Metadata: Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- London Metropolitan Archives, City of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- London Metropolitan Archives, City of London
- Postal address:
- 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, United Kingdom
- Phone number:
- (+44) 20 7332 3820
- Email:
- ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
- Reference number:
- LMA/4681
- Title:
- Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community
- Title (official language):
- Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community
- Date(s):
- 1986/2013
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 3.6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Records of Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community including minutes of Management and Ritual Committees and other administrative papers; staff and financial papers; papers relating to the synagogue building; membership lists; details of special services; religious education papers; ephemera relating to events and visits. Also a run of Koleinu, the Kol Chai magazine and other Kol Chai publications, printed material, photographs and a radio interview.
- Archival history:
- Deposited at London Metropolitan Archives in 2013.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Hatch End Jewish Community, now known as Kol Chai (meaning "Living Voice"), was founded by a core of families from the Middlesex New Synagogue, Harrow in 1986. After successfully canvassing for new members they started worshipping in homes and church halls before deciding to build their own synagogue in Woodridings Yard, Uxbridge Road in 1994. The synagogue was extended in 2003. The congregation worships within the Reform tradition and their first rabbi was Samuel Rodriguez-Pereira, who began taking services in 1988. Kol Chai is a very active community. Their Religion School for children began in 1987 and includes a post-bar/bat mitzvah class leading to a GCSE in Religious Education. In conjunction with Leo Baeck College/Centre for Jewish Education, Kol Chai has also developed a course to train assistant teachers. Dedicated committees also organise social activities and the community runs a Care Group, a Music Group and World Jewry activities. In 2012 Kol Chai joined its religious education programme with those of Hatch End Masorti Synagogue, Middlesex New Synagogue and Harrow and Wembley Park Synagogue to form HaMakom ('The Place'), the first Jewish pluralist supplementary school in the country to meet on a Sunday.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- United Kingdom
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Reform Judaism
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- Catalogued in ten sections: Administration; Finance; Synagogue building; Membership; Religious education; Services; Events and visits; Kol Chai publications; Printed material; Photographs and audio-visual
- Access, restrictions:
- These records are available only with written permission from the depositor. Records containing personal information may be subject to additional restrictions.
- Finding aids:
- Please see online catalogues.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
- Yerusha Network member:
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Author of the description:
- Nicola Avery, London Metropolitan Archives, 2018
