The presence of Jews in this industrial city in northern England is relatively recent. At the end of the 19th century, Zachariah Bern from Newcastle-upon-Tyne created the impetus for the establishment of a community in Gateshead. Creation of Gateshead’s yeshiva In 1929, his son-in-law, Moshe David Freed, along with other students such as David Dryan and David Baddiel, established ...