The CRU was set up in 1985 to explore ways of communicating the essence of Jewish teaching in today's world. It established the Friday Night project and an evolving series of study groups of various kinds.
The CRU team includes:
Director: Dr Tali (Naftali) Loewenthal FRSA
Rabbi Shmuel Lew FRSA, Member of Executive of LubavitchUK and Headmaster of Lubavitch Senior Girls School, London
Professor Kate-Miriam Loewenthal FRSM
Rabbi Eli Brackman, Director, Chabad of Oxford
Rabbi Reuven Leigh, Director, Chabad of Cambridge
Rabbi Menachem Junik, Director, Jewish Home Network
The Chabad Research Unit is an independently funded branch of LubavitchUK, Principal Rabbi Nachman Sudak OBE. Charity no.227638