Hendon synagogue has appointed an additional rabbi to assist senior minister Rabbi Mordecai Ginsbury in the "ongoing revitalisation and development of the community". The new man is Rabbi Leo Dee, who recently returned to England after four years of study in Efrat, where he received semichah. The London-born rabbi gained a first-class degree in chemical engineering at Cambridge and worked for 10 years in the City. The appointment has been part-funded by Tribe, the United Synagogue youth wing, because of Rabbi Dee's focus on younger sections of the community.