Rabbi Silverman

I would like to warmly welcome you to Manchester Reform Synagogue. We are a vibrant Reform Jewish congregation right in the heart of manchester. We cater for a broad social, age and religious spectrum. we offer a broad range of activities, including:

regular Shabbat and festival services (including family and children services)
adult and multi-faith educational activities
Cheder for children from 5 to 13
conversion classes
activities for people of all age ranges, from youth, through young adults, to older members
shul visits for schools

I look forward to seeing you soon!

Rabbi Silverman's theme for his weekly Shabbat sermons for 2005 and the early part of 2006 were on an A-Z of Jewish values. As these stand together as a body, we have left them up on the website for those interested in our Jewish values: follow this link for the A-Z homepage.

Rabbi Dr. Reuven ('Bobby') Silverman has been the minister at Manchester Reform Synagogue for thirty years, since he arrived in September 1977. Prior to that he was at Edgware Reform Synagogue (1974-7) and the historic Mikve Israel-Emanuel, Dutch-Portuguese synagogue in Curacao Netherlands Antilles.

He is a member of the British Assembly of Rabbis (of which he was Chairman 1990-93), and a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of America.

Rabbi Silverman's PhD in is the History of Jewish Philosophy, for which he wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Jewish Reception of Spinoza from the 17th -20th centuries". He is also the author of "Baruch Spinoza, Outcast Jew, Universal Sage" (Symposium Press, 1995), an analysis of Spinoza's contribution to philosophy, biblical criticism, psychology and political theory.
He lectured in Modern Hebrew Language and Literature at the Manchester Dept of Middle Eastern Studies between 1984 and 1996. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies; his research interest is the contributions of Jews to psychology and psychotherapy (Guest Lecture on that subject Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies in February 2000). Rabbi Silverman holds an Advanced Diploma in Counselling and is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with a small but regular counselling practice.
He has regularly taken part in radio broadcasting since 1996 on Jewish themes BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4.

Rabbi Dr. Reuven Silverman