Rabbi Yonasan and Yael Roodyn have spent their first Shabbat as Finchley Federation's new ministerial couple.
The Finchley post adds to the rabbi's varied communal responsibilities - he is educational director of Jewish Futures, a popular online lecturer, an expert in halachic issues and programme director for an annual rabbinic conference.
An experienced tour guide, he has led numerous groups to Jewish interest sites in the UK, Israel and Eastern Europe. He also holds a degree in government from the London School of Economics.
His wife, a former Hasmonean High pupil, has a bachelor’s degree in management science from LSE. During the couple's time in Israel, she worked for KPMG as a trainee actuary and taught in a number of Jerusalem seminaries.
