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 and the Akiva School, the first Reform Jewish day school in England (also opened in 1981); also the (Masorti) 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

Contents 1 Jewish Museum, Finchley 2 Leo Baeck College 3 See also 4 External links

[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 was founded in 1956 as a rabbinical school for training Liberal and Reform rabbis. Today, the college is a centre for the training of rabbis and teachers, an educational consultancy, helps the development of community leaders, provides access to Jewish learning for all through interfaith work. It is a degree awarding institution, specialising in Hebrew and other Jewish related subjects. It is based at the Sternberg Centre, East End Road, in North London. As well as being the smallest academic college in England, it is also the largest Jewish Progressive University and Rabbinic College in Europe.

Leo Baeck College

[edit] See also

• History of Church End Finchley - includes a history of the old Manor House at the centre of the site.

[edit] External links

• The New North London Synagogue.