Rabbi Hershi Vogel grew up in London and went through the Lubavitch School system.
He has studied at yeshivot in London, New Jersey, Venezuela and New York, gaining a degree in Religious Studies in 1989. He has also travelled around South America assisting small communities that have no Rabbi. He was awarded semicha in 1992, which was also the year that he married his wife Zelda. As well as being Rabbi at Ealing United Synagogue, he is chaplain at both Heathrow Airport and Northwick Park Hospital.