Young Jewish women come to study at the Teacher Training College and Beis Chaya Rochel.
[5] The community was established at the end of the 19th century when Eastern European Jewish refugees Eliezer Adler and Zachariah Bernstone chose to leave the Newcastle upon Tyne congregation, which they viewed as too lenient in religious matters, and crossed the river to set up a new synagogue.
[6] Following the Holocaust, Gateshead became home to the largest Orthodox Jewish education complex in postwar Europe, and the most significant outside of the United States and Israel.
This can partly be attributed to the arrival of Orthodox Jewish refugees who were fleeing the European mainland during the Nazi era.
And it was Reb Dovid Dryan in 1941, whose Torah permeated soul conceived the idea – wild impractical and heroic – of setting up a Kolel in Gateshead.
In September 1941 (Elul 5740) he sent letters to 20 prominent Rabbonim in England inviting them to join him in making his latest dream a reality.
When visionary Rabbi Zelig Kupetz, with the guidance of community leader Mr Meir Menashe Bodner launched his new project to rejuvenate the town,[9] Gateshead Community Kollel attracted 200 new students, including the famous inventor David Gurwicz.
Pictures of Jewish institutions in Gateshead No records have been found of Jews being resident in Newcastle before 1830 although there is a tradition that the community dates from 1775.
Through the course of time nearly all the original founders either died or had left the city, but the influx of Polish and Russian immigrants had more than replaced this loss.
At the 2001 census, 114 people of Jewish faith were recorded as living in Sunderland, a vanishingly small percentage.