Sternberg Centre

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The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, in East End Road Finchley, London, is the largest Jewish cultural centre in Europe.

It was founded to facilitate a number of reform and liberal Jewish institutions, attached to the Movement for Reform Judaism (formerly: Reform Synagogues of Great Britain) principally through education and cultural means. The centre was opened in 1981 by the Manor House Trust and is now named after Sigmund Sternberg. The founding organisations are: Leo Baeck college, Akiva School, the first Reform Jewish day school in England (also opened in 1981), and the New North London Synagogue. The centre also hosts the Jewish Museum, Finchley, and is renowned for its work in promoting interfaith dialogue. The Sternberg Centre grounds also house Akiva School and the offices of RSY Netzer, The Zionist Youth Movement for Reform Judaism

[edit] Jewish Museum, Finchley

Originally opened as the Museum of the Jewish East End in 1983, the museum's main intent is the preservation of the heritage of London's East End, an important and large community which has since largely dissipated. Renamed the London Museum of Jewish Life in 1990, and subsequently amalgamating with the Jewish Museum in Camden Town, the museum has diversified to include the history of other Jewish communities in London, and is also active in Holocaust and anti racism education.

The Finchley museum is scheduled to move in 2008 to an enlarged building on the Camden site, which will release space for the expansion of the Akiva school.

Jewish Museum, Finchley

[edit] Leo Baeck College

Named in honour of Leo Baeck, the inspirational twentieth century German reform rabbi, Leo Baeck College is the smallest academic college in England, and was founded in 1956 as a rabbinical school for training liberal and reform rabbis. It is now also a degree awarding institution, specialising in Hebrew and other Jewish related subjects.

Leo Baeck College