Ohel Leah Synagogue’s Spiritual Leaders Over the Years

Ohel Leah Synagogue in the 1980s
Ohel Leah Synagogue, an ink sketch by June Tomlinson, June 1984
June and her family arrived in HK in 1954. Her husband, Tom Tomlinson, became the director of waterworks for the territory and he brokered the deal with China for piped water.
Ohel Leah Synagogue in 1989 (courtesy of the Hong Kong Public Library)
YearsLeader
1868 – 1868Max Wolff (reverend)
1906 – 1920Eliyahu Yitzhak Hazan Hacham (cantor)
1920 – 1930Isaac Ezra Elias (cantor)
1926 – 1961Raymond Eleazer (rabbi)
August 1961 – late 1962Joir Adler (reverend – Orthodox)
April 1963 – November 1963Ferdinand Myron Isserman (rabbi – Reform)
February 1964 – late 1973David Benhayon (reverend, later rabbi)
January 1974 – mid 1977Solomon (Shlomo) Truzman (reverend, later rabbi)
April 1978 – late 1984David Hirshberg (reverend)
September 1985 – August 1986Mordechai Avtzon (rabbi – Chabad)
September 1986 – April 1990Meyer Bensoussan (rabbi – Orthodox)
April 1990 – June 1993Benzion Lapian (rabbi – Orthodox)
July 1993 – June 1997Shmuel Lopin (rabbi – Orthodox)
September 1997 – June 2003Yaakov Kermaier (rabbi – Orthodox)
June 2003 – December 2005David Zadok (rabbi – Orthodox)
January 2006 – October 2006Edward Jackson (rabbi – Orthodox)
October 2006 – February 2010Martin van den Bergh (rabbi – Orthodox)
March 2010 – October 2010Edward Jackson (rabbi – Orthodox)
October 2010 – presentAsher Oser (rabbi – Orthodox)