Chabad on Campus UK completes network with opening of new student centre at Birmingham University

Chabad on Campus UK completes network with opening of new student centre at Birmingham University

Chabad on Campus UK is proud to announce the opening of a new centre dedicated to serving the Jewish students in Birmingham, England, the second largest city in the UK.

Rabbi Yossi and Rivki Cheruff intend to move to Birmingham in time for the new university term and look forward to expanding the provisions for Jewish students at Birmingham University and other institutions of higher education in Birmingham, serving one of the most substantial Jewish student populations in the UK.

The new centre aims to serve the Jewish students with Friday night Shabbat and festival dinners, stimulating and creative educational and social events and a home away from home for Jewish students from all backgrounds.

Rabbi Eli Brackman, Chairman of Chabad on Campus UK and Director of Chabad of Oxford, said ‘this new centre will serve as an important component in reaching out to more Jewish students at this leading UK university, with the aim of helping, together with other Jewish organisations, stem the tide of growing assimilation on UK campuses’.

Mr. Neil Cooper, Chairman of the Birmingham Jewish Chaplaincy Board, said, ‘we are very happy to work and cooperate with the new Chabad Rabbi on campus and look forward to mutual benefit for both organisations’.

This expansion follows the opening of centres at Manchester and Liverpool universities over the last year and will complete the network of Chabad on Campus UK with fourteen centres in total, situated on every major UK campus where there are considerable numbers of Jewish students, from Edinburgh to Brighton.

Other Chabad on Campus UK student centres include: Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Brighton, Bloomsbury, South Kensington, East End of London campuses and South London campuses

For more information, email [email protected] / www.chabadoncampus.org.uk