Aish UK is pleased to announce Rabbi Dovid Lichtig as their new Managing Director, effective immediately. Rabbi Dovid Lichtig joins Aish UK from NCSY in Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Business Management from Wayne State University and an MBA in Business Administration from Missouri State University. He has studied in various top Talmudic institutes across the world creating personal relationships with Torah luminaries such as R’ Shmuel Birnbaum OB’M and R’ Dovid Soloveitchik and has received rabbinic ordination in both the United States and Israel. He has spent nearly the last decade in Detroit, Michigan as NCSY Associate Regional Director where he was responsible for staff management, program development and providing strategic vision to the Central East region of NCSY.

He has also consulted for NCSY nationally including co-chairing the 2016 NCSY International Staff Convention for the more than 300 NCSY staff members across the globe.

Rabbi Lichtig born in London, has moved back to the UK with his wife Chavi and their four children in order to take up the role.

Rabbi Daniel Rowe, Executive Director Aish UK said: “I am delighted to welcome Rabbi Lichtig to the Aish UK team as our new Managing Director. Rabbi Lichtig brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge to the role and we have no doubt that he will be an excellent addition to the team. As we look towards growing and developing Aish UK, we know that Rabbi Lichtig will be an integral part of this and are very excited to have him on board.”

Rabbi Dovid Lichtig, said: “Aish UK is a world renowned organisation and I am thrilled to be joining as their new Managing Director. It is an honour to be given the opportunity to lead such an outstanding team of people who are at the forefront of informal Jewish education in the UK and I hope to be able to help Aish continue to grow and develop in the foreseeable future.”