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Jewish
Synagogues & Organisations
including
Associations
and Groups
in Greater Manchester
About
Manchester Jewry
The Manchester
Jewish Community currently numbers about 35,000 - the second largest
community in the United Kingdom, and dates from the 1780s.
A Jewish
cemetery had been acquired in 1794, almost certainly by Jews moving
from neighbouring Liverpool.
Continental
war and unrest saw several later immigrations, notably in the late
1840s, when the so-called "liberal" Jews arrived in the area, including
the Hungarian soldier rabbi, Solomon Schiller-Szinessy, who became
minister of a Reform synagogue in 1856.
In the 1870s,
North African Sephardi formed two communities in Manchester, one in
Cheetham Hill and the other in West Didsbury; the former is now the
Manchester Jewish Museum
on Cheetham Hill Road.
Greater Manchester Synagogues
Listed
Alphabetically
Manchester
Jewish Agencies & Organisations
- Magen David
Adom UK
142 Bury Old Road, Manchester M8 4HE. Tel: 0161-795 2999.
MDA is the Israeli Emergency Service which is funded solely by Charitable
Contributions.
- Jewish Genealogical
Society of Great Britain
Manchester Regional Group Chairman: Lorna Kay. Email: lorna.kay@talktalk.net.
- Chaim v' Tikvah
(Life and Hope) Progressive Congregation
Meets in Prestwich. More information from Email: CIConsultancy@aol.com.
Tel: 0161-773 3082
- Manchester
Jewish Federation
12 Holland Road, Higher Crumpsall, M8 4WP. Tel: 0161-795 0024. Chief
Executive: Mrs K Phillips.
- Jewish Representative
Council of Greater Manchester
Jewish Cultural Centre, Bury Old Road, M7 4QY. Tel: 0161-720 8721.
Affiliated to the Council are 140 synagogues and organisations. President:
Mrs Barbara D Goldstone.
- Jewish Agency
for Israel
142 Bury Old Road, Manchester M8. Tel: 0161-740 2864.
- Women's Zionist
Council
142 Bury Old Road, M8. Tel: 0161-740 3367.
- Zionist Central
Council of Greater Manchester
142 Bury Old Road, Manchester M8. Tel: 0161-740 1825
- The Jewish
Cultural & Leisure Centre
Machon Levi Yitschok, Jubilee School, Bury Old Road, Salford M7. Tel:
0161-795 4000.
- Brookvale
Homes for the Mentally Handicapped
Simister Lane, Prestwich. M25 2SF. Tel: 0161-653 1767.
Directo: Mrs L Richmond. Short term care available.
- Manchester
Jewish Community Care
Nicky Alliance Day Centre, 85 Middleton Road, Manchester M8 6JY.
Tel: 0161-740 0111. Fax: 0161-721 4273.
Jewish
Student & Youth Organisations in Greater Manchester
- BNEI AKIVA
(N. England)
72 Singleton Road, Salford M7 4LU. Tel: 0161-740 1621. Fax: 0161-740
8018.
- HABONIM-DROR
28 Wilton Road, Crumpsall, Manchester M8 4QW. Tel: 0161-795 9447.
Fax: 0161-740 1981
- JEWISH SCOUTS
& GUIDES:
401st Manchester Scout Group & 5th Cheetham Guides & Brownies,
HQ Willow Hill Road, Crumpsall, Manchester M8.
- LUBOVITCH
COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTRE
Lubovitch House, 62 Singleton Road, Salford M7 0LU.
- GREATER MANCHESTER
JEWISH CHAPLAINCY BOARD
Tel: 0161-720 8721. Provides full-time counselling services to Jewish
students and assists Jewish societies in planning a wide range of
activities and interests.
- MANCHESTER
UNIVERSITY JEWISH SOCIETY
For information about the activities of this society please contact
Manchester Jewish Students (below).
- MANCHESTER
METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY JEWISH SOCIETY
For information about the activities of this society please contact
Manchester Jewish Students (below).
- SALFORD UNIVERSITY
JEWISH SOCIETY
For information about the activities of this society please contact
Manchester Jewish Students (below).
- MANCHESTER
JEWISH STUDENTS
Tel/fax: 0161-232 9958. Website: www.manchesterjewishstudents.com.
MJS is a region of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS). MJS supports
and assists in the co-ordination of the activities of all the University
Jewish Societies, including the Charity Committee. MJS attempts to
cater for the needs of all Jewish students on Manchester and Salford
campuses.
- UNION OF JEWISH
STUDENTS
Tel: 0161-720 8721.
See
Also:
- "All
Things Jewish" at jewish.virtualave.net
- "MavenSearch"
Jewish Web Directory at www.maven.co.il
- Jewish website,
"Love Torah" at www.ilovetorah.com. Some 300 Videos from
Israel, Blogs, MP and more all free. Coming from Tzfat, Israel.
- Association of
Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women ( AJEX),
Shield House, Harmony Way,
Hendon, London NW4 2BZ. Tel: 020-8202 9900.
Website: www.ajex.org.uk. Email: headoffice@ajex.org.uk.
Originally known as the League of Old Judeans.
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