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 Principal of Lubavitch Senior Girls School, London

 

Professor Kate-Miriam Loewenthal 

 

Rabbi Eli Brackman, Director, Chabad of Oxford

 

The Chabad Research Unit is an independently funded branch of LubavitchUK,   Principal Rabbi Nachman Sudak OBE.  Charity no.227638