The Montefiore Synagogue and Mausoleum in Ramsgate. Information and how to book visits.
The Montefiore Endowment aims to promote the values of tolerance, social harmony and mutual understanding for wide public benefit in accordance with the teachings of the Torah and as demonstrated in the life and works of Sir Moses Montefiore. It does this through its Conferences and its planned Leadership Courses.
The Montefiore Ethos is also promoted by The Montefiore College in its Semicha Course and in the Gap-Year Fellowship Scheme
The following extract is from an email recently received from one of the UK students on completion of the first year of the Course. . . . I can truly say that we, the participants, have gained far beyond my initial expectations. We have covered some extremely important, delicate and… Continue reading
In order to accommodate students who, because of career commitments, find it impossible to attend the course on weekday afternoons, it has been decided to eliminate all afternoon sessions from the start of the new term in November 2017. In place of the present afternoon sessions, the evening sessions on… Continue reading
Work on the Institutions is nearing completion and it is hoped that full details will be online later this year. It is interesting to see such a sophisticated range of Jewish community and religious service provisions in operation in a non-western environment in the 19th century. Schools and Torah Colleges account… Continue reading
The Endowment sows many seeds, some of which germinate and eventually bear fruit. The following is composed of extracts from a letter of appreciation received from one of its former gap-year students. “I am sending this email following my recent graduation from Cambridge University to update the Montefiore Endowment on… Continue reading
ANOTHER ‘FIRST’ FOR THE MONTEFIORE ENDOWMENT History was made in London on 14th June when three leading exponents of diametrically opposed interpretations of the halacha on the role of women in religious life debated with each other at a public meeting chaired by Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Hon. Principal of… Continue reading
Dayanut students from Australia and the U.S.A will be attending a week-long intensive residential course in Los Angeles, California, between 16th and 21st July 2017 in order to reinforce and supplement their previous on-line sessions. Rav Livnat from Eretz Hemdah, their regular instructing dayan, will be organising the programme, which… Continue reading
Click here to view The London Montefiore Semicha Programme
Inquirers should note that the Montefiore Endowment owns, preserves and maintains its books and manuscripts in its library at 2 Ashworth Road, London W9 1JY and those on loan to the libraries of University College London. All items are listed on our website www.montefioreendowment.org.uk Items are available for inspection and… Continue reading
