In 1840, the first Reform synagogue in the UK, The West London Synagogue, was established under the leadership of several prominent families dissatisfied with both the Sephardic and Ashkenazic synagogues, beginning a controversy that would last centuries to come. The Chief Rabbi at the time, Solomon Hirschell, dismissed the new synagogue for not adhering to …

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