Synagogue Keren Or

Keren Or Synagogue (קרן אור) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 15 Rue Jules Vallès in Villeurbanne, in Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.

History
In 1981 the Liberal Israelite Community of Lyon (Communauté libérale israélite de Lyon (CLIL)) was founded. It closed four years later in 1985. In 1990, the community was relaunched as a Reform community, taking the name the Liberal Jewish Community (Communauté juive libérale (CJL)). It was supported by Rabbi François GaraÏ of the Liberal Jewish Community of Geneva and Rabbi Daniel Farhi of the Mouvement juif libéral de France. In September 2001, the synagogue hired its first rabbi and by 2002 had nearly 180 families and was holding services at 7 quai Jean-Moulin.

In 2012, the community merged with the Liberal Jewish Union of Lyon (l 'Union juive libérale de Lyon (UJLL)) and the synagogue was renamed Keren Or. In September 2015, the synagogue moved to its current location on rue Jules Vallès in Villeurbanne.

The community celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2020 and views itself as a modern, inclusive congregation. It supports gender equality, and is open to interfaith dialogue. The synagogue focuses on study of the Talmud Torah, along with contemporary research on historical criticism of the Bible.

Clergy
The congregation is led by Rabbi René Pfertzel, installed in December 2017, and Rabbi Haïm Casas, a Sephardic Jew from Cordoba, Spain. Following her studies at Leo Baeck College in London, in July 2019 Rabbi Daniela Touati, an Ashkenazi Jew from Romania joined the congregation.