Chaplain is a big noise in Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE’S NEW Jewish chaplaincy couple, Rabbi Mordechai and Lea Zeller, have been making their mark in the city, not least through Rabbi Zeller blowing the shofar in the market area.
The American-born rabbi and his family have come over from Israel to take up a three-year-post with University Jewish Chaplaincy for Cambridge and East Anglia. Rabbi Zeller is also a clinical psychologist and his anthropologist wife is doing a PhD.
“We’ve been in Cambridge for a month and what we are doing [by blowing the shofar] is getting to know the area and getting the students inter- ested in Rosh Hashanah. We’ve come from a beautiful community on top of a mountain in northern Israel. Now we’ve arrived in Cambridge, which seems to be a beautiful place.”
Sophie Dunoff, chief operating officer of University Jewish Chaplaincy, said the Zellers wanted students “to be as excited about the festival as they are”.