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KEHILAT YONATAN - Hod HaSharon
Rabbi Michael Boyden
 P.O.Box 3735,
Hod HaSharon, ISRAEL
Phone: 011-972-9-746-3447
Fax: 011-972-9-746-3448
E-mail: boyden@kehilat-yonatan.org      Link to: www.kehilat-yonatan.org

Kehilat Yonatan is an independent Reform congregation in Hod Hasharon, an expanding residential town some
15 kms north of Tel Aviv.

Kehilat Yonatan is an independent Reform congregation in Hod Hasharon, an expanding residential town some 15 kms. north of Tel Aviv.

Established in 2001 as a registered charitable organization, our congregation is named in memory of Yonatan Boyden z"l, who served in an elite parachute regiment and was killed in 1993 while on active service in southern Lebanon.

Kehilat Yonatan holds regular Shabbat and festival services in a welcoming, egalitarian family atmosphere and places special emphasis upon the needs of the young. Our congregation sponsors a Social Justice Committee and also organizes educational, cultural and social activities.

Kehilat Yonatan established the Sharon Centre for Jewish Studies, which is a Beit Midrash for Jewish learning. The Centre sponsors exciting lecture series on Jewish themes, which are delivered by the foremost exponents in their fields. The programmes have been very well received by the public at large in the Sharon region.

Our congregation plans to sponsor major additional spiritual and academic programs on Jewish themes in the future.

An application has recently been lodged with Hod Hasharon city hall for the granting of land for us to build a synagogue, community centre and Jewish academy. We hope to sign contracts shortly.  Building Plans

We hope you share our vision and will join our young, expanding community.

Our rabbi, Rabbi Michael Boyden, will be happy to assist and advise you on all matters, including those related to Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremonies, weddings, funerals, memorial services and programs for conversion to Judaism. [ See Life Cycle Events ]

This Year In Jerusalem
Kehilat Yonatan will be happy to host your Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration.   Please click HERE for more information.

 

 

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Rabbi Boyden

Rabbi Michael Boyden was born in London, England and is a graduate in Hebrew Literature from London University. He was ordained by the
Leo Baeck College in London and served as the rabbi of Cheshire Reform Congregation near Manchester before making aliyah with his wife and two children in 1985.

He is a past President of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis and serves as the Director of its national Rabbinic Court. In these capacities, he represented the Reform Movement on the Ne’eman Commission established by the Israeli government to resolve the conversion crisis and subsequently on the Executive set up by the Jewish Agency to establish a Joint Institute to prepare candidates for conversion in co-operation with the Orthodox and Conservative streams.

Rabbi Boyden was the founding rabbi of the Ra'anana Reform Congregation in Israel for whom he spearheaded a successful 10-year campaign to be awarded public land by city hall and raise the necessary funds to erect a Synagogue and Community Center there.

Since 2001, he has served as the spiritual leader of "Kehilat Yonatan" in Hod Hasharon, which he established together with a group of committed Jews in the area.

KBY is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable, tax-exempt organization.  Contributions to KBY are tax-deductible, to the fullest
extent permitted by U.S. tax laws.  KBY is also registered with the NY State (NYS) Dept. of Law, Charities Bureau.
KBY's IRS registration and current Form 990 filing is posted under "Administration" and available from the IRS or NYS.
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