Avromi Freilich recently graduated from a one year course at the Jewish Deaf Association (JDA) in London, England. Also enrolled in his fourth year studying speech and language therapy at City University, Freilich, 30, is father of four children and oversees Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue’s elderly care program and also plans to have synagogue events interpreted in sign language. He recently interpreted the speeches of the rabbi and the bat mitzvah girl who s hearing who had deaf grandparents. “It was so moving,” he says, “It made the simcha…” Sue Cipin, JDA executive director says “Avromi has put his heart and soul into it. Being associated with a reverend who is able to communicate with deaf people and who has learned about their needs means so much to the JDA, whose members are often totally excluded from religious life because they cannot understand the proceedings”. Freilich says “Communicating with deaf people will be a significant part of my work so I thought it was important to converse in sign language.” JDA recently had its second signed Shabbat service at Finchley.