Jewish Community of Berkshire

51°27′06″N 0°59′50″W / 51.45169605259°N 0.9972267171°W / 51.45169605259; -0.9972267171ArchitectureDate established2015 (as a congregation)Websitejcob.org^[1]

The Jewish Community of Berkshire (abbreviated as JCoB) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish community and synagogue based in Reading, Berkshire, England, in the United Kingdom.^[2] The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.^[1]

The community was established in 2015, following an accident when the rabbi injured his knee and was unable to walk to synagogue.^[3] Its rabbi is Zvi Solomons, formerly the rabbi of Reading Hebrew Congregation.^[1]^[3]^[4]^[5] Synagogue services are held in the rabbi's home, and the community hosts the only Orthodox rabbinic couple (Rabbi Zvi Solomons and Rebbetzen Dr Shira Batya Lewin Solomons)^[6] and cheder^[7] in Berkshire.

JCoB also provides a visiting service to schools in the region to teach Judaism as part of the religious education syllabus agreed by their local SACREs.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Jewish Community of Berkshire". Jewish Communities and Records – UK. JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ "Berkshire Jewish Community". Jewish Small Communities Network. 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
^ ^a ^b Rocker, Simon (10 September 2015). "Ousted minister starts rival group". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^ Rocker, Simon (25 May 2015). "'Declining' Reading cannot afford to keep its minister". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
^ "Reading Rabbi wins settlement after being sacked from synagogue". Berkshire Live. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^ "Who We Are". Jewish Community of Berkshire. Retrieved 26 March 2020.^{[self-published source?]}
^ "Cheder". Jewish Community of Berkshire. Retrieved 26 March 2020.^{[self-published source?]}
^ "School visits from JCoB". Jewish Community of Berkshire. Retrieved 26 March 2020.^{[self-published source?]}