Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation

Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation
Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation
	The synagogue in 2009
Religion
Affiliation	Reform Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Synagogue
Leadership	Rabbi Norman Zalud
Status	Active
Location
Location	40 Raikes Parade, Blackpool, Lancashire, England FY1 4EX
Country	United Kingdom
	The synagogue in Blackpool
Geographic coordinates	53°49′01″N 3°02′38″W / 53.817°N 3.044°W
Architecture
Date established	1947 (as a congregation)
Completed	1961
Website
	brjc.co.uk

The Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, in the United Kingdom.

History

With a synagogue located on Raikes Parade, Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation was founded in 1947 and was originally a member of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. It is now a constituent synagogue of the Movement for Reform Judaism with which it has been associated since 1961.^[1]

It is also a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region and the Blackpool Faith Forum.^[2]

In October 2005 Michael Howard visited the synagogue on the day he gave his final speech as leader of the Conservative Party at its annual Party Conference in Blackpool. He was called up to the Torah during a first day Rosh Hashanah service at the synagogue.^[3]

The synagogue publishes a quarterly magazine, Migdal.

Rabbi

Rabbi Norman Zalud is the community's rabbi. He also serves the community of Manchester's Sha'arei Shalom synagogue and, until 2007, was rabbi of the Liverpool Reform Synagogue.

He has worked with the Blackpool Reform community for the last 40 years. He teaches special needs children at Delemere Forest School, is prison chaplain for all faiths in eleven prisons in the north west of England and Jewish chaplain to Southport and District Hospital.

Rabbi Zalud trained as a cantor at Guildhall School of Music and then at Jews' College, where he received a minister's qualification before going to Leo Baeck College. He received semikhah in 1993.

References

^ "Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation". Jewish Communities and Records-UK. JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ "Welcome to Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation – Online". Blackpool Reform Jewish Congregation. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
^ Cohen, Justin (14 October 2005). "Howard Goes From Tory To Torah". TotallyJewish.com. Retrieved 21 November 2009.