Rabbi Chaim Ingram

Rabbi Chaim Ingram came with his wife, Judith, and two children to Australia from England where he had served as Assistant Rabbi of the Newcastle upon Tyne United Hebrew Congregation and as Rabbi of the Leicester Hebrew Congregation. In 1992 he was appointed first as principal Chazan then as Associate Rabbi at Sydney's Central Synagogue, the largest congregation in the Southern Hemisphere where he remained for eleven years. Subsequently he has served as Rabbi of The Caro Synagogue in Bondi and at Surfers Central Synagogue on Queensland's Gold Coast. He also taught at the Ohr Torah primary school. Currently Rabbi Ingram is director of the Kol Shira learning centre in Bondi, honorary rabbi of Sydney's Jewish Centre On Ageing and the honorary secretary of the Rabbinical Council of NSW a position he has held for eighteen years.

Rabbi Ingram has worked extensively with those seeking to return to their Jewish roots. Rabbi Ingram is honorary secretary of the NSW Rabbinical Council. He also serves as an aide to the Sydney Beth Din in the teaching and guidance of Gerim (converts to Judaism). Rabbi Ingram has an honours degree from the University of York and has studied at yeshivot and rabbinical seminaries in the UK and Israel. He has published numerous pamphlets and articles in various journals and is a regular contributor to the Australian Jewish News in which some of these essays first appeared.