Rabbi Shraga Feivel Halevy Zimmerman is the ABD

Av Beit Din

Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Abh Beyth Diyn . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period. He presided over the Sanhedrin in the absence of the Nasi, and was the chief of the Sanhedrin when it sat as a criminal court...

 (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead. He took up his appointment in 2008, in succession to Rabbi Bezalel Rakow

Bezalel Rakow

Rabbi Bezalel Rakow was an orthodox rabbi who headed Gateshead’s Jewish community. He was the chair of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas Yisroel of Great Britain....

, who died in 2003. He served previously as rabbi to a Community in Monsey

Monsey, New York

Monsey is a hamlet , in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of the state of New Jersey; east of Suffern; south of Airmont and west of Nanuet...

, USA.

Rabbi Zimmerman's induction was attended by the premier chareidi rabbis in England, Rabbi Ephraim Padwa of UOHC and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneebalg of Manchester

Manchester

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's Machzikei Hadath community.

Rabbi Zimmerman is an alumnus of the Mirrer yeshiva

Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)

The Mir yeshiva , commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva or The Mir, is officially registered with the College Board as the Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute. It is a prominent, Haredi yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York known for its excellence in talmudic studies.Its long-time Rosh Yeshiva was...

 and a close disciple of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik

Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik

Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik is an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of one of the branches of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, Israel, attended by select young Talmudists, mainly from the United States...

. He has previously been a dayan in K'hal Adath Jeshurun, the chareidi community of Washington Heights

Washington Heights, Manhattan

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, Manhattan

Manhattan

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, and served as the rabbi of its Monsey

Monsey, New York

Monsey is a hamlet , in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of the state of New Jersey; east of Suffern; south of Airmont and west of Nanuet...

 community. He is a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Yonah Tsvi Horowitz, rabbi of Unsdorf and Frankfurt and in Letchworth during the war years.