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New London Synagogue
New London Synagogue is a MasortiJewish congregation and synagogue, located in St John's Wood, in the City of Westminster, London, England, in the United Kingdom.
The congregation was founded in 1964 by followers of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, following the "Jacobs Affair" in which Rabbi Jacobs was refused employment in the United Synagogue due to alleged heresy.
It is the founding synagogue of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, which was established in 1985. Its congregation is made up of approximately 500 households and worships in the Ashkenazirite.
The current rabbinic leaders are Rabbi Jeremy Gordon and Rabbi Natasha Mann.
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Rabbi Louis Jacobs was an Orthodox pulpit rabbi at New West End Synagogue, when he was offered an appointment as Principal of Jews' College in 1961. However, the then Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Israel Brodie, interdicted the appointment "because of his [Jacobs's] published views".
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