th - 25th
16th Sivan
Begins: 20:44
Ends: 22:01
Sedra: Behaalotcha

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