The trustees of the synagogue of outspoken Golders Green rabbi Aharon Bassous have told him he will have to resign in February unless he agrees to a protocol put to him in October.
After weeks of tension within the Beth Hamedrash Knesset Yehezkel Sephardi congregation, the trustees accused him in a letter marked “strictly private and confidential” on Monday of not responding meaningfully to suggestions of mediation.
They said they wanted to sort out “all the various issues between us”, including the financial situation of the charity. Earlier this month, trustees warned members of the congregation that they might have to sell its new building, opened earlier this year.
“As a result of not having moved forwards in our attempts to resolve matters, we have no alternative but to treat your resignation as currently running its course,” they told Rabbi Bassous.
