ENGLAND — Six years after their arrival to serve the Jewish student population at England’s Cambridge University and provide additional services to the wider community, an independent synagogue in the college town has formally appointed Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven and Rochel Leigh as the institution’s resident rabbi and rebbetzin.
Cambridge Shul Looks to Campus Rabbi for Leadership
ENGLAND — Six years after their arrival to serve the Jewish student population at England’s Cambridge University and provide additional services to the wider community, an independent synagogue in the college town has formally appointed Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven and Rochel Leigh as the institution’s resident rabbi and rebbetzin.
For leaders at the Cambridge Traditional Jewish Congregation, which describes itself as “an Orthodox, but independent and unaffiliated community” and has never before had a resident rabbi, the move is both historic and indicative of the synagogue’s growth.
But for the Leighs, who established Chabad at Cambridge University in 2003, the appointment serves as the continuation of work they’ve done in trying to reach all of the city’s Jews, such as their Ganeinu Child Care for preschoolers and the one-year-old Cambridge Hebrew School, which boasts a student body of 30 pupils aged 2 to 12.
“When we arrived,” explains Reuven Leigh, “we quickly found ourselves intimately involved with the local Jewish community.”
Penina Metal
How wonderful that the Cambridge Community is growing by leaps and bounds.
Back in the 70’s when I lived in the area, we were hard-pressed to find a minyan unless we travelled to London.
Yasher Koach. May you go from strength to strength.
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Bassi Katz
Hatzlocha with everything!