There is an international flavour to the new rabbinical studies intake at north London Progressive Jewish learning college, Leo Baeck.
Among those starting their studies in Israel will be Canadian Emily Jurman, a recent religious studies BA graduate from York University, who has undertaken various leadership roles with her home congregation in Greater Toronto.
Frenchman Jonas Jacquelin studied history and Jewish literature at the Sorbonne and has taught Judaism to young members of his Paris community.
The British first-year pair are Naomi Spencer and Adam Frankenberg. Ms Spencer, an LJS, St John's Wood, member, is an urban planner who has worked on projects relating to the government's sustainable communities agenda. But she now wants to dedicate herself to the Jewish community.
