May’s man visits Gateshead

THE PRIME Minister’s faith adviser, Jonathan Hellewell, met the Gateshead Rav, Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, during a visit to the strictly Orthodox community in the North-East town earlier this month.

Accompanied by Board of Deputies’ public affairs director Phil Rosenberg and Shlomi Isaacson of the Jewish Community Council of Gateshead, he visited a number of educational institutions.

In a further enagement with the community, the School Standards Minister, Nick Gibb, recently met senior rabbis from Stamford Hill in Westminster, among them a member of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations’ rabbinate, Dayan Shalom Friedman.