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Shaul Shimon Deutsch (born 1966) [1] is a rabbi and author from Brooklyn, New York. [2] Originally associated with the Chabad Hasidic community, during the mid-1990s, Deutsch attempted to form a breakaway sect and named himself the Liozna Rebbe .
The Leeds Jewish Welfare Board has provided aid since 1878. [56] The Leeds Jewish Housing Association has 500 homes. [57] The Leeds Jewish Institute was founded in 1896, and the Jewish Young Men's Association by 1901. [18] [58] The Leeds Jewish Representative Council has been active since 1938. [59] The first Leeds Jewish trade union dates from ...
The Living Torah Museum is a group of Orthodox Jewish museums that opened in 2002 and drew approximately 600,000 visitors in the first twelve years. [1] The museums were founded and are operated by rabbi and author Shaul Shimon Deutsch.
Rabbi L. Graf of the Reform Synagogue in Bradford attempted to start a community of worship in Leeds, presiding over a service of six people in a house in Oakwood on 8 January 1944. [4] Numbers grew and services moved to a variety of sites, eventually buying the defunct Sephardi Synagogue building at 21 Leopold Street, Leeds 7 in November 1951 ...
Shmuley Boteach, American-born Orthodox rabbi, author, and TV and radio host [271] Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi; Felix Carlebach, German-born rabbi; Eli Cashdan, rabbi; Albert Chait, rabbi and broadcaster, Leeds; Isidore Epstein, rabbi, principal of Jews' College; Harry Freedman, rabbi; Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Tutored by his father in cantorial music and ministerial duties, Chait first led services age 14. At 19 he was appointed in Leeds, where he is now Senior Rabbi to the United Hebrew Congregation, the largest UK congregation outside London, as well as Jewish Chaplain to Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.
The position is often defined by the country's secular authorities, and may also apply to leaders of the Jewish community in a given city. There may be separate Ashkenazi and Sephardi Chief Rabbis, representing the two main cultural divisions of the Jewish diaspora. There is an overall worldwide list, and specialized lists.
Yehuda Refson was born in Sunderland in 1946. [1] He studied at the Gateshead Yeshiva and in Brunoy, France. [citation needed]Dayan Refson [4] arrived in Leeds in 1976. [5]In addition to his rabbinical (Shomrei Hadas Synagogue), [6] beis din [7] and Chabad emissary/outreach activities, Refson and his wife are co-directors of the Leeds Menorah School.