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CHABAD PRESENCE AT UK UNIVERSITIES DOUBLES
(04/10/2008)
- At the start of the UK academic term, six new Chabad representative couples are greeting students at freshers' fairs at some of the country's top universities. The expansion more than doubles Chabad on Campus UK’s previous scope. An anonymous donor who had become fond of Chabad during his years at Oxford University is funding the initiative.
The new Chabad representatives are located at Bristol University, Imperial College London, Nottingham University, University of Edinburgh, and a cluster of universities in south London: Kingston, Roehampton, Surrey, Goldsmiths, and Royal Holloway, Greenwich, St. Georges Medical School and Wimbledon School of Art.
To date, Jewish students at Oxford, Cambridge, University College London, Brighton, Sussex, Leeds Universities, and University of London in Bloomsbury have benefited from campus Chabad representatives, but, says Rabbi Eli Brackman, Chairman of Chabad on Campus UK and director of Chabad at Oxford University, the time is ripe for growth.
“What we are doing is crucial for the future and continuity of Jewish life on UK campuses and Anglo-Jewry,” said Rabbi Brackman.
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