History
Bournemouth Reform Synagogue was founded in 1947 as the Bournemouth New Synagogue, a break-away from the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation in the town. The split met with fierce opposition from the Hebrew Congregation who at the time refused to share the cemetery. At the time it was the ninth Reform synagogue in the country. There have been a number of rabbis in the community over the last sixty years, the longest-serving being Rabbi David Soetendorp who held the post from 1972 to 2005, when he was succeeded by Rabbi Neil Amswych.
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