Richmond rabbi to fill Cockfosters vacancy

Rabbi Meir Shindler will be moving from Richmond to Cockfosters and North Southgate United Synagogue to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Rabbi Daniel Epstein to the Western Marble Arch congregation earlier this year.

The appointment of the rabbi and his wife Rina was approved overwhelmingly by Cockfosters members last week and the couple are expected to start their new roles in November.

Rabbi Meir Shindler was raised in London and has a first-class honours degree in mechatronics engineering from King’s College, London, where he received several awards.

After graduating, he worked in operational research for the government’s export credit guarantee department. Having spent three years in yeshivah in Israel before university, he attended Jerusalem Kollel after his spell in industry, gaining his semichah.