Two candidates from New York have been shortlisted by New North London Synagogue to succeed Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg as senior rabbi.
Rabbi Wittenberg, 67, is due to retire at the end of the year after 40 years’ service to a congregation that has grown into one of the largest in the country under his leadership – but he will continue in his role as senior rabbi of the Masorti movement.
Rabbi Danny Nevins served a large Conservative congregation in Michigan before becoming dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary – the Conservative movement’s main rabbinic academy – and head of school at Golda Och Academy, a Jewish day school in New Jersey. He is a volunteer leader of a minyan at Ansche Chesed Synagogue.
Rabbi Michel Schlesinger, who was raised in Brazil and received rabbinic ordination in Jerusalem, rose to become senior rabbi of the largest congregation in South America, the (Masorti) Congregação Israelita Paulita in São Paolo before moving to lead the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre in New York. He had a three-month sabbatical in East Finchley six years ago,
