Shir Hayim

Shir Hayim
Basic information
Location West Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, England
Affiliation Reform Judaism
Status Active
Leadership Rabbi Larry Tabick
Website www.shirhayim.org

Shir Hayim ("A Song of Life")[1] is a Reform Jewish synagogue and congregation at Hashomer House, Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It was established in 1975 and until 1988 was known as Hampstead Reform Jewish Community.[2]

Services are held at Hashomer House every Friday evening at 6:15 pm and every Saturday morning at 10:30 am.[3]

Its rabbi is Larry Tabick, who was in post from 1976 to 1980 and returned in 1990.[4] Born in New York City in 1947, he went to England to study at Leo Baeck College in the early 1970s. His wife, Jackie Tabick, whom he married in 1975, was Britain’s first woman rabbi and is now Convenor of the Movement for Reform Judaism's Beit Din.[5] They have three children together.[4][6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mayor Visits Hampstead Reform Synagogue" (Press release). Movement for Reform Judaism. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Shir Hayim". JCR-UK. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "What's On". Shir Hayim. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Our Rabbi". Shir Hayim. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  5. ↑ Rocker, Simon (23 February 2012). "Tabick achieves another first at Reform Beit Din". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  6. ↑ "Rabbi Jackie Tabick". The Jewish Chronicle. 23 September 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "Introducing Rabbi Larry Tabick". Shir Hayim. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

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