Rabbi Shraga Feivel Halevy Zimmerman is the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead. He took up his appointment in 2008, in succession to Rabbi Bezalel Rakow, who died in 2003. He served previously as rabbi to a Community in Monsey, USA.
Rabbi Zimmerman's induction[1] was attended by the premier chareidi rabbis in England, Rabbi Ephraim Padwa of UOHC and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneebalg of Manchester's Machzikei Hadath community.
Rabbi Zimmerman is an alumnus of the Mirrer yeshiva and a close disciple of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. He has previously been a dayan in K'hal Adath Jeshurun, the chareidi community of Washington Heights, Manhattan,[2] and served as the rabbi of its Monsey community. He is a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Yonah Tsvi Horowitz, rabbi of Unsdorf and Frankfurt and in Letchworth during the war years.
| Preceded by Rabbi Bezalel Rakow |
ABD Gateshead 2008-date |
Succeeded by incumbent |