With a population of less than 30,000 people and a prime location in the heart of South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England, the market town of Kendal has a quaint charm buoyed by its distance from the United Kingdom’s large cities.
Were it not for the work of Jewish organizations 80 miles to the south in Manchester, the few Jewish residents who call Kendal home would likely find their peaceful paradise devoid of such seemingly ubiquitous items as Passover matzah and Chanukah menorahs. Rabbi Yisrael Cohen, director of L’Chaim Outreach, a program of the Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Manchester, remembers one Passover when he visited a Jewish couple living in a farm house in a remote part of the countryside around Kendal....