We are a friendly, modern orthodox community characterised by a rich mixture of tradition and forward thinking, which we call 'Minhag Hampstead'. Under the guidance of Rabbi Dr. Michael Harris we combine an inclusive outlook with a belief in the...
How it all began
At the begining of the nineteenth century, there were very few Jewish people living in the Hampstead area. The Jewish population of London was mainly centered around the city.
In 1879 the Jewish population of Hampstead...
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United Synagogue
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Amanda Ruback
Amanda has lived in North West London all her life and has never lived more than 10 miles from where she was born, in Stanmore – although through her working life, she has travelled to more than 40 countries around the world. Always h...
For over a hundred years, Hampstead Synagogue has been the venue of choice when it comes to celebrating a joyous occasion.
Whether it is a wedding, bar or bat mitzvah or special birthday or anniversary, the Hampstead Synagogue will help you celebrate...
The Hampstead Synagogue is a modern forward-thinking orthodox community. Today it is under the leadership of Rabbi Dr. Michael Harris who joined us in 1995. His guiding philosophy - modern (or centrist) orthodoxy - is based on four principles - Zi...
We are currently gauging interest in a small Beginners' Talmud Circle with Rabbi Michael commencing in May focusing on developing textual skills and engaging with this most influential of Jewish classics. No previous knowledge is required.
To join...
Calendar of Events
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Chronology of Hampstead Synagogue
What to do in the event of bereavement
Notify the United Synagogue burial office IMMEDIATELY and leave your name, the name of the deceased and a contact phone number. United Synagogue Burial Office - 020 8950 7767. If the Burial Offices are closed an...
Children's activities at Hampstead synagogue are all about fun, love and informal Jewish education. It is the perfect place for your child to have fun and make friends whilst having an incredibly positive Jewish experience within our warm community at...
Hampstead Monthly is our monthly newsletter.
It includes all sorts of useful information, and tells you everything happening for the next month. You'll find service times, simchas, social events, activities, and new members to welcome, along with helpful...
Each week we have a lovely kiddush after the service. As well as the usual wine, whisky and cake, we offer a delicious array of herring, dips and crackers plus other mouth-watering goodies, with crisps, sweets and soft drinks for children of all ages.
We...
The Dennington Club started in 2013 for people aged 35 to 55 to get together. Predominantly the people attending are single but we also welcome newly marrieds who are members of the synagogue.
We have held several Friday Night Dinners with guest ...
We have been running fun singalongs, play sessions and arts and crafts for mums to come along with toddlers to meet other local mums and toddlers. We also run toddler services on shabbat with fun songs and our famous puppet Schnitzi the bear. If you ...
GUIDE TO SHABBAT SERVICE
We are delighted to welcome you to Hampstead Synagogue whether your visit is for a particular celebration or you have moved into the area and are looking to join a local synagogue. You can be assured of a warm welcome, whatever...
"It’s Good to Talk"
Welfare message from Nina Geller
“The Hampstead Synagogue Welfare Committee is actively involved in sustaining many of our members who are incapacitated, lonely, or may not like to ask for help.
Sometimes all that is need...
Click here for the latest edition of our Hampstead Annual Review
The Shul magazine is produced each year for Rosh Hashanah, and always includes messages from the Rabbi and Chair, a look back at the year, and a range of articles from members of the...
Chesed and Tikkun Olam are tenets of our Jewish lives. The Mishna tells us: "The world stands on three things: Torah (Jewish learning) Avodah (service of God) and acts of Chesed (loving kindness)”. Acts of loving kindness are greater even than...
Book club
The Hampstead Book group meets every two months on Sunday afternoons and gives you an opportunity to read and discuss books of Jewish interest and or by Jewish authors with diverse cultural themes. Men and women of all ages are welcome. ...
Teenagers play a big role at Hampstead and are valued members of the community - stewarding, davening, leining, delivering sedra summaries, or helping with social action, events, plays, parties and children's services.
We also run Lads and Dads Tefillin...
Women play an active role in the community at Hampstead Synagogue.
Some of the activities women are involved in include:
Serving on the executive committee and board of management and advising on the future direction and growth of the synagogue ...
The shul provides a diverse range of activities and programmes for 20s to 30s including Friday night dinners, Shabbat lunches and organising charity events. Special events have included: ‘Jamming in the Succah’, Sushi making, Oneg on the Rocks, Drum...
There's a new monthly YP Minyan in West Hampstead - Minyan @ the Den a.k.a M@D!
Lots of energy, whisky, and a great young crowd looking for something meaningful, fresh, and a bit different.
The service will take place 10am-12pm on:
5 March 2...
The Hampstead Synagogue
Dennington Park Road
London
NW6 1AX
Email
admin@hampsteadshul.org.uk
Telephone
020 7435 1518
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays: 9.00am-12noon
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Information collected
We collect contact details from visitors to our web site through the use of online forms (for example your name, e-mail address, nature of query and telephone number) and every time you e-mail us your details.
In addition,...
These extraordinary times call upon us to take extraordinary measures. All services are currently suspended.
Although the buildings are closed, Hampstead Synagogue and the community is still here! We will be in regular touch. Initially our main fo...
Motzei Shabbat 13th August at Hampstead
8.27pm Fast begins:
8.30pm Shabbat Mincha followed by short Shiur
9.20pm Shabbat ends, Maariv, Eicha and Kinnot
Sunday 14th August Joint Hampstead/Shomrei Progamme at Shomrei Hadath
9.15am...
Sunday 24th July 2016 at Shomrei Hadath
2.34am Fast Begins
8.15am Shacharit
8.15pm Mincha
8.45pm Shiur with Guest Speaker Rabbi Gary Wayland, Assistant Rabbi, Woodside Park Synagogue
9.30pm Maariv
9.54pm Fast ends
Architects Waugh Thistleton have been appointed to advise on the action necessary to provide us with a modern community centre and they have made their recommendations. As a result it has been decided that we shall take the reconstruction route,...
Donations are very important to our synagogue
DONATE ONLINE HERE
It is common to donate on the occasion of a yahrzeit; to help sponsor a kiddush when celebrating a special birthday or anniversary, or on the birth of a child or grandchild.
On...
Joining is easy - just fill out the application form!
The form can be downloaded as a PDF file .
If you need help or further details, please do contact Candice in the shul office.
Aged 21-29 and single? Then you are eligible for Tribe ...
There are lots of ways you can get involved at Hampstead Synagogue from joining the security team to helping with our social action food bank deliveries to offering an idea for a new event or series of activities.
Here are a few of the teams that would...
We have a great programme for all the family over the High Holy Days this year, and members should receive their tickets by post soon. We of course welcome everyone at Hampstead, but despite our size space fills up fast! If you have friends and family...
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How to find us
Trains
The Synagogue is within a short walk of the following...
Upcoming events
Open Invitation
An offer especially for you
Annual Supper Quiz
Dennington Club Dinner
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Previous Isaiah Berlin Lectures given at the Hampstead Synagogue
2003 Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – “The Politics of Freedom.”
2004 Lord Leon Brittan – “Europe: Past, Present and Future.”
2005 Sir Martin Gilbert – “Churchill and Parliamen...
We do our best to make Bar Mitzvahs at Hampstead as meaningful as possible. Our Barmitzvah boys usually lein some or all of the Sidra, Maftir and Haftara. After the Sefer Torah has been returned to the Ark, Rabbi Michael addresses the Bat Mitzvah boy, ...
What to do in the event of bereavement
Notify the United Synagogue burial office IMMEDIATELY and leave your name, the name of the deceased and a contact phone number.
United Synagogue Burial Office: 020 8950 7767
If the Burial Offices are closed...
We at Hampstead Synagogue would be delighted to help you celebrate the birth of your baby.
For Baby Boys
Brit Milah
The Torah states (Vayikra/Leviticus 12:3) that Brit Milah (circumcision) takes place on the eighth day inclusive after a baby boy...
You can find no more spiritual and magnificent setting to hold a wedding ceremony than the Hampstead Synagogue. The processional route down the central aisle of the synagogue leads to the chupa on the iconic red marble bimah.
The 1892 chamber...
It is a mitzvah to observe yahrzeit, the anniversary of the day of death of a close relative by reciting kaddish and attending synagogue services. A Yahrzeit is the annual anniversary of the passing of a relative, primarily a parent. Yahrzeit is commemorated...
Here are the rest of the service times.
Join us for Shabbat This Weekend
You are more than welcome to join us for Shabbat any week. We start with services on Friday afternoon wth Calabach-style melodies to welcome the sabbath day. We start at different times during the year s...
Here you will find a place where the Hampstead community can expand their Jewish learning.
The public space currently hosts three lectures given by Rabbi Dr Michael Harris for the first series of Modern Orthodox Thoughts. The second series features...
Guide for receiving Mitzvot at Hampstead Synagogue
Whether you are an old hand looking for a reminder, or new to the whole experience, this guide should let you know what you need to do for your mitzvah.
The Twelfth Annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture
Remembrance in the 21st Century: How will we remember when everyone who has something to remember is gone?
by Professor Deborah E Lipstadt
Thursday 4 September 2014
For the first time the Isaiah Berlin Lecture...
Proessor Deborah Lipstadt presented the 12th Annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture on Thursday 4 September 2014.
The event was hugely popular and as a result we moved to the main synagogue building.
You can watch the lecture here.
Remembrance in the 21st Century: How will we remember when everyone who has something to remember is gone?
by Professor Deborah E Lipstadt
Thursday 4 September 2014
For the first time the Isaiah Berlin Lecture moved to the main synagogue building...
March 2021
This year I have attended several Zoom meetings organised by Camden Council and the GLA – all relative to interfaith matters.
Concern has been expressed to ensure the vaccine for Covid is taken up by everybody whatever their faith. C...
Latest Events
Annual Supper Quiz
14th Dec 2014
Read more...
Hampstead Synagogue Book Group
7th Dec 2014
New book group founded for all members, women and men of all ages w...
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Hayley Marks – Hampstead Synagogue’s Administrator.
Hayley has grown up in North West London living in Stanmore, Pinner and Borehamwood. She attended St Helens School in Northwood and Leeds Metropolitan University to study Childhood Studies.
Before uni...
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Last Sunday, around 75 volunteers from Hampstead Synagogue, The Board of Deputies, Emmanuel Church and beyond came together...
Our Archive
UPDATE: March 2011
A group of dedicated volunteers sorted through hundreds of strorage boxes to find items worth preserving for our synagogue archive. By the end of March 2011, we h...
PESACH TIMETABLE 2018/5778
Thursday 29th March
Search for chametz after nightfall
Friday 30th March, Erev Pesach, Fast of the Firstborn
Morning Service and Siyyum 8.00a.m.
Stop eating chametz by 10.57a.m.
Burn chametz by 12.00...
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Sunday 9th April
Search for chametz after nightfall
Monday 10th April, Erev Pesach (Fast of the Firstborn)
Morning Service and Siyyum 7.15a.m.
Stop eating chametz by 10.47 a.m.
Burn chametz by ...
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Yomim Noraim 5779
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Shabbat 8th June - Erev Shavuot
8.45pm Shabbat Mincha
9.15pm Shiur by Rabbi Harris
10.00pm Ma'ariv
10.20pm Shabbat ends and Yom Tov begins
Light Yom Tov candles after 10.20pm from an existing flame
Saturday Night 8th June
Annual Joint Ham...
Tuesday 30th May
Erev Shavuot: Yom tov begins
and light candles before 8.52pm.
Mincha and Maariv 8.30pm.
Joint Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
commencing 12 midnight
at Shomrei, Burrard Road NW6.
Wednesday 31st May
1st day Shavuot:
Shacharit ...
SHABBAT 19th MAY, EREV SHAVUOT
9.15am Morning Service
8.30pm Shabbat Mincha
8.55pm Shiur by Rabbi Michael
9.30pm Yom tov Maariv
9.51pm Shabbat ends and Yom Tov begins
Light Yom Tov candles after 9.51 pm
Annual Joint Hampstead ...
Click Here to read the United Synagogue Complaints Policy
The Two Services
The founders of the Synagogue wanted to break with some of the
traditions of the United Synagogue, which were adopted in other
Synagogues.
These included: omitting the repetition...
Join us for a joint Tikkun Leil at Shomrei Hadath, 64 Burrard Rd, London NW6 1DD
This Shavuot do something a little bit different. Based on the Talmud in Ketubot 103b we will engage in a learning style that Rav C...
Saturday night 21st July at Hampstead:
Fast begins 9.05pm
Mincha followed by short shiur 9.15pm
Shabbat ends, Maariv, Eicha and Kinnot 10.05pm
Sunday 22nd July at Shomrei Hadath:
8.00am Shacharit followed by Kinnot - Rabbi Dr Michael...
Weddings
You can find no more spiritual and magnificent setting to hold a wedding ceremony than the Hampstead Synagogue. The processional route down the central aisle of the synagogue leads to the chupa on the iconic red marble bimah. ...
Sponsored by: The United Synagogue
Welcome to E-Learning
Here you will find a place where the Hampstead community can expand their Jewish learning.
The public space currently hosts three lectures g...
What we do
Welcome to the community section of our website. Here you will find all the latest news and information on what is going on in our community. Use the menu (right) to navigate around this section.
If you would l...
Danielle Gedalla is our Scholar in Residence for the forthcoming Jewish year.
We are excited that we have appointed a talented younger scholar in order to help foster a new generation of Orthodox female Torah scholars.
Danielle is an experienced...
This comprises of men and women who have an interest in being involved with the running of the Shul. Members are elected annually, and anyone within the community is eligible to stand if they have been a member for more than 12 months. The Council meets...
Rabbi Jack Cohen grew up in Mill Hill with firm roots in the local Shul community and Bnei Akiva. He attended City of London school, thoroughly enjoying spending his formative years in the heart of London.
Whilst he should have been studying for his...
The Chazan of Hampstead Shul
Our Community Manager is Candice Janet.
If you would like to get in touch with us, your first port of call should be the Synagogue Community Manager. Candice is in the office Mondays and Wednesdays from 9am-5pm, and on Friday mornings from 9am-1pm....
Rabbi Dr Michael Harris was born in London in 1964. He studied at three yeshivot in Israel: Ma’ale Adumim, Machon Harry Fischel and Yeshivat HaMivtar in Efrat. He holds semicha (rabbinic ordination) from the Chief Rabbinate of I...
Your Simcha
For over a hundred years, Hampstead Synagogue has been the venue of choice when it comes to celebrating a joyous occasion.
Whether it is a wedding, bar or bat mitzvah or special birthday or anniversary, the Hampstead Synagogue...
