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The New London Synagogue is a traditional
Anglo-Jewish congregation. Our services are orthodox in style
and we use the Singer's prayer book and both the Hertz and Etz
Haim Chumashim. We have a professional, mixed choir once a month
and on festivals. Our main service is led by a professional
Chazan and seeks to maintain the finest musical traditions of
Anglo Jewry. Men and women sit separately with parallel seating
downstairs and a Ladies Gallery upstairs. Women are counted in
the Minyan and encouraged to say Kaddish. We also have a
three-weekly second service - Minyan Chadash - with mixed
seating, that is less formal, participatory, and where women are
called to and read from the Torah.
New London Synagogue was founded in 1964 by
Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs as a congregation devoted
to traditional Judaism with an ideology which interprets the
Torah and Jewish teachings in the light of contemporary
knowledge and scholarship. It has always been a pioneering
congregation, leading the way to an enlightened Judaism and
representing a rare combination of intellectual integrity
together with loyalty to the finest traditions of the Jewish way
of life.
We recognize that Judaism has always been a
combination of tradition and change, an ever evolving search for
an understanding of God's teachings and for the way of life
which will be pleasing in God's eyes. New London believes that
21st century Judaism can be flexible enough to meet the
challenges of new times and firm enough to remain loyal to the
core of Jewish tradition and practice.
Through its extensive programme of services,
classes, lectures, life cycle events, Bar/Bat Mitzvah training,
conversion classes and communal celebrations it provides its
members with opportunities for religious, spiritual and
intellectual growth.
New London is a sacred community- a group of
people - men, women and children - who have come together in
order to promote a sacred way of life, transforming the
principles of Judaism from theory into practice. It is a group
of people who are concerned and caring for other another, who
respect one another, allowing for difference and divergence
within the framework of the ideals of the community.
As a member of the Assembly of Masorti
Synagogues and the World Council of Masorti/Conservative
Synagogues - it is part of a large, world-wide movement of
like-minded groups with close ties to congregations and
individuals in Israel and throughout the world.
To learn more about The New London
Synagogue, click
here.
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