Liberal Judaism (United Kingdom)

Liberal Judaism
Liberal Judaism
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
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.liberaljudaism.org

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.

^ "New Chairs for the Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors". Liberal Judaism. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
^ Jacobs, Louis (2003). "Liberal Judaism". A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Online Version). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191726446.
^ Liberal Judaism BBC. 12 August 2009

[1] "New Chairs for the Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors". Liberal Judaism. Retrieved 5 April 2021.

[Jacobs-2] Jacobs, Louis (2003). "Liberal Judaism". A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (Online Version). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191726446.

[3] Liberal Judaism BBC. 12 August 2009

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