Beth and Jerry Jordan of Leawood announce the engagement of their daughter, Rabbi Leah Greenwald Jordan, to Rabbi Benji Stanley, son of Carol and Jack Stanley of London.
The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Pola Greenwald and the late Gilbert Greenwald and Marianna Jordan and the late Jack Jordan, Glasco, Kan. She graduated from the University of Kansas Honors Program with a major in English and minors in history and French.
The future groom is the grandson of the late Esme and Cyril Joseph and the late Sophie and Joseph Burnstein. He graduated from Oxford, where he studied English literature.
In July, the future bride and groom were ordained from Leo Baeck College in London and received master’s degrees in Jewish studies from King’s College.
An Oct. 6 wedding at Congregation Beth Torah is planned. After their marriage, the couple will live in London where Rabbi Jordan will be a student and young adult chaplain at the Montague Centre of Liberal Judaism and admissions and recruitment adviser at Leo Baeck College. Rabbi Stanley will be joining the rabbinic team at West London Synagogue.
