Rabbi Joseph Dweck is Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom, the longest-standing Jewish community in the United Kingdom. He studied in Jerusalem at Yeshiva Hazon Ovadia and received his Semikha from Hakham Ovadia Yosef. He has a Masters in Jewish Education from Middlesex University, and has also studied Psychology & Philosophy at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles. For sixteen years he served as Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Shalom, a large Syrian Sephardi synagogue in New York, and for six years was Headmaster of Barkai Yeshivah in Brooklyn.