Shir Hayim | |
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Basic information | |
Location | West Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, England |
Affiliation | Reform Judaism |
Country | United Kingdom |
Status | Active |
Leadership | Rabbi Larry Tabick |
Website | www |
Shir Hayim ("A Song of Life") 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.
Services are held at Hashomer House every Friday evening at 6:15 pm and every Saturday morning at 10:30 am.
Its rabbi is Larry Tabick, who was in post from 1976 to 1980 and returned in 1990. 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. They have three children together.