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"Chief Rabbinate" redirects here. See also Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Rabbi Uziel, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.[1] The Kotel is under the supervision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is the supreme Jewish religious governing body in the state of Israel. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים Standard Hebrew, AÅ¡kanazi,AÅ¡kanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAÅ¡kănāzî, ʾAÅ¡kănāzîm, pronounced sing. ... Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew SÉ™fardi, Tiberian Hebrew ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or . ...


Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own chief rabbis; this is especially the case in Israel but has also been past practice in major Jewish centres in Europe prior to the Holocaust. North American cities have rarely had chief rabbis, although some do have them: Montreal, in fact, has two — one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Region Montréal Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים Standard Hebrew, AÅ¡kanazi,AÅ¡kanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAÅ¡kănāzî, ʾAÅ¡kănāzîm, pronounced sing. ... Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew SÉ™fardi, Tiberian Hebrew ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or . ...


The Chief Rabbi's name is often followed by ABD, which stands for Av Beth Din.[citation needed] Av Beit Din, Hebrew for Father [of the] House of Justice. ...

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Chief rabbis by country/region

Argentina

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Ashkenazi

  • Shlomo Ben Hamo

Sephardi

  • Yosef Chehebar[2]

Australia

See Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... List of chief rabbis of the United Kingdom. ...


Austria

  • Akiva Eisenberg
  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg

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British Empire and Commonwealth

Main article: List of chief rabbis of the United Kingdom

Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... List of chief rabbis of the United Kingdom. ... Chief Rabbi Aaron Hart Aaron Hart (1670 - 1756) was the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death. ... Rabbi Hirschel Ben Aryeh Löb Levin (also known as Hart Lyon in England) (born at Rzeszow, Galicia, 1721, died Berlin August 26, 1800) was a friend of Moses Mendelsohn and Chief rabbi at London and Berlin and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim. ... Solomon Hirschell (1761, London - 31 October 1842, London) was the Chief rabbi of Great Britain, 1802-42. ... Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, a. ... Dr. Hermann Adler CVO (1839–1911) was Chief Rabbi of Britain from 1891 to 1911. ... Chief Rabbi Hertz, 1920 Joseph Herman Hertz, 25 September 1872–14 January 1946, was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. ... Israel Brodie (born 1895, Newcastle - died 1979) was the Chief Rabbi of England 1948 - 1965. ... Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, KBE (8 February 1921–31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. ... Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue, the United Kingdoms main body of Orthodox synagogues. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Chile

  • Angel Kreiman Brill — (1980-1998)
  • Gad Mansour — (1998-1999)
  • Roberto Feldman — (1999-Present)

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Cuba

  • Meir Rosenbaum — (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna, Elected 1948: left Cuba in 1956, a little more than two years before Fidel Castro came to power in the Revolution)

Image File history File links Flag_of_Cuba. ... Grand Rabbi Issamar Rosenbaum, The Elder Nadvorna Rebbe The Tombstone of Rebbe Issamar of Nadvorna on the Mt. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... Belligerents 26th of July Movement Cuba Commanders Fidel Castro Che Guevara Raul Castro Fulgencio Batista The Cuban Revolution refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batistas regime on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement and other revolutionary elements within the country. ...

Cyprus

Image File history File links Flag_of_Cyprus. ... Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, born in 1976, is the Rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . ...

Egypt

Image File history File links Flag_of_Egypt. ... Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi (1872–1960) was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 1900s. ...

Estonia

  • Michael Alony — (1995-1996)
  • Shmuel Kot — (2000-present)

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Finland

  • Michael Alony — (1995-1996)

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France

  • Jacob Kaplan — (1955-1981)
  • René Samuel Sirat — (1981-1987)
  • Joseph Sitruk — (1987-present)

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Guatemala

  • Meir Rosenbaum — (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna, Later Chief Rabbi of Cuba)

Image File history File links Flag_of_Guatemala. ... Nadvorna (Ukrainian: Надвірна; Polish: Nadwórna; Russian: Надворная; also known a Nadwirna, Nadvirna, and Nadvornaya) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. ...

Hungary

Note that this list is out of order.
  • Meir Eisenstadt known as the Panim Me'iros (1708-), rabbi of Eisenstadt and author of "Panim Me'irot"
  • Alexander ben Menahem
  • Phinehas Auerbach
  • Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig
  • Hirsch Semnitz
  • Simon Jolles — (1717-?)
  • Samson Wertheimer — (1693?-1724)(also Eisenstadt and Moravia)
  • Issachar Berush Eskeles — (1725-1753) [3]
  • Joseph Hirsch Weiss — (Grandfather of Stephen Samuel Wise.)[1] [2]
  • Samuel Kohn
  • Ferenc Hevesi
  • Moshe Kunitzer — (1828-1837), a pioneer of the Haskalah movement in Hungary.
  • Alfréd Schöner
  • Koppel Reich
  • Chaim Yehuda Deutsch
  • József Schweitzer

Image File history File links Flag_of_Hungary. ... Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt (c. ... // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J... Samson Wertheimer (1658 - 1724) was an Austrian financier, chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. ... Eisenstadt (Hungarian Kismarton, Croatian Željezno) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. ... For other uses, see Moravia (disambiguation). ... Joseph Hirsch Weiss, Hungarian rabbi; born at Podola, Nitra, 1800; died at Erlau, 1881. ... Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) was a Hungarian- born U.S. rabbi and Zionist leader. ...

Iran

  • Yedidiah Shofet
  • Uriel Davidi
  • Yousef Hamadani Cohen — (?-present)

Image File history File links Flag_of_Iran. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ireland

Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Ireland and, later, of the British mandate in Palestine and Israel, once formed. ... Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, KBE (8 February 1921–31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. ... For other persons named David Rosen, see David Rosen (disambiguation). ... Gavin Broder (1959 - ) is the former chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from 1996- October, 2000. ... Yaakov Pearlman is the current Chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from September 2001-present[1]. Pearlman had previously been the Rabbi of Light of Israel Congregation, in Rochester, New York. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Israel

Main article: Chief Rabbinate of Israel

The position of chief rabbi of the Land of Israel has existed for hundreds of years. During the mandatory period, the British recognized the chief Rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem. the offices continued after stateehood was achieved. Haredi Jewish groups (such as Edah HaChareidis) do not recognize the authority of the Chief Rabbinate. They usually have their own rabbis who do not have any connection to the state rabbinate. Image File history File links Flag_of_Israel. ... The Kotel is under the supervision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is the supreme Jewish religious governing body in the state of Israel. ... Haredi Judaism, also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Judaism. ... The Edah HaCharedis (Hebrew: העדה החרדית HaEdah HaCharedis), also written Edah Haredit, is a prominent Haredi rabbinical body in present-day Jerusalem. ...


Please note that under current Israeli law, the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beer Sheba). In other cities there may be one main rabbi to whom the other rabbis of that city defer, but that post is not officially the "Chief Rabbi". For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Hebrew Arabic حَيْفَا Government City District Haifa Population 266,300 (city) 1,039,000 (metropolitan area) Jurisdiction 63,666 dunams (63. ... Beersheba or Beer Sheva (Hebrew באר שבע; Arabic بئر السبع Biʾr as-Sabʿ) is a city in Israel. ...


Many of Israel's chief rabbis were previously chief rabbis of Israeli cities.

Ashkenazi

Sephardi

Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Ireland and, later, of the British mandate in Palestine and Israel, once formed. ... Unterman, Isser Yehuda Isser Yehuda Unterman, Israels second Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, was born in 1886 in Brest-Litovsk (Brisk), where his father was a teacher. ... Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. ... Rabbi Avraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira (May 15, 1914 – September 27, 2007), was a prominent figure in the Religious Zionist world. ... Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (born 1937 in Piotrków, Poland) is a former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi (1993–2003) of the state of Israel. ... Rabbi Yona Metzger Yona Metzger (יונה מצגר) (born 1953) is the current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Yitzhak Nissim (1896 - 1981) (Hebrew:יצחק נסים), was a former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. ... Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף) (b. ... Mordechai Eliyahu (born: 1929, Jerusalem) was a former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel. ... Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (b. ... Rabbi Shlomo Amar Rabbi Shlomo Amar (1948 - ) is the current Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Military Rabbinate

  • Shlomo Goren (1948-1968)
  • Mordechai Peron (1968-1977)
  • Gad Navon (1977-2000)
  • Israel Weiss (2000-2006)
  • Avichai Rontzki (2006-present)

The Military Rabbinate is a unit in the Israel Defense Forces that provides religious services to soliders, including non-Jews. ... Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. ...

Mandate of Palestine

Ashkenazi

Sephardi

  • Jacob Meir — (1921-1939)
  • Benzion Uziel — (1939-1948)

Image File history File links Palestine-Mandate-Ensign-1927-1948. ... Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, statesman, diplomat, mediator and a renowned Torah scholar. ... Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Ireland and, later, of the British mandate in Palestine and Israel, once formed. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Lebanon

  • Rabbi Danon — (1908-1909)
  • Jacob Maslaton — (1910-1921)
  • Salomon Tagger — (1921-1923)
  • Shabtai Bahbout — (1924-1950)
  • Benzion Lichtman — (1932-1959)
  • Jacob Attiyeh — (1949-1966)
  • Chaoud Chreim — (1960-1978)

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Morocco

  • Mardo Chee Bengio - click here for a letter written by Rav Bengio [6]
  • Rabbi Mikail Encaoua
  • Chalom Messas

Image File history File links Flag_of_Morocco. ... Rabbi Chalom MESSAS (1909-2003) was the Great Rabbi of Morocco, and after making aliyah became the Sephardic Great Rabbi of Jerusalem. ...

Mexico

Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... (Yaakov Avigdor) Polish rabbi and author. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Poland

See also: List of Polish Rabbis

Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Polands borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Rabbi Michael Schudrich (b. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Russia

Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... Adolf Shayevitch (born 1938) is one of two completing claimants to the title of Chief Rabbi of Russia. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rabbi Berel Lazar is the Chief Rabbi of Russia, and is the chairman of the rabbinical alliance of the CIS. Education A native of Milan, Italy, Rabbi Lazar was born in 1964 to parents who were among the first emissaries of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . ...

South Africa

Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Africa. ... Louis Isaac Rabinowitz (in Hebrew, Levi Yitzhak Rabinowitz) (1906-1984) was a rabbi, historian and philologist of the twentieth century. ... Rabbi Warren Goldstein is the chief rabbi of South Africa. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Thailand

  • Yosef Kantor

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United States

A chief Rabbinate never truly developed within the United States for a number of different reasons. While Jews first settled in what is now the US in the 1500s in the desert southwest, and 1654 in New Amsterdam, Rabbis did not appear in the United States until the mid-Nineteenth Century. This lack of Rabbis, coupled with the lack of official colonial or state recognition of a particular sect of Judaism as official (e.g. Ottolengui v. Ancker) effectively led to a form congregationalism amongst American Jews. This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American Judaism, and in fact, some chief Rabbis developed in some American cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an Orthodox past, effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America.[7] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation indepedently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... Jonathan D. Sarna is a professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and one of the most prominent sociologists of the American Jewish community. ...


Transylvania

Note: The chief rabbi of Transylvania was generally the rabbi of the city of Alba Iulia. Image File history File links Flag_of_Transylvania_before_1918. ... This article is about the region in Romania. ... Alba Iulia (Hungarian: Gyulafeh r, German: Karlsburg) is a city in Alba county, Transylvania, Romania with a population of 66,369, located on the Mureş river. ...

  • Joseph Reis Auerbach — (d. 1750)
  • Shalom Selig ben Saul Cohen — (1754-1757)
  • Johanan ben Isaac — (1758-1760)
  • Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf of Cracow — (1764-1777)
  • Moses ben Samuel Levi Margaliot — (1778-1817)
  • Menahem ben Joshua Mendel — (1818-23)
  • Ezekiel Paneth — (1823-1843)
  • Abraham Friedmann — (d. 1879), the last chief rabbi of Transylvania

Tunisia

  • Chaim Madar — (1984-2004)

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Turkey

See also: Hakham Bashi
  • Shabbetai Levi — (1920-1922)
  • Isaac Ariel — (1922-1926)
  • Haim Bejerano — (1926-1931)
  • Haim Isaac Saki — (1931-1940)
  • Rafael David Saban — (1940-1960)
  • David Asseo — (1961-2002)
  • Ishak Haleva — (2003-present)

Image File history File links Flag_of_Turkey. ... Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Hahambaşı) is the Turkish name for the Chief Rabbi of the nation. ... Ishak Haleva (1940, İstanbul) is the current Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) of Turkey. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Uganda

Image File history File links Flag_of_Uganda. ... The Abayudaya (Abayudaya is Luganda for People of Judah[2][3], analogous to Children of Israel) are a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. ...

Ukraine

  • Yaakov Dov Bleich - (1992-present) - original post-communism chief rabbi, still widely recognized Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kiev
  • Alex Dukhovny - The Progressive (Liberal/Reform) Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine
  • Azriel Haikin - (2003-present) - Chabad affiliated - not fully recognized as Ukraine Chief Rabbi, but heads the Ukrainian Chabad [3]
  • Moshe Reuven Azman - (2005-present) - rabbi from Chabad, though elected mostly by secular Jewish leaders and not by any rabbinical authority [4]

Image File history File links Flag_of_Ukraine. ... Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (born 1964) a U.S.-born rabbi and member of the Karlin-Stoliner Chassidic group, has been widely recognized as chief rabbi of both Kiev and Ukraine since 1992. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Liberal Judaism is a term used by some communities worldwide for what is otherwise also known as Reform Judaism or Progressive Judaism. ... Reform Judaism can refer to (1) the largest denomination of American Jews and its sibling movements in other countries, (2) a branch of Judaism in the United Kingdom, and (3) the historical predecessor of the American movement that originated in 19th-century Germany. ... Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted Coordinates: , Country Ukraine Oblast Kiev City Municipality Raion Municipality Government  - Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi Elevation 179 m (587 ft) Population (2006)  - City 4,450,968  - Density 3,299/km² (8,544. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . ... Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman (born 1966) is the Chabad chief Rabbi of Ukraine, one of three rabbis with a claim on the title, and one of two Chabad rabbis with a claim. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Uruguay

  • Nechemia Berman (1970-1993)

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Venezuela

Ashkenazi

  • Pynchas Brener

Sephardi

  • Isaac Cohen

Image File history File links Flag_of_Venezuela. ...

Chief rabbis by city

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Image File history File links Flag_of_Amsterdam. ... Painting of Tzvi Ashkenazi Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi (1656 Moravia- May 2, 1718 Lemberg) (Hebrew: ), known as the Chacham Tzvi (after a responsa by the same title), for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of the false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. ...

Antwerp, Belgium

Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Rav Kreiswirths sermon at the laying of the foundation stone of the old-age home in 1955 Rav Kreiswirth in later life A fraction of the mourners at the Ravs funeral in Israel HaGaon Harav Chaim Kreiswirth (1918-2001) served as the longtime Chief Rabbi of Antwerp and...

Baltimore, United States

  • Abraham N. Schwartz — (d. 1934)
  • Joseph H. Feldman — (retired 1972, d. 1992)

Flag of City of Baltimore File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Birobidzhan, Russia

  • Mordechai Scheiner — (2002 - present)

Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast. ... Mordechai Sheiner is Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2002. ...

Budapest, Hungary

Image File history File links Coat_of_arms_of_Budapest. ... Rabbi Yonasan Steif (1877-1958) was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbi Moshe Feinstein referred to as the gadol hador (spiritual leader of the generation). ...

Caracas, Venezuela

Ashkenazi

Sephardi

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Chicago, United States

  • Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky known as the Ridbaz, served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations in the city from 1903-1905.

Image File history File links Municipal_Flag_of_Chicago. ... Ridvaz Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (February 7, 1845–1913), known by the acronym Ridvaz or Ridbaz, was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic commentator and educator. ...

Haifa, Israel

Ashkenazi

  • She'ar Yashuv Cohen

Sephardi

Image File history File links Haifa_coa. ... Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (b. ...

Hebron, Israel

Also know as the Sedei Chemed, Rabbi Medini, born in Jerusalem (d. ...

Hoboken, United States

Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn (1857-1935) was born in Tzfat, (city in the Galilee, Palestine), to Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn, who had emigrated there from Pinsk in 1848. ... Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. ... The skyline of Jersey City, as seen from Lower New York Bay. ... Union Hill was a town that existed in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, from 1864 to 1925. ...

Hong Kong, China

Image File history File links Flag_of_Hong_Kong. ... Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue, the United Kingdoms main body of Orthodox synagogues. ...

Jerusalem, Israel

Ashkenazi

Sephardi

  • Jacob Saul Elyashar
  • Jacob Meir

Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Rabbi Shmuel Salant Rabbi Shmuel Salant (January 2, 1816 – August 16, 1909) served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. ... A Haredi Judaism yeshiva (jewish school) of higher learning that allows their boys (or bochurim) to pursue a secular education while remaining in the yeshiva. ... Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank (1873–1961) (Hebrew: צבי פסח פרנק) was a renowned Halachic scholar and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades. ...

Leiden, the Netherlands

  • Simon de Vries

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Montreal, Canada

Ashkenazi

  • Pinchas Hirschprung — (1969-1998) [9]
  • Avraham David Niznik — (1998-2006) [9][10]

Sephardi

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Moscow, Russia

  • Yakov Maze — (prior to 1924-1933)
  • Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia — (1933-1938)
  • Shmuel Leib Levin — (1943-1944)
  • Shlomo Shleifer — (1944-1957)
  • Yehuda Leib Levin — (1957-1972)
  • Adolf Shayevich — (1983, officially since 1993-present)
  • Pinchas Goldschmidt - (1987-present)

Download high resolution version (532x631, 153 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Adolf Shayevitch (born 1938) is one of two completing claimants to the title of Chief Rabbi of Russia. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Munich, Germany

  • Pinchos Biberfeld, moved back to Germany from where he had emigrated to Israel over 50 years earlier. (1980-1999)
  • Steven Langnas, the first not German born (yet of German descent) Chief Rabbi and Av Beis Din of Munich — (1999-present)

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New York City, United States

  • Jacob Joseph was the only true Ashkenazi chief rabbi of New York City; there was never a Sephardi chief rabbi, although Dr. David DeSola Pool acted as a leader among the Sepharadim and was also respected as such. Others it has been said claimed the title of Chief Rabbi; eventually, the title became worthless through dilution.
  • Yosef Yitzchok Parnes, the Brooklyner Rebbe, was also considered as such, arriving in Borough Park, Brooklyn in approximately 1913; due to the many non-observant Jews then working for the local utility companies, he did not use any electricity on the Sabbath. Many religious Jews in America in the early 1900s were his adherents.

Image File history File links Flag_of_New_York_City. ... Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840-1902) was the first and only Chief Rabbi in New York City. ... Borough Park street covered with snow. ... This article is about the New York City borough, or Kings County, New York. ...

Nové Zámky, Slovakia

Ernest Klein (1899 - February 4, 1983) was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. ...

Rome, Italy

Image File history File links Flag_of_Rome. ... Israel Anton Zoller (September 27, 1881, Brody, Galicia, Ukraine - March 2, 1956) was an Italian Jewish Rabbi who later converted to Roman Catholicism. ... Elio Toaff (born 1915) is the former chief rabbi of Rome. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • Josiyahu Pardo
  • Arye Leib Breslau
  • Dr. Joseph Isaacsohn
  • Dr. Bernhard Löbel Ritter
  • A.B.N. Davids
  • Lou Vorst — (1945-1971)
  • A. Hutterer
  • Raphael Evers

Image File history File links Flag_Rotterdam. ... Rabbi Raphael Evers (Amsterdam, 1954) is a Dutch rabbi. ...

St. Louis, Missouri

  • Chaim Fischel Epstein
  • Menachem Zvi Eichenstein 1943-1982
  • Sholom Rivkin [12] ( -present)

Image File history File links Flag_of_St. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

Image File history File links Tel Aviv coat of arms This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ...

Sephardi

Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף) (b. ... Also: Haim David ha-Levi, etc. ...

Vienna, Austria

  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg

Image File history File links Flag_of_Wien. ...

Warsaw, Poland

Image File history File links Flag_of_Warsaw. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Rabbi Michael Schudrich (b. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Zurich, Switzerland

  • Mordechai Piron

Coat of Arms of the City of Zurich File links The following pages link to this file: Zürich ...

References

  1. ^ Rabbi Ovadia Yosef And His Culture War In Israel
  2. ^ Jewish Travel Advisor
  3. ^ Personality of the week: Issachar Berush Eskeles. Beit Hatefutsot.
  4. ^ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jspartid=2123&letter=A&search=auerbach?
  5. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E3D6173EE733A25754C1A96E9C946897D6CF
  6. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02EFDD173EE733A25753C1A9609C946797D6CF
  7. ^ Jonathan Sarna, 'American Judaism: A History', New Haven: Yale University Pres, 2004.
  8. ^ Title page of Malki Ba-Kodesh, vol. 2; Hoboken, 1921
  9. ^ a b Bnei Brak rabbi named to new beit din post
  10. ^ The Yeshiva World - Frum Jewish News
  11. ^ Grand Rabbinat du Québec
  12. ^ Meet Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum

Beth Hatefutsoth (Hebrew for The Diaspora House) - the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, was established in 1978, and is located on the Tel Aviv University campus in Ramat Aviv. ...

External links

  • Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

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