Menorah Synagogue
{{Short description|Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue in South Manchester, England}}
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| location = 198 Altrincham Road, Sharston, Wythenshawe, South Manchester, England M22 4RZ
| country = United Kingdom
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| leadership = Rabbi Fabian Sborovsky
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| established = 1963 {{small|(as a congregation)}}
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| footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/m07_cheshire_ref/index.htm |title=Menorah Synagogue; Cheshire Reform Congregation |work=Jewish Communities and Records - UK |publisher=JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain |date=8 January 2021 |access-date=12 May 2024 }}{{cite press release |url=http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/menorah-synagogue-welcomes-rabbi-fabian-sborovsky.html |title=Menorah Synagogue welcomes Rabbi Fabian Sborovsky |publisher=Movement for Reform Judaism |date=21 January 2015 |access-date=11 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211175703/http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/menorah-synagogue-welcomes-rabbi-fabian-sborovsky.html |archive-date=11 February 2015 |df=dmy-all}}
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Menorah Synagogue is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Altrincham Road, Sharston, Wythenshawe, in South Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1963 as the Cheshire Reform Congregation, the community is a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism.{{cite web |url=http://synagogues.reformjudaism.org.uk/details/menorah-synagogue.html?__catid=4 |work=Synagogue Directory |title=Menorah Synagogue |publisher=Movement for Reform Judaism |access-date=11 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211181037/http://synagogues.reformjudaism.org.uk/details/menorah-synagogue.html?__catid=4 |archive-date=11 February 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
The rabbi of the congregation, since February 2015, is Fabian Sborovsky, who succeeded Rabbi Haim Shalom.{{cite news |url=http://www.thejc.com/community/community-life/128202/sborovsky-set-light-menorah |title=Sborovsky is set to light up Menorah |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=15 January 2015 |access-date=1 April 2015}}
See also
{{stack|{{portal|Greater Manchester|Judaism}}}}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://menorah.org.uk/}}
{{Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom}}
{{Synagogues in the United Kingdom}}
Category:1963 establishments in England
Category:20th-century synagogues in the United Kingdom
Category:Jewish organizations established in 1963
Category:Reform synagogues in the United Kingdom
Category:Synagogues in Manchester
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