The College
The Judith Lady Montefiore College was re-opened in London in 2005 as a centre for higher Torah education, with Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy as its Honorary Principal, and is registered with the Department for Education and Skills. It occupies premises attached to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' synagogue at Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London W9. For its first year, the College concentrated on establishing a Kollel and building up the necessary teaching staff.
In January 2006, the College opened its part-time Semicha Programme to train future rabbis for the Anglo-Jewish community as a whole. A further Semicha Course started in October 2009.
The College is making further plans in its efforts to promote higher Torah learning in several different ways.
The Honorary Principal
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Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy O.B.E., Spiritual Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation London, is actively involved in the running of the College and its associated Kollel. Amongst other roles in the wider community, Rabbi Levy is vice-chairman of L.S.J.S. (formerly Jews' College) and an ecclesiastical authority for the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Rabbi Levy was born in Gibraltar and attended Carmel College. He took his B.A. degree at Jews' College and his doctorate at University College London. Ever an educational innovator, he founded the Young Jewish Leadership Institute which served as the model for many of the adult educational programmes current today, and then went on to create the flourishing Naima Jewish Preparatory School.
Watch Rabbi Levy's video introduction to the College
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The Chairman
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Lucien Gubbay, chairman of trustees of the Montefiore Endowment, participates actively in the day to day administration of the College and the planning of its courses.
Born in Argentina and educated in Manchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, Lucien Gubbay then served in the Royal Air Force in Germany. He is a former president of the Board of Elders of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation and a trustee of L.S.J.S. (formerly Jews' College). A consulting engineer by profession, he has long been interested in religious history and has lectured and written extensively on that and related subjects.
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Leading Rabbis and Teachers
Front row, left to right:
Rabbi Abel, Dayan David (Sephardi Beth Din), Dayan Basri, Dayan Amor, Rabbi Abraham Levy
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