Shraga Feivel Zimmerman
Shraga Feivel Halevy Zimmerman is the av beit din of the Federation of Synagogues in London. He accepted the position on the 30th of June 2019, but took office in January 2020. Rabbi Zimmerman succeeded Dayan Lichtenstein as head of the organisation's religious court he is also the former rabbi and av beit din of the Jewish community in Gateshead, United Kingdom. He took up his appointment in 2020, following 11 and a half years in Gateshead where he succeeded Bezalel Rakow, who died in 2003. He served previously as rabbi to a community in Monsey.
Zimmerman's induction in Gateshead was attended by several Haredi rabbis in England, including Rabbi Ephraim Padwa of UOHC and Menachem Mendel Schneebalg of Manchester's Machzikei Hadath community.
Zimmerman is an alumnus of the Mirrer yeshiva and a close disciple of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. He has previously been the rabbi in Khal Adath Jeshurun, the Haredi German Ashkenazic community in Monsey, New York. He is a grandson of Yosef Yonah Tsvi Horowitz, rabbi of Unsdorf and Frankfurt and in Letchworth during the war years, who was also one of the rabbis of K'hal Adath Jeshurun in Frankfurt, Germany after Joseph Breuer before World War II.
