Liberal Judaism | |
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Theology | Progressive Judaism |
Chief Executive Officer | Rabbi Charley Baginsky |
Chair | Ruth Seager |
Chairs of the Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors | Rabbi Rebecca Birk Rabbi René Pfertzel[1] |
Associations | World Union for Progressive Judaism |
Region | United Kingdom |
Headquarters | The Montagu Centre, 21 Maple Street, London |
Founder | Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu |
Origin | 16 February 1902 35 Porchester Terrace, London |
Congregations | 41 |
Members | 7,197 households (2010) |
Official website | www |
Liberal Judaism (formerly, until 2002: Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues) is one of the two WUPJ-affiliated denominations in the United Kingdom founded by Claude Montefiore.[2] It is smaller and more radical in comparison with the other one, the Movement for Reform Judaism. It is considered ideologically closer to American Reform Judaism than it is to the British Reform movement.[3] As of 2010 it was the fourth largest Jewish religious group in Britain, with 8.7% of synagogue-member households.