Chief Rabbi ( he, רב ראשי ''Rav Rashi'') is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's
Jewish community
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (, born 23 May 1880, died 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953.
Biography
Ben-Zion Meir Ha ...
, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...
and one
Sephardi
Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (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 centers in Europe prior to
the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
. North American cities rarely have chief rabbis. One exception however is
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
, with two—one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi.
Jewish law
''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also Romanization of Hebrew, transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Judaism, Jewish religious laws which is derived from the Torah, written and Oral Tora ...
provides no
scriptural
Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition. They differ from literature by being a compilation or discussion of beliefs, mythologies, ritual prac ...
or
Talmud
The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cente ...
ic support for the post of a "chief rabbi." The office, however, is said by many to find its precedent in the religio-political authority figures of Jewish antiquity (e.g.,
kings
Kings or King's may refer to:
*Monarchs: The sovereign heads of states and/or nations, with the male being kings
*One of several works known as the "Book of Kings":
**The Books of Kings part of the Bible, divided into two parts
**The ''Shahnameh'' ...
exilarch
The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) during the era of the Parthians, Sasanians and Abbasid Caliphate up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing ...
s and ''gaonim''). The position arose in Europe in the Middle Ages from governing authorities largely for secular administrative reasons such as collecting taxes and registering vital statistics, and for providing an intermediary between the government and the Jewish community, for example in the establishment of the Crown rabbi in several kingdoms of the
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
**
**
* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
, the ''rab de la corte'' in the
Kingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (; es, Reino de Castilla, la, Regnum Castellae) was a large and powerful state on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the host of castles constructed in the region. It began in the 9th centu ...
or the ''arrabi mor'' in the
Kingdom of Portugal
The Kingdom of Portugal ( la, Regnum Portugalliae, pt, Reino de Portugal) was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic. Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also kno ...
, likely influenced by the expectations of their
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
,
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...
, and
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
governments and neighbors. Similarly, in the 19th century there was a '' Crown rabbi'' of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
.
By country / region
Albania
* Joel Kaplan (2010–present)
Argentina
Sephardi (Syrian)
*
Salomon Benhamu
Salomon may refer to:
People
* Salomon (given name)
* Salomon (surname)
Companies
* Salomon Brothers, a former investment bank, now a part of Citigroup
* Salomon Group, a company manufacturing sporting equipment (which was a part of Adidas-Salom ...
*
Yosef Chehebar
Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yadah meaning "praise", "fame" and the word ...
Sephardi
*
Isaac Sacca
Rabbi Isaac Antebi Sacca ( he, יצחק ענתבי סקה (born 1964) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Buenos Aires, as well as the founder and president of Menora, an organization for Jewish youth.
Biography Early life and education
Rabbi Sacca ...
(1997–present)
Ashkenazi
*
Gabriel Davidovich
Gabriel Davidovich is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Argentina. He is based at the AMIA Jewish center, where he has led the community since 2013. In February 2019, he was violently assaulted in an anti-Semitic attack at his Buenos Aires
Buenos A ...
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the ''Tosefet Yom-Tov'' (1614–1617). Heller was one of the major ...
Samson Wertheimer
Samson Wertheimer (17 January 1658 – 6 August 1724) was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and ''Shtadlan'' to Austrian Emperor Leopold I.
Family
Wertheimer was born in ...
Isaak Noah Mannheimer
Isaac Noah Mannheimer (October 17, 1793, Copenhagen – March 17, 1865, Vienna) was a Jewish preacher.
Biography
The son of a ''chazzan'', he began the study of the Talmud at an early age, though not to the neglect of secular studies. On completi ...
(1824–1865)
*
Lazar Horowitz
Lazar Horowitz, or Eleazar HaLevi Ish Horowitz, Eleasar ben David Josua Hoeschel Horowitz, aka El'azar Hurwitz (1803/1804, Floß, Upper Palatinate - June 11, 1868, Vöslau) was an Orthodox Rabbi who led the Orthodox Jewish community of Vienna du ...
(1828–1868), chief rabbi of
Vienna
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Adolf Jellinek
Adolf Jellinek ( he, אהרן ילינק ''Aharon Jelinek''; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at t ...
(1865–1893)
*
Moritz Güdemann
Moritz Güdemann ( he, משה גידמן; 19 February 1835 – 5 August 1918) was an Austrian rabbi and historian. He served as chief rabbi of Vienna.
Biography
Moritz (Moshe) Güdemann attended the Jewish school in Hildesheim, and thereafter we ...
(1894–1918)
*
Zwi Perez Chajes
Zwi Perez Chajes, also Tzvi-Peretz Hayot, (13 October 1876 – 13 December 1927) was a rabbi, historian, biblical scholar and a notable Zionist leader.
Biography
Zwi Perez Chajes was born in 1876 in Brody, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Uk ...
(1918–1927)
*
David Feuchtwang David Feuchtwang (27 November 1864 – 6 July 1936) was a Jewish scholar and author, and chief rabbi of Vienna from 1933 until his death in 1936.
David Feuchtwang was born in Nikolsburg, Moravia (now Mikulov, Czech Republic) on 27 November 1864, th ...
(1933–1936)
*
Israel Taglicht Israel Taglicht (March 9, 1862 − December 13, 1943) was the Chief Rabbi of Austria. Life
Taglicht was born on March 9, 1862 in Berezó, Hungary, the son of Josef Taglicht and Nelly Spitzer.
A descendent of the Maharam Schick, Taglicht attende ...
(1936), provisional chief rabbi
* Insp. I. Öhler (1946), preacher at the
Stadttempel
The Stadttempel ( en, City Prayer House), also called the Seitenstettengasse Temple, is the main synagogue of Vienna, Austria. It is located in the Innere Stadt 1st district, at Seitenstettengasse 4.
History
The synagogue was constructed from 182 ...
*
Akiva Eisenberg
Dr. Akiba Eisenberg (20 September 1908 – 8 April 1983) was a former Chief Rabbi of Vienna.
Biography
Eisenberg was born in Vác, near Budapest. During World War II, he survived by hiding with his brother in the outlying area with non-Jewish f ...
(1948–1983)
*
Paul Chaim Eisenberg
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(1983–2016)
*
Arie Folger
Arie is a masculine given name.
As a Dutch name, Arie (pronounced ) is generally a short form of Adrianus, but sometimes also of Arend or Arent, Arnout or Arnoud, or even Aaron.
As a Hebrew, Jewish, or Israeli name, Arie (pronounced ) is a tra ...
(July 2016)
Belgium
*
Eliakim Carmoly
Eliakim Carmoly (5 August 1802 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, France – 15 February 1875 in Frankfurt) was a French scholar. He was born at Soultz-Haut-Rhin, then in the French department of Haut-Rhin. His real name was ''Goschel David Behr'' (or ''Ba ...
Aristide Astrue
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in ...
*
Élie-Aristide Astruc
Élie-Aristide Astruc (December 12, 1831 - February 23, 1905) was a French Rabbi, essayist, and the Grand Rabbi of Belgium from 1866 to 1879.
Biography
Élie-Aristide Astruc was born on December 12, 1831, in Bordeaux, France, where the Astruc f ...
(1866–1879)
*
Abraham Dreyfus
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant (biblical), special ...
*
Armand Bloch
Armand Lucien Bloch (1 July 1866, Montbéliard - 5 March 1932, Paris) was a French sculptor.
Life and work
His father, Maurice Bloch, was a sculptor, who established a metal casting company in 1857. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1884, ...
Bulgaria
* Gabriel Almosnino (1880–1885)
* Presiado Bakish (1885–1889)
*
Shimon Dankowitz Shimon ( he, שמעון) is the original Hebrew pronunciation of the names Simon and Simeon. Among individuals, Shimon can refer to:
Given names
* Shimon Agranat (1906-1992), Israeli judge and President of the Israeli Supreme Court
* Shimon Amsale ...
(1889–1891)
* Moshe Tadjer (1891–1893)
*
Moritz Grünwald Moritz is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. It may refer to:
People Given name
* Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century
* Prince Moritz of Hesse (2007), the son of ...
Mordecai Ehrenpreis
Mordecai Ehrenpreis (25 June 1869 – 26 February 1951) was a Hebrew author, publisher and Zionist activist. From 1914 until his death he served as chief rabbi of Stockholm. Biography
Mordechai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis was born in Lviv. As a young man ...
(1900–1914)
*
M. Hezkeya Shabetay Davidov
( ; ; pl. ; ; 1512, from Middle French , literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court. It has now become the customary French title of respec ...
(1914–1918)
*
David Pifano
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
(1920–1925)
* No Chief Rabbi (1925–1945)
*
Asher Hannanel
Asher ( he, אָשֵׁר ''’Āšēr''), in the Book of Genesis, was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's eighth son) and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher.
Name
The text of the Torah states that the name of ''Asher' ...
Yoel Yifrach Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to:
* Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name.
* Joel (surname), a surname
* Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazili ...
Chaim Menachem Bentzion Blumenkrantz
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, wikt:חיים#Proper noun, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ...
Miguel Attias
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Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to:
Places
* Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
* São Miguel (disa ...
(1948-Early 1950)
*
David Sharbani
David Sharbani ( he, דוד שרבני; born August 16, 1920) was the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Gran Rabino) of Colombia. He served as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Colombia from the early 1950s to 1978. Following his tenure, Rabbi Sharbani mov ...
(Early 1950s-1978)
*
Yehuda Benhamu
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1978-1986)
*
Yehuda Ari Azancot
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
Yehoshua Rosenfeld Yehoshua may refer to:
* Joshua or Jehoshua (Hebrew: ), a figure in the Jewish Torah and the central character in the Book of Joshua
* Book of Joshua (Hebrew: '), a book of the Bible
* Yehoshua (surname), a Hebrew surname
* Yehoshua (given name), ...
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...
came to power in the
Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
)
*
Raphael Yair Elnadav
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...
(1956–1959)
*
Shmuel Szteinhendler
Shmuel Szteinhendler, a rabbi in Santiago, Chile, is considered the current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and one of the most notable Rabbis in Latin America.
Szteinhendler was born in Argentina and trained as a Conservative Judaism, Conservative rabbi in B ...
current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and regional director for
Masorti Judaism
Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti Judaism outside North America, is a Jewish religious movement which regards the authority of ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions as coming primarily from its people and community through the generat ...
Kotel Da-Don
Kotel Dadon ( he, כותל דדון; born December 12, 1967) is Croatian rabbi of the Bet Israel community in Zagreb. Da-Don, who was born and educated in Israel, settled in Zagreb in 1998. He was the chief rabbi of Croatia from 1998 to 2006.
Ea ...
(1998–2006) from 2006 rabbi of the Bet Israel community
Zagreb
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Arie Zeev Raskin
Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin ( he, אריה זאב רסקין; born 1976) is the Chief Rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years.
Career
Raskin's brothers are also serving as rabbis in Jewish communities, with Shlomo Raskin in Fra ...
(2005–)
Czech Republic
*
Karol Sidon Karol may refer to:
Places
* Karol, Gujarat, a village on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, west India
* Karol State, a former Rajput petty princely state with seat in the above town
Film/TV
*'' Karol: A Man Who Became Pope'', a 2005 miniseries
*' ...
Denmark
*
Abraham Salomon
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(1687–1700)
* (1700–1728)
*
Marcus David Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to:
* Marcus (name), a masculine given name
* Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name
Places
* Marcus, a Asteroid belt, main belt asteroid, also known as List of minor planets: 369001–370000#088, ( ...
(1729–1739)
*
Hirsch Samuel Levy
Hirsch may refer to:
Places
* Hirsch, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Hirsch Observatory, in Troy, New York, U.S.
People
* Afua Hirsch (born 1981), Norwegian-born British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister
* Alex Hirsch (born 1985), American an ...
(1741–1775)
* (1778–1793)
*
Abraham Gedalia
Abraham Gedalia (1752–1827; he, אברהם גדליה) was the Chief Rabbi of Denmark in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Biography
Gedalia was born in Poland, where his father, was a rabbi. Gedalia followed in his father's footsteps, b ...
(1793–1827)
*
Abraham Wolff
Abraham Alexander Wolff ( he, אברהם אלכסנדר וולף; 29 April 1801 – 3 December 1891) was the chief rabbi of Denmark and translator of the Torah into Danish.
Wolff was born in Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, to the merchant Alexander ...
(1828–1891)
*
David Simonsen
David Jacob Simonsen ( he, דוד יעקב סימונסן; 17 March 1853 – 15 June 1932) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied Oriental languages at the University of Copenhagen, and received his rabbinical training at the Jewish Theo ...
(1892–1902, 1919–1920)
*
Tobias Lewenstein
Tobias Tuvia Lewenstein ( he, טוביה לבנשטיין; 1863–1952) was Chief Rabbi of Jewish communities in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was born in Paramaribo, Surinam, to Mozes ...
(1903–1910)
*
Max Schornstein
Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Schornstein ( he, מרדכי שורנשטיין; 6 February 1869 – 18 October 1949) was the Chief Rabbi of Denmark, an animal lover and the founder of the Tel Aviv zoo.
Biography
Schornstein was born in 1869 in Tachov, Boh ...
Marcus Melchior
Marcus Melchior (1897 – 1969) was the rabbi of the main synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943, during the Second World War. After escaping with his family and other Danish Jews to Sweden, ...
(1947–1969)
*
Bent Melchior
Bent Melchior (24 June 1929 – 28 July 2021) was a chief rabbi of Denmark.
Life and career
Melchior was born to Danish parents in the German city of Beuthen (now Bytom in Poland), where his father, Marcus Melchior, was rabbi. In 1943, durin ...
(1970–1996)
* (1996–2014)
* (2014–)
Ecuador
*Menachem Mendel Fried (2022- )
Egypt
* Refael Aharon Ben Shimon (1891–1921)
* Masoud Haim Ben Shimon (1921–1925)
*
Chaim Nahum
Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi ( tr, Haim Nahum Efendi; ; ) (1872–1960) was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 20th century.
He served as the Grand Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire.Kuneralp, Sinan. "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular ...
(1925–1960)
*
Haim Moussa Douek
Rabbi Haim Moussa Douek (1905–1974) (Hebrew: חיים דוויך / Arabic:حايم دويك) was the last Chief Rabbi of Egypt.
Early life and early career
Born in Anteb, Turkey, on the border of Syria, he was the eldest child of Rabbi Mous ...
(1960–1972)
Estonia
*
Michael Alony
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
(1995–1996)
*
Shmuel Kot ''Shmuel'' or Schmuel/ Shmeil is the Hebrew equivalent of the name Samuel. It is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer to:
* Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible pro ...
(2000–)
The Far East
*
Aharon Moshe Kiselev
Aharon Moshe Kiselev (1866–1949) was a Russian-born Manchurian rabbi.
Early life
Kiselev was born in Surazh, Chernigov district. In his youth, he excelled in his studies, and was known as the “Vietker Illui”. He later studied in Minsk, and ...
(1937–1949)
Finland
*
Simon Federbusch Simon Federbusch (February 15, 1892 – August 20, 1969) was a Galician-born Jew who served as rabbi in Poland, Finland, and America. Life
Federbusch was born on February 15, 1892 in Narol, eastern Galicia, Austria-Hungary.
Federbusch was ordai ...
Abraham Vita de Cologna
Abraham (Vita) de Cologna (25 September 1755 – 24 March 1832) was an Italian-born orator, politician, and religious leader. He is considered to have been one of the first Chief Rabbis of France, following David Sintzheim and preceding Emmanuel ...
(1808–1826)
*
Emmanuel Deutz
Emmanuel Deutz (1763-1842) was a German-born French rabbi.
Biography
Emmanuel Deutz was born in 1763 in Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a po ...
(1810–1842)
*
Marchand Ennery
Marchand Ennery () was a French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born in Nancy 1792; died in Paris 21 August 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in Mainz. He went to Paris, became teacher in ...
(1846–1852)
*
Salomon Ulmann
Salomon Ulmann (February 25, 1806 at Saverne, Bas-Rhin – May 5, 1865 in Paris), was a French rabbi.
He commenced his rabbinical studies at Strasburg under Moïse Bloch (better known as Rabbi Mosche Utenheim), and was the first pupil enroll ...
(1853–1865)
*
Lazare Isidor
Lazare Isidor (1806–1888) was a French rabbi who served as chief rabbi of the Israelite Central Consistory of France during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Early career
Isidor served as chief rabbi of Paris from 1847 until 1867.
Duri ...
(1866–1888)
*
Zadoc Kahn
Zadoc Kahn (18 February 1839 in Mommenheim, Alsace – 8 December 1905 in Paris) was an Alsatian- French rabbi and chief rabbi of France.
Life
In 1856 he entered the rabbinical school of Metz, finishing his theological studies at the same ...
(1889–1905)
*
Alfred Lévy
Alfred Lévy (14 December 1840 – 23 July 1919) was a French rabbi who became Chief Rabbi of France in the period immediately before and during World War I.
Life
Alfred Lévy was born in Lunéville on 14 December 1840. He studied at the Collège ...
Joseph Sitruk
Joseph Haïm Sitruk ( he, יוסף סיטרוק; 16 October 1944 – 25 September 2016) was a former Chief Rabbi of France, a position he held from June 1987 to 22 June 2008. Born Joseph Sitruk in Tunis, after suffering a stroke in 2001 and r ...
(1987–2008)
*
Gilles Bernheim
Gilles Uriel Bernheim (; born 30 May 1952) is a French-Israeli rabbi who was formerly the Chief Rabbi of France. Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, in 1952, he was elected by the general assembly of the Central Consistory chief rabbi of France o ...
(2009–2013) (elected 22 June 2008, resigned 11 April 2013)
*
Haim Korsia
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...
(2014–)
Galicia*
*
Aryeh Leib Bernstein Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1708 – October 22, 1788) was the first and only Chief Rabbi of Galicia. Life
Bernstein was born in 1708 in Brody, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His father Issacher Ber was a rabbi who served as rabbi of Kehillat ...
(1778–1786)
*
Edgar Gluck
Edgar Chaim Baruch Gluck (Glück) (born 14 June 1936, Hamburg, Germany) is currently the Chief Rabbi of Galicia. Subsumed into countries now part of Central and Eastern Europe, Galicia ceased to exist as a political entity, however Chasidim st ...
Galicia in Central/Eastern Europe, as a political entity, ceased to exist in 1921; the title of its Chief Rabbi had already been abolished 1 November 1786 as part of the
Josephinism
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Lemberg
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was traditionally seen as the Rabbi of Galicia in the era prior to
World War II
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Aaron Lankry
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
Hong Kong
*
Ephraim Mirvis
Rabbi Sir Ephraim Yitzchak Mirvis (born 7 September 1956) is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.
Early life and ...
*
Mordecai Avston
Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed.
Biblical acco ...
*
Netanel Meoded Nethaneel - נתנאל "Gift of/is God", Standard Hebrew Nətanʾel, Tiberian Hebrew Nəṯanʾēl, also Nethanel:
# The son of Zuar, chief of the tribe of Issachar and one of the leaders of the tribes of Israel during the Exodus (Num. 1:8; 2:5, ...
Hungary
:''Note that this list is not in chronological order.''
*
Meir Eisenstadt
Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt ( he, מאיר איזנשטט, ''also'' Meir Ash, c. 1670 in Poznań – 1744 in Eisenstadt) was the author of responsa and other works of rabbinic literature. An authority on Halakha, he was consulted by rabbis from ...
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
Samson Wertheimer (17 January 1658 – 6 August 1724) was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and ''Shtadlan'' to Austrian Emperor Leopold I.
Family
Wertheimer was born in ...
(1693?–1724) (also
Eisenstadt
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In the Habsburg ...
and
Moravia
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The me ...
)
* Issachar Berush Eskeles (1725–1753)
*
Joseph Hirsch Weiss
Joseph Hirsch Weiss ( hu, Weiss (Weisz) József; 1800, Podola ( sk, Podolie), ''Nyitra vármegye'', Hungary – 1881, Erlau (german: Erlau)) was a Hungarian rabbi.
He was a descendant of a long line of rabbis resident in Moravia in the 17th ...
—grandfather of
Stephen Samuel Wise
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* Samuel Kohn
* Simon Hevesi (father of Ferenc Hevesi)
* Ferenc Hevesi
* Moshe Kunitzer a pioneer of the Haskalah movement in Hungary (1828–1837)
* Koppel Reich
* Chaim Yehuda Deutsch
* József Schweitzer
* Robert (Avrohom Yehudoh) Deutsch
Iran
*
Yedidia Shofet
Yedidia Shofet (also spelled ''Shophet'', and often referred to as Hakham Yedidia; November 14, 1908 – June 24, 2005) was the former Chief Rabbi of Iran and the worldwide spiritual leader of Persian Jewry.
Early life
Yedidia Shofet was born ...
(1922–1980)
*
Uriel Davidi
Hakham Uriel Davidi Khansari ( he, אוריאל דוידי lived 1922 - December 24, 2006) was a famous Jewish (Judæo-Khunsari) religious leader and theologian, who was born in Khansar (Iran) and died in the Neve Yaakov section of Jerusalem, Isra ...
(1980–1994)
*
Yosef Hamadani Cohen
Yusef Hamadani Cohen ( ;1916 – 29 March 2014) was the Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran (Iranian Jews) between January 1994 and 2007.
In August 2000, Chief Rabbi Hamadani Cohen met with Iranian Presi ...
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ( he, יצחק אייזיק הלוי הרצוג; 3 December 1888 – 25 July 1959), also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasted from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his deat ...
(1921–1937)
*
Immanuel Jakobovits
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (8 February 192131 October 1999) was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. Prior to this, he had served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and as rabbi of the Fift ...
(1949–1958)
*
Isaac Cohen
Isaac Cohen (26 July 1914 – 30 November 2007) was a Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years.
Education
Born in Llanelli, Wales to immigrants from Lithuania, he won a scholarship in 1928 to Aria College in Portsmouth, a boardi ...
Ephraim Mirvis
Rabbi Sir Ephraim Yitzchak Mirvis (born 7 September 1956) is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.
Early life and ...
(1985–1992)
*
Shimon Yehudah Harris Shimon ( he, שמעון) is the original Hebrew pronunciation of the names Simon (given name), Simon and Simeon. Among individuals, Shimon can refer to:
Given names
* Shimon Agranat (1906-1992), Israeli judge and President of the Israeli Supreme Co ...
(1993–1994)
*
Gavin Broder
Gavin Broder (born 1959) is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from 1996 to October, 2000.
Broder left Dublin in October 2000 to become London chaplain of Hillel, the Jewish student organization. He was inaugurated chief rabbi in 1996, a ...
(1996–2000)
*
Yaakov Pearlman
Yaakov Pearlman was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from September 2001 to June 2008.
A native of Manchester, England, he became one of the youngest rabbis in Britain ever when he was ordained semicha.html" ;"title="arned ''semicha">arned ''semicha''by th ...
(2001–2008)
*
Zalman Lent
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Zalman has done considerable product development since its foun ...
(acting Chief Rabbi, 2008–present)
The appointment of a new Chief Rabbi of Ireland has been put on hold since 2008.
Israel
The position of chief rabbi () of the
Land of Israel
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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
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. The offices continued after statehood was achieved.
Haredi
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Jewish groups (such as
Edah HaChareidis
The Charedi Council of Jerusalem ( he, העדה החרדית, ''haEdah haCharedit'', Ashkenazi pronunciation: ''ha-Aideh Charaidis'' or ''ha-Eido ha-Chareidis''; "Congregation of God-Fearers") is a large Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism, Jewish comm ...
) 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.
Under current Israeli law, the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities (
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
,
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
,
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
, and
Beersheba
Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...
). 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".
Many of Israel's chief rabbis were previously chief rabbis of Israeli cities.
Sephardi
* Moshe Galante (the Younger) (1665–1689)
* Moshe ibn Habib (1689–1696)
* Moshe Hayun
* Abraham ben David Yitzhaki (1715–1722)
* Binyamin Maali
* Elazar ben Yaacob Nahum (1730–1748)
* Nissim Mizrahi (1748–1754)
* Israel Yaacob Algazy (1754–1756)
* Raphael Samuel Meyuchas (1756–1791)
* Haim Raphael Abraham ben Asher (1771–1772)
* Yom Tov Algazy (1772–1802)
* Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1805)
* Yaacob Moshe Ayash al-Maghrebi (1806–1817)
* Jacob Coral (1817–1819)
* Raphael Yosef Hazzan (1819–1822)
* Yom Tov Danon (1822–1824)
* Salomon Moshe Suzin (1824–1836)
* Yonah Moshe Navon (1836–1841)
* Yehudah Raphael Navon (1841–1842)
* Chaim Abraham Gagin (1842–1848)
*
Isaac Kovo Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large History of the Jews of Thessaloniki, Sephardi community of Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Ottoman-era Jerusalem. In 1848 he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as ' ...
Avraham Ashkenazi
Avraham Ashkenazi (1813–1880) was a Sephardi chief rabbi (Rishon LeZion).
Rabbi Ashkenazi was born at Janishar, near Salonica, in 1813.Isidore Singer & Herman Rosenthalpalestine Abraham Ashkenazi ''1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia'', Jewish Enc ...
(1869–1880)
*
Raphael Meir Panigel
Raphael Meir ben Yehuda Panigel (1804–1893) was the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire.
Panigel was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, but his family emigrated to the Land of Israel when he was a child. In 1828 and in 1863, he was a ...
Yitzhak Nissim
Yitzhak Nissim ( he, ; 1896 - August 9, 1981) was a Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1925.
He studied under Rabbi Sadqa Hussein.
In 1955, he became Chief Sephardic Rabbi. As a gesture of go ...
(1955–1973)
*
Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef ( he, , Ovadya Yosef, ; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodo ...
(1973–1983)
*
Mordechai Eliyahu
Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu ( he, מרדכי צמח אליהו, March 3, 1929 – June 7, 2010, on the Hebrew calendar: 21 Adar I, 5689 - 25 Siwan, 5770),
(1983–1993)
*
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron ( he, אליהו בקשי דורון; April 5, 1941 – April 12, 2020) was an Israeli rabbi who served as Rishon LeZion (Chief Rabbi of Israel) from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Bat Ya ...
(1993–2003)
*
Shlomo Amar
Shlomo Moshe Amar ( he, שלמה משה עמאר; ar, سليمان موسى عمار; born April 1, 1948)Gantz, Nesanel. "A Chief Rabbi of the Past and Future". ''Ami'', November 5, 2014, pp. 26-27. is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israe ...
(2003–2013)
*
Yitzhak Yosef
Yitzhak Yosef ( he, יצחק יוסף, born January 16, 1952) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (known as the Rishon LeZion), the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a set of books on ''halakha'' (Jewish law) called Yal ...
(2013–)
Ashkenazi
*
Meir Auerbach Rabbi Meir Auerbach (1815–1878) was president of the Jewish court at Koło, and author of ''Imrei Bina'' (Words of Wisdom). After his immigration to Ottoman Palestine in 1859, he headed the Poland Kollel and became the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi ...
—Rabbi of Jerusalem (1860–1871)
* Samuel Salant (1871–1909)
*
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as Rav Kook, and also known by the acronym HaRaAYaH (), was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one ...
(1921–1935)
*
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ( he, יצחק אייזיק הלוי הרצוג; 3 December 1888 – 25 July 1959), also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasted from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his deat ...
(1936–1959)
*
Isser Yehuda Unterman
Isser Yehuda Unterman ( he, איסר יהודה אונטרמן,
19 April 1886 – 26 January 1976) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1964 until 1972.Shlomo Goren
Shlomo Goren ( he, שלמה גורן; February 3, 1917 – October 29, 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar who was considered a foremost authority on Jewish law (Halakha). Goren founded and serve ...
(1973–1983)
*
Avraham Shapira
Avraham Shapira ( he, אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא; 20 May 1914, Jerusalem – 27 September 2007) was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, and both a ...
(1983–1993)
*
Yisrael Meir Lau
Yisrael Meir Lau ( he, ישראל מאיר לאו; born 1 June 1937) served as the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel, and chairman of Yad Vashem. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003.
Biography
Early life ...
(1993–2003)
*
Yona Metzger
Yona Metzger ( he, יונה מצגר; born 1953) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. In 2013, while chief rabbi, a fraud investigation was opened. Metzger later pleaded guilty to a number of corruption cha ...
(2003–2013)
*
David Lau
David Baruch Lau ( he, דוד לאו; born 13 January 1966) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. He was appointed after achieving a majority of the vote on 24 July 2013. He previously served as the Chief Rabbi of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israe ...
(2013–)
Military Rabbinate
*
Shlomo Goren
Shlomo Goren ( he, שלמה גורן; February 3, 1917 – October 29, 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar who was considered a foremost authority on Jewish law (Halakha). Goren founded and serve ...
(1948–1968)
*
Mordechai Piron
Mordechai Piron ( he, מרדכי פירון; born Egon Pisk; 28 December 1921 – 28 May 2014) was the second chief military rabbi in the history of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after his predecessor, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, created the position ...
(1968–1977)
*
Gad Navon
Gad Navon (1922 – 25 June 2006) was the third Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces.
Biography
Mimun Fahima (later Gad Navon) was born in Morocco. He was ordained there as Rabbi after completing the study of the entire Talmud. H ...
(1977–2000)
*
Israel Weiss
Israel Weiss ( he, ישראל וייס, born 1949) was the Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces serving in the position between 2000 and 2006, with a rank of Brigadier General. His predecessor in that position was Rabbi Gad Navon.
B ...
(2000–2006)
*
Avichai Rontzki
Avichai Rontzki ( he, אביחי רונצקי, October 10, 1951 – April 1, 2018) was an Israeli Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces. He served in the position from 2006 to 2010, with a rank of Brigadier General. His predecessor in ...
(2006–2010)
*
Rafi Peretz
Rafael "Rafi" Peretz (; born 7 January 1956) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician. A former military officer and helicopter pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its d ...
(2010–2016)
*
Eyal Karim
Eyal Moshe Karim ( he, אייל משה קרים) (born February 8, 1957) is the head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces.
Early life and career
Karim grew up in Givatayim, Israel, and studied at Yeshivat Bnei Akiva. In Augus ...
(2016–)
Japan
*
Binyamin Edre'i
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...
(2015–present)
Lebanon
*
Moïse Yedid-Levy
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(1799–1829)
*
Ralph Alfandari
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The most common forms ...
*
Youssef Mann
Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew lang ...
Jacob Bukai
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Moïse Yedid-Levy
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*
Nassim Afandi Danon Nassim ( ar, نسیم) also transliterated as Nacim, Naseem, Nasseem, Nasim, Nesim or Nessim, is a unisex Arabic name. It is mostly used in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures and language groups. It may refer to:
Company
*Nasim Sdn Bhd, a m ...
(1908–1909)
*
Jacob Tarrab
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...
(1910–1921)
*
Salomon Tagger
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People
* Salomon (given name)
* Salomon (surname)
Companies
* Salomon Brothers, a former investment bank, now a part of Citigroup
* Salomon Group, a company manufacturing sporting equipment (which was a part of Adidas-Salom ...
Benzion Lichtman Ben-Zion, also spelled Ben Zion, and Benzion ( he, בן ציון, "Son of Zion") is a Hebrew given name. It may refer to the following people:
Given name
* Ben Zion Abba Shaul (1924–1998), rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva
* Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, ...
Robert Serebrenik
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Serebrenik was born on March 4, 1902, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the son of Peisach Serebrenik and The ...
(1929–1941)
Mexico
* Shlomo Tawil (1998–Present)
Macedonia
* Avi Kozma
Morocco
*
Mardo Chee Bengio
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Chief Rabbi of Tangier.
*
Raphael Ankawa
Raphael Ben Mordechai Ankawa, also spelled Ankavah or Encouau, (1848–1935) was the Chief Rabbi of Morocco and a noted commentator, talmudist, ''posek'', and author.
Biography
Born in Salé, Morocco in 1848, he is known to the Jews of North Afr ...
(1918–1935)
*
Mikail Encaoua
Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), a ...
*
Chalom Messas
Shalom Messas (Hebrew: שלום משאש) was a Sephardic rabbi and scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and later as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
Biography
Messas was born in Meknes, Morocco in 1909. He was the son of Rabbi Mimoun Messa ...
(1961–1978)
*
Aaron Monsonego
Aaron Monsonego ( he, אהרון מונסונגו; 9 February 1929 – 7 August 2018) was a Moroccan rabbi who was the Chief Rabbi of Morocco.
Biography
Monsonego was born in Fez, Morocco, to rabbi Yedidya Monsonego, the chief rabbi of Fez an ...
Isaak Julius Samuel
Isaac was one of the patriarchs of the Abrahamic faiths.
Isaac may also refer to:
* Isaac (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname of Isaac and its variants
Organizations
* International Societ ...
(1930–1942)
*
Michael Melchior
Michael Melchior ( he, מיכאל מלכיאור; born January 31, 1954) is a Jewish leader, Orthodox rabbi, thinker, and activist. He is a former Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a former m ...
(1980–)
Panama
*
Zion Levy
Zion (Sion) Rajamim Levy ( he, ציון רחמים לוי, pronounced ''Ṣiyyon Raḥamim Levi'') (1925–2008) was the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Panama for 57 years. His tenure is thought to be the longest of any religious leader in the regi ...
(1951–2008) Sephardic Chief Rabbi
*
Aaron Laine
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Ancient Greek, Greek (Septuagint): wikt:Ἀαρών, Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high p ...
(1986–) Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
*
David Perets
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
(2016–) Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Peru
*
Abraham Moshe Brener
Abraham Moshe Brener (Rabino Moises Brener) ( he, אברהם משה ברנר; died January 5, 1968) was the former Chief Rabbi (Gran Rabino) of Lima, Peru. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Lima from the mid 1930s to 1962. Following his tenure, Rab ...
(1930-1967)
*
Baruj Epstein
Baruj ( fa, باروج, also Romanized as Bārūj and Barooj; also known as Bare, Bareh, Bārī, Bary, Bereh, and Pareh) is a village in Zolbin Rural District, Yamchi District, Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its ...
(1966-1967)
*
Yaakov Kraus
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(1987-1998)
*
Efraim Zik
Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daughte ...
Salomon Cohen
Salomon may refer to:
People
* Salomon (given name)
* Salomon (surname)
Companies
* Salomon Brothers, a former investment bank, now a part of Citigroup
* Salomon Group, a company manufacturing sporting equipment (which was a part of Adidas-Salom ...
(2016-2019)
*
Poland
*
Jacob Pollak
Rabbi Jacob Pollak (other common spelling Yaakov Pollack), son of Rabbi Joseph, was the founder of the Polish method of halakhic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul.
Biography
He was born about 1460 or 1470 in Poland, and died at Lublin in ...
Dow Ber Percowicz
Dow or DOW may refer to:
Business
* Dow Jones Industrial Average, or simply the Dow, a stock market index
* Dow Inc., an American commodity chemical company
** Dow Chemical Company, a subsidiary, an American multinational chemical corporation
* ...
(1945–1956)
*
Zew Wawa Morejno
Zew Wawa Morejno ( he, הרב זאב מורינו, HaRav Zev Moreino; 28 February 1916 – 19 March 2011) was a Polish and American rabbi. He was the last rabbi of the communist People's Republic of Poland, in 1973 emigrating from Poland to the Un ...
(1956–1957)
*
Dow Ber Percowicz
Dow or DOW may refer to:
Business
* Dow Jones Industrial Average, or simply the Dow, a stock market index
* Dow Inc., an American commodity chemical company
** Dow Chemical Company, a subsidiary, an American multinational chemical corporation
* ...
Zew Wawa Morejno
Zew Wawa Morejno ( he, הרב זאב מורינו, HaRav Zev Moreino; 28 February 1916 – 19 March 2011) was a Polish and American rabbi. He was the last rabbi of the communist People's Republic of Poland, in 1973 emigrating from Poland to the Un ...
(1966–1973)
*
Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz
According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas or Phineas (; , ''Phinees'', ) was a Kohen, priest during the Israelites’ The Exodus, Exodus journey. The grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar, the High Priests (), he distinguished himself as a youth ...
(1988–1999)
*
Michael Schudrich
Michael Joseph Schudrich (born June 15, 1955) is an American rabbi and the current Chief Rabbi of Poland. He is the oldest of four children of Rabbi David Schudrich and Doris Goldfarb Schudrich.
Biography
Born in New York City, Schudrich lived in ...
(2004–)
Poland: Armed Forces
*
Chaim Elizjer Frankl
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...
(?–1933)
* Major
Baruch Steinberg
Baruch or Boruch Steinberg (17 December 1897–after 9 April 1940) was a Polish rabbi and military officer. He was Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during German invasion of Poland and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and was murdered by the Soviet ...
(1933–circa 12 April 1940) murdered by
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
...
in the
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынская резня ''Katynskaya reznya'', "Katyn massacre", or russian: link=no, Катынский расстрел, ''Katynsky rasstrel'', "Katyn execution" was a series of m ...
Romania
*
Yaakov Yitzhak Neimerov
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religi ...
(d. 1940)
*
Alexandru Safran
Alexandru is the Romanian language, Romanian form of the name Alexander. Common diminutives are Alecu, Alex (disambiguation), Alex, and Sandu (disambiguation), Sandu.
Origin
Etymology, Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek language, ...
(1940–1948)
*
Moses Rosen
Moses Rosen (known in Hebrew as David Moshe Rosen, ) (July 23, 1912 – May 6, 1994) was Chief Rabbi (Rav Kolel) of Romanian
Jewry between 1948–1994 and president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania between 1964–1994. He led th ...
(1948–1994)
*
Menachem Hacohen
Menachem Hacohen ( he, מנחם הכהן, born 26 July 1932) is an Israeli rabbi, writer, thinker and former politician. He headed the Religious Worker faction in the Histadrut trade union, was member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1974 ...
Adolf Shayevich
Adolf Solomonovich Shayevich (russian: Адольф Соломонович Шаевич; born 28 October 1937)Berel Lazar
Shlomo Dov Pinchas Lazar (born May 19, 1964), better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He began his service in Russia in 1990. Known for his friendship with Vladimir Putin, since 2000, he has been a Chief Rabbi ...
(2000–)
Military Rabbinate
*
Aharon Gurevich
Colonel Rabbi Aharon Gurevich is the first Chief Rabbi of the Russian Army since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Rabbi Gurevich was appointed by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar
Shlomo Dov Pinchas Lazar (born May 19, 1964), better known as Berel ...
(2007–)
Serbia
*
Isaac Alcalay Isaac Abraham Alcalay (November 11, 1881 – December 29, 1978) was a Bulgarian-born Jew who served as Chief Rabbi of Serbia and Yugoslavia as well as a leading of American Sephardic Jews. Life
Alcalay was born on November 11, 1881 in Sofia, Bulga ...
Isak Asiel Isak may refer to:
* Isak (given name)
* Isak (surname)
See also
*Izak (disambiguation) Izak is a given name.
Izak may also refer to:
* Izak catshark, a type of cat shark
* Izak, a character in Suikoden IV
* Piotr "Izak" Skowyrski, Polish espor ...
Singapore
* Mordechai Abergel
Slovakia
*
Moses Sofer
Moses Schreiber (1762–1839), known to his own community and Jewish posterity in the Hebrew translation as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work ''Chatam Sofer'', ''Chasam Sofer'', or ''Hatam Sofer'' ( trans. ''Seal of the Scribe'', and acron ...
(1806–1839)
*
Samuel Benjamin Sofer
Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (german: link=no, Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber), also known by his main work Ksav Sofer or Ketav Sofer ( trans. ''Writ of the Scribe''), (1815–1871), was one of the leading rabbis of Hungarian Jewry in the se ...
Baruch Myers
Rabbi Baruch Myers (born May 2, 1964 in Orange, New Jersey) is a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He began his service in Bratislava in 1993. He serves as the Chief Rabbi and head Shliach of Slovakia.
Biography
Baruch Myers was born in Orange ...
(1993–present)
South Africa
*
Judah Leo Landau
Judah Leo Landau (23 April 1866 – 26 August 1942) was a Galician-born South African rabbi and writer. A noted scholar, poet, and playwright, he served as the inaugural Chief Rabbi#South Africa, Chief Rabbi of South Africa from 1915 until his dea ...
Bernard M. Casper
Bernard Moses Casper (1916–1988) was a British people, British-Demographics of South Africa, South African rabbi. He was born and raised in London; educated in London and Cambridge; and served as both a Rabbi and educator in Manchester and Lon ...
(1963–1987)
*
Cyril Harris
Cyril Kitchener Harris (19 September 1936 – 13 September 2005) was Chief Rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa from 1987 to 2004.
Harris was born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his tenure as Chief Rabbi, he was noted for ...
(1988–2004)
*
Warren Goldstein
Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein (born 1971) is the Chief Rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa since 2005. Born in Pretoria, he currently lives in Johannesburg. He is the first Chief Rabbi of South Africa who was born in ...
(2005–)
Spain
* Baruj Garzon (1968–1978), the first Chief Rabbi in Spain since the expulsion in 1492
* Yehuda Benasuli (1978–1997)
* Moshe Bendahan (1997–)
Sudan
* Solomon Malka (1906–1949)
* Haim Simoni (1950–1952)
* Massoud El-Baz (1956-1965 by which time the Jewish community in Sudan had declined so dramatically that they could not afford to pay a Rabbi)
Syria
*
Yom Tov Yedid
Yom ( he, יום) is a Biblical Hebrew word which occurs in the Hebrew Bible. The word means day in both Modern and Biblical Hebrew.
Overview
Although ''yom'' is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in differ ...
(1960–1982), moved to the United States in 1982 and died 27 July 2016 in the United States
Thailand
*
Yosef Kantor
Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yadah meaning "praise", "fame" and the word ...
(1992–present)
Transylvania (before 1918)
Note: The chief rabbi of
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
was generally the rabbi of the city of
Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (; german: Karlsburg or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; hu, Gyulafehérvár; la, Apulum) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the Mureș River in the historical ...
.
* 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), last chief rabbi of Transylvania
Tunisia
*
Chaim Madar
Chief Rabbi Chaim Madar () was the chief rabbi of Tunisia's Jewish community, a community dating back to 586 BCE. He was the spiritual leader of this community until his death in Jerusalem on December 3, 2004. His funeral services were held at t ...
Moses Capsali Moses ben Elijah Capsali (Hebrew: משה בן אליהו קפשאלי; –1420-1495) was ''Hakham Bashi'' (Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire.
Biography
Moses ben Elijah Capsali was born in Venetian-held Crete in 1420. When he was a young man, Ca ...
(1454–1497)
*
Elijah Mizrachi
Elijah Mizrachi ( he, אליהו מזרחי) (c. 1455 – 1525 or 1526) was a Talmudist and posek, an authority on Halakha, and a mathematician. He is best known for his ''Sefer ha-Mizrachi'', a supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the To ...
(1497–1526)
*
Mordechai Komitano
Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed.
Biblical acco ...
(1526–1542)
*
Tam ben Yahya
TAM may refer to:
Biology
* Thioacetamide, an organosulfur compound
* Tumor-associated macrophage, a class of immune cells
* Transparent Anatomical Manikin, an educational model
Technology
* Tanque Argentino Mediano, the main battle tank of Arge ...
(1542–1543)
*
Eli Rozanes ha-Levi
Eli most commonly refers to:
* Eli (name), a given name, nickname and surname
* Eli (biblical figure)
Eli or ELI may also refer to:
Film
* ''Eli'' (2015 film), a Tamil film
* ''Eli'' (2019 film), an American horror film
Music
* ''Eli'' (Jan ...
(1543)
*
Eli ben Hayim
Eli most commonly refers to:
* Eli (name), a given name, nickname and surname
* Eli (biblical figure)
Eli or ELI may also refer to:
Film
* ''Eli'' (2015 film), a Tamil film
* ''Eli'' (2019 film), an American horror film
Music
* ''Eli'' (Jan ...
Joseph Mitrani
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
Chaim Kamhi
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...
(1677–1715)
*
Judah Benrey
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1715–1717)
*
Samuel Levi
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...
(1717–1720)
*
Abraham Rozanes
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jew ...
(1720–1745)
*
Solomon Hayim Alfandari
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew: , Modern: , Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yah"), was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and succes ...
(1745–1762)
*
Meir Ishaki
Meir ( he, מֵאִיר) is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer (name), Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer (disambiguation), Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicize ...
(1762–1780)
*
Eli Palombo
Eli most commonly refers to:
* Eli (name), a given name, nickname and surname
* Eli (biblical figure)
Eli or ELI may also refer to:
Film
* Eli (2015 film), ''Eli'' (2015 film), a Tamil film
* Eli (2019 film), ''Eli'' (2019 film), an American hor ...
(1780–1800)
*
Chaim Jacob Benyakar
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, wikt:חיים#Proper noun, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ...
(1800–1835)
*
Abraham Levi Pasha
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant (biblical), special ...
(1835–1839)
*
Samuel Hayim
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bi ...
Yacob Avigdor
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ja ...
Moses Levi
Moses Levi (or Moshe HaLevi Effendi) (1827–1910) was the Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Constantinople and of the Ottoman Empire.Harel, Y. (2005). The Importance of the Archive of the Hakham Bashi in Istanbul for the History of Ottoman Jewry. F ...
(1872–1909)
*
Chaim Nahum
Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi ( tr, Haim Nahum Efendi; ; ) (1872–1960) was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 20th century.
He served as the Grand Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire.Kuneralp, Sinan. "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular ...
Effendi (1909–1920)
*
Shabbetai Levi __NOTOC__
Shabtai (Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, etc.) is a Jewish name common in the Middle Ages for boys born on Shabbat, and may refer to:
People Given name
* Shabtai (given name)
Surname
*Aharon Shabtai (born 1939), poet and tra ...
Haim Bejerano
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...
(1926–1931)
*
Haim Isaac Saki
The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''.
Hebrew etymology
Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...
(1931–1940)
*
Rafael David Saban
Rafael may refer to:
* Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin
* Rafael, California
* Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology
* Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane
Fiction
* ''R ...
Ishak Haleva
Ishak Haleva (born 1940 in Istanbul, Turkey) is the current Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) ( tr, Hahambaşı) of Turkey. Chief Rabbi Haleva was the deputy to David Asseo for seven years and became the new Hakham Bashi after his death in 2002.
(2003–)
Uganda
*
Gershom Sizomu
Gershom Sizomu (born 1972) is a Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. Sizomu is the first native-born black rabbi in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also the first chief ...
() (see:
Abayudaya
The Abayudaya (''Abayudaya'' is Luganda for "People of Judah") are a community in eastern Uganda, near the town of Mbale, who practice Judaism. They are devout in their practice, keeping kashrut and observing Shabbat. There are several differ ...
)
Ukraine
*
Moshe Reuven Azman
Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman (born in Leningrad on 13 March 1966) is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Rabbi of the Brotzky Synagogue in Kyiv.
Rabbi Moshe Azman is an influential figure in Ukraine, an outspoken opponent of the Russian invasion of ...
(2005–present)
United Arab Emirates
*
Levi Duchman
Levi Duchman ( hלוי דוכמן}, aحاخام ليفي دوخمان}) is the first resident chief rabbi of the United Arab Emirates. Since his arrival in the UAE in 2014, he has established Jewish communities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and a numbe ...
(2015-) first resident rabbi to the UAE, appointed
Chabad
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...
Shaliach
In Jewish law, a shaliaḥ ( he, שָלִיחַ, ; pl. , ''sheliḥim'' or ''sheliah'', literally "emissary" or "messenger") is a legal agent. In practice, "the shaliaḥ for a person is as this person himself." Accordingly, a shaliaḥ performs ...
to the UAE in 2020, making him the first Chabad Shaliach in a Gulf country. Directs the Jewish Community Center of the UAE.
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates. He is also the Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University (NYU), the University Chaplain and an Adjunct Assistant Profess ...
is the current Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates.
United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Ashkenazi chief rabbis
*
Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1696–1700)
*
Aaron the Scribe of Dublin
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
Hart Lyon
Rabbi Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin (also known as Hart Lyon and Hirshel Löbel; 1721 – 26 August 1800) was Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and of Berlin, and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim, known as a scholarly Talmudist.
Life
He was born in ...
(1758–1764)
*
David Tevele Schiff
Chief Rabbi David Tevele Schiff () (died December 17, 1791; or, in the Hebrew calendar, 26 Kislev 5551) was the chief rabbi of Great Britain and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death.
Rabbi Schiff was a disciple of ...
(1765–1791)
*
Solomon Hirschell
Rabbi Solomon Hirschell (12 February 1762, London – 31 October 1842, London) was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, 1802–42. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to stop the spread of Reform Judaism in Britain by excommunicating ...
(1802–1842)
*
Nathan Marcus Adler
Nathan Marcus HaKohen Adler (13 January 1803 – 21 January 1890) (Hebrew name: Natan ben Mordechai ha-Kohen) was the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1845 until his death.
Life
A kohen by birth, Adler was born in Hanover, in pre ...
(1845–1891)
*
Hermann Adler
Hermann Adler HaKohen CVO (30 May 1839 – 18 July 1911;
Hebrew נפתלי צבי הירש הכהן אדלר
) was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son (and successor as Chief Rabbi) of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 ' ...
(1891–1911)
*
Joseph Herman Hertz
Joseph Herman Hertz (25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the ...
(1913–1946)
*
Israel Brodie
Sir Israel Brodie (10 May 1895 – 13 February 1979) was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth 1948–1965.
Biography
He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He served as a Rabbi of Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Australi ...
(1948–1965)
*
Immanuel Jakobovits
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (8 February 192131 October 1999) was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. Prior to this, he had served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and as rabbi of the Fift ...
(1966–1991; knighted 1981,
life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. In modern times, life peerages, always created at the rank of baron, are created under the Life Peerages ...
1988)
*
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks ( he, יונתן הנרי זקס, translit=Yona'tan Henry Zaks; 8 March 19487 November 2020) was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United He ...
(1991–2013; knighted 2005, life peer 2009)
*
Ephraim Mirvis
Rabbi Sir Ephraim Yitzchak Mirvis (born 7 September 1956) is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.
Early life and ...
(2013–present)
Spanish and Portuguese community Hahamim/senior rabbis
The Sephardi Jews in the United Kingdom are mainly members of independent synagogues. There is no single rabbi recognised by them as a chief rabbi. The Spanish and Portuguese community, however, consists of several synagogues, charities, a beth din and a kashruth authority. These are under the leadership of an ecclesiastical head. Historically, the individual who fills this role is recognised as a senior rabbi of Anglo Jewry, being the leader of the oldest Jewish community in the country. The Senior Rabbi was traditionally given the title, ''Haham,'' meaning "wise one". Since 1918, however, only Solomon Gaon was given this title. The official title of the holder of this office is now The Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom.
* Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas (1664–1665)
* Yehoshua Da Silva (1670–1679)
*
Jacob Abendana
Jacob Abendana (1630 – 12 September 1685) was ''hakham'' of London from 1680 until his death.
Biography
Jacob was the eldest son of Joseph Abendana and brother to Isaac Abendana. Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Jacob and his br ...
(1681–1684)
*
Solomon Ayllon
Solomon Ayllon (1665 – April 10, 1728) was '' haham'' of the Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam, and a follower of Shabbethai Ẓebi. His name is derived from the town of Ayllon, in what is now the province of Segovia.
Ayl ...
(1689–1700)
*
David Nieto
David Nieto (1654 – 10 January 1728) was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in London, later succeeded in this capacity by his son, Isaac Nieto.
Nieto was born in Venice. He first practised as a physician and officiate ...
(1701–1728)
*
Isaac Nieto Isaac Nieto (1702–1774) ( he, יצחק ניטו) was Haham of the Portuguese congregation Sha'are Hashamayim, Bevis Marks, London, and the son of David Nieto. He was officially appointed as "ḥakham ha-shalem" in 1733, but gave up the post in 17 ...
Raphael Meldola
Raphael Meldola FRS (19 July 1849 – 16 November 1915) was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–15.
Life
Born in Islington, London, he was descended from Raphael Me ...
(1806–1828)
*
Benjamin Artom
Rabbi Benjamin Artom (1835–1879) was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain. He was born in Asti, Piedmont, in the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Biography
He was the first person to hold the post of rabbi of Naples
Naples ...
(1866–1879)
*
Moses Gaster
Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the ''Hakham'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Romania ...
(1887–1918)
*
Shem Tob Gaguine
Shemtob Gaguin(e) (5 September 1884 – 30 July 1953) was a British Sephardic rabbi and scion of a famous Moroccan rabbinical dynasty which emigrated to Palestine from Spain at the time of the Inquisition.
Biography
He was the great-grandso ...
(1920–1953) (officially the "Ecclesiastical Chief of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation," not the Haham)
*
Solomon Gaon
Solomon Gaon (1912–1994) was Sephardic Rabbi and Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the British Commonwealth.
Biography
Solomon Gaon was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia in 1912 and studied at the yeshiva in Sarajevo. Both his parents were ...
(1949–1995)
* Abraham Levy (1995–2012) (officially the Communal Rabbi and Spiritual Head of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, not the ''haham'')
*
Joseph Dweck
Joseph Dweck is the senior rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom.
Biography
Rabbi Dweck is American born, of Syrian-Sephardi origin, and has lived in Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, New York. He studied in Jerusalem at '' ...
(2013–) (elected Senior Rabbi of The S&P Sephardi Community, not the ''haham'')
United States
A chief rabbinate never truly developed within the United States for a number of different reasons. While Jews first settled in the United States in 1654 in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
, 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 effectively led to a form of
congregationalism
Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous". Its first articul ...
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
Jonathan D. Sarna (born 10 January 1955) is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and director othe Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University ...
argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an
Orthodox
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to:
Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
past, effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America.
Nechemia Berman
Rabbi Nechemia Berman was the Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.
Born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he served as Rabbi of Montevideo's Ashkenazi Community (Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay) from 1977 until 1993. This position has always been consi ...
(1970–1993)
* Eliahu Birenbaum (1994–1999)
*
Yosef Bittón
Rabbi Yosef Bittón is an Argentinian-born community rabbi and the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.
Biography
Early life and education
Rabbi Yosef Bittón was born in Argentina to Argentine parents. His paternal grandparents came from Tetouan, ...
Ben-Tzion Spitz
Rabbi Ben-Tzion Spitz (born 1969) was the Chief Rabbi of Uruguay. He was born in Queens, New York, United States. In May 2013 he was appointed as Chief Rabbi of Uruguay, a position he held until October 2016.
Early life and education
Ben-Tzio ...
(2013–2016)
* Max Yojanan Godet (2017–present)
Uzbekistan
*
Baruch Abramchayev
Baruch may refer to:
People
* Baruch (given name), a given name of Hebrew origin
* Belle W. Baruch (1899–1964), American heiress, daughter of Bernard Baruch
* Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), American financier, stock market speculator, statesman ...
Venezuela
Sephardi
*
Isaac Cohen
Isaac Cohen (26 July 1914 – 30 November 2007) was a Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years.
Education
Born in Llanelli, Wales to immigrants from Lithuania, he won a scholarship in 1928 to Aria College in Portsmouth, a boardi ...
Ashkenazi
*
Pynchas Brener
Pynchas Brener (1931) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Caracas, Venezuela, starting in 1967.
Early life
He was born in Tyszowce, Poland and at the age of four emigrated with his family to Peru. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Rabbinic Ordina ...
(1967–)
By city
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ashkenazi
*
Aryeh Leib ben Saul
Aryeh Leib ben Saul Löwenstam ( 1690 in Cracow – 2 April 1755 in Amsterdam) was a Polish rabbi.
Life
Aryeh Leib came of a famous family of rabbis. His father Saul had been rabbi of Cracow from 1700 to 1704; his grandfather was Rabbi Hoeschl ...
1740–1755
*
Saul Lowenstam Saul Lowenstam (1717 – 19 June 1790) was a renowned Dutch rabbi and talmudist.
Saul Lowenstam was born in 1717 in Rzeszów to his parents Aryeh Leib ben Saul (who was the rabbi in Rzeszów at the time) and Miriam the daughter of the Chacham Tzvi ...
*
B.S. Berenstein
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
Abraham S. Onderwijzer
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant (biblical), special ...
*
L.H. Sarlouis
LH or lh may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Laurel and Hardy, a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema
* "Little Hide", 1998 single by Snow Patrol
*Lovehammers, a Chicago-based band
*''Love Hina'', a 1998 ...
*
Justus Tal
Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriv ...
*
Aron Schuster
Aron may refer to:
Characters
*Aron (comics), from the Marvel Universe comic ''Aron! HyperSpace Boy!''
*Aron (Pokémon), in the ''Pokémon'' franchise
* Aron Trask, from John Steinbeck's novel ''East of Eden''
*Áron or Aaron, the brother of Mos ...
*
Meir Just
Meir Just (7 July 1908 – 9 April 2010) was the Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Just served as a spiritual leader for the Dutch Jewish community for more than 45 years, until his death in 2010.
Just was born on 7 July 1908 in Vizhnit ...
1970–1978
*
Aryeh Ralbag
Aryeh ( fa, اريه) is a village in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District (Firuzeh County), Central District of Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 221, in 54 families.
See also
* ...
(2008–2016)
*
Pinchas Toledano Dr Pinchas Toledano (פנחס טולידאנו) is Hakham-Emeritus (Chief Rabbi) of Amsterdam and of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands.
He was also the official ''Av Beit Din'', head of the court, of the Netherlands ''Beit Din''.
...
(2016–current)
Sephardi
*
Menasseh Ben Israel
Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writ ...
*
Pinchas Toledano Dr Pinchas Toledano (פנחס טולידאנו) is Hakham-Emeritus (Chief Rabbi) of Amsterdam and of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands.
He was also the official ''Av Beit Din'', head of the court, of the Netherlands ''Beit Din''.
...
(2012–)
Antwerp, Belgium
*
Chaim Kreiswirth
Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001) was an Orthodox rabbi who served as the longtime Chief Rabbi of Congregation Machzikei Hadass Antwerp, Belgium. He was the founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem, and was a highly ...
(1953–2001)
Baltimore, Maryland – United States
* Abraham N. Schwartz (d. 1937)
* Joseph H. Feldman (retired 1972, d. 1992)
Birobidzhan, Russia
*
Mordechai Scheiner
Mordechai Sheiner ( he, מרדכי שיינר; russian: Мордеха́й Шейнер) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi associated with the Chabad Hasidic movement. Sheiner served as Chief Rabbi of Jewish Autonomous Oblast from 2002 to 2011.
(2002–present)
Budapest, Hungary
*
Yonasan Steif
Rabbi Yonasan Steif ( yi, יונתן שטייף; August 12, 1877 – August 25, 1958) was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Joel Teitelbaum referred to as the ''gadol ha ...
(pre-World War II)
Caracas, Venezuela
Ashkenazi
*
Pynchas Brener
Pynchas Brener (1931) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Caracas, Venezuela, starting in 1967.
Early life
He was born in Tyszowce, Poland and at the age of four emigrated with his family to Peru. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Rabbinic Ordina ...
Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky
Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (February 7, 1845 – October 2, 1913), known by the acronym Ridvaz or Ridbaz, was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic commentator and educator.
Biography
Wilovsky was born in Kobrin, Russia on February 7, 1845.
Wilovsky held ...
known as the ''Ridbaz'', served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations in the city 1903–1905.
Copenhagen, Denmark
*
David Simonsen
David Jacob Simonsen ( he, דוד יעקב סימונסן; 17 March 1853 – 15 June 1932) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied Oriental languages at the University of Copenhagen, and received his rabbinical training at the Jewish Theo ...
(1879–1891)
*
Elias Kalischer
Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy ...
*
Hirsch Goitein
Hirsch may refer to:
Places
* Hirsch, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Hirsch Observatory, in Troy, New York, U.S.
People
* Afua Hirsch (born 1981), Norwegian-born British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister
* Alex Hirsch (born 1985), American anim ...
(–1903)
*
Max Schornstein
Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Schornstein ( he, מרדכי שורנשטיין; 6 February 1869 – 18 October 1949) was the Chief Rabbi of Denmark, an animal lover and the founder of the Tel Aviv zoo.
Biography
Schornstein was born in 1869 in Tachov, Boh ...
(1906–1910)
*
Bent Melchior
Bent Melchior (24 June 1929 – 28 July 2021) was a chief rabbi of Denmark.
Life and career
Melchior was born to Danish parents in the German city of Beuthen (now Bytom in Poland), where his father, Marcus Melchior, was rabbi. In 1943, durin ...
(1963–1970)
*
Jacob Garfinkel
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...
(1971–1973)
Frankfurt, Germany
* Menachem Halevi Klein, Menachem Klein
* Nathan HaKohen Adler
Gateshead, United Kingdom
*
Shraga Feivel Zimmerman
Shraga Feivel Halevy Zimmerman is the ''av beis din'' of the Federation of Synagogues in London. He accepted the position on the 30th of June 2019, but took office in January 2020. Rabbi Zimmerman succeeded Dayan Lichtenstein as head of the organi ...
The Hague, Netherlands
* Saul Isaac Halevi (1748–1785)
*
Tobias Tal Tobias Tal (June 16, 1847 – October 24, 1898) was a Dutch rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of the Hague. Life
Tal was born on June 16, 1847 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, son of Z. T. Tal.
Tal studied at the rabbinical seminary of Chief Rabbi Joseph ...
(1895–1898)
* Dov Yehuda Schochet (1946–1952)
Haifa, Israel
Ashkenazi
*
She'ar Yashuv Cohen
Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen ( he, אליהו יוסף שאר ישוב כהן; November 4, 1927 – September 5, 2016) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel and the President of its rabbinical courts (1975–2011).
Biography
Eliyahu ...
(1927–2016)
Sephardi
*
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron ( he, אליהו בקשי דורון; April 5, 1941 – April 12, 2020) was an Israeli rabbi who served as Rishon LeZion (Chief Rabbi of Israel) from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Bat Ya ...
(1993–2003)
Hannover, Germany
*
Samuel Freund Samuel Freund (born 24 September 1868 in Gliwice, Gleiwitz; died 28 June 1939 in Hannover) was the senior rabbi of Hannover and the ''Landrabbiner'' for the German state of Lower Saxony.
Life
The son of businessman Isidor Freund and his wife Cae ...
(1924-1939)
*
Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky
Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky (August 1, 1915November 28, 1985) was the mashgiach of the yeshiva in Bergen Belsen and the Chief Rabbi of Hanover from 1946 to 1949.
Early life and ancestry
Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky was born in Blaszki, Poland on ...
(1946-1949)
*
Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft
Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (Hebrew: ) was a Rosh Hashochtim of Poland (overseeing the country's kosher slaughterers) before the Holocaust. After the Holocaust he was Chief Rabbi of Hanover and Lower Saxony. Later, after emigrating to the Unit ...
(1949-1952)
Hebron, West Bank
*
Chaim Hezekiah Medini
Chaim Hezekiah Medini (Jerusalem 1834 – Hebron, 1904), also known by the title of his chief halakhic work, ''Sdei Chemed'', was a rabbinical scholar during the nineteenth century.
Biography
His name was originally Hezekiah; Chaim, "life", was a ...
(1891–1904)
*
Dov Lior
Dov Lior ( he, דב ליאור, born 30 October 1933) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi who served as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank until late 2014. He is the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva and hea ...
– present
Helsinki, Finland
*
Naftali Amsterdam
Naftali Amsterdam (1832-1916) was a Lithuanian-born Orthodox rabbi and a leader in the Mussar movement.
Mussar movement role
A student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the Mussar movement's founder, his teacher categorized the roles of three top follo ...
Chaim Hirschensohn
Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn ( he, חיים הירשנזון,
1857 – 1935) was a prolific author, rabbi, thinker, and early proponent of Religious Zionism.
Biography
Chaim Hirschensohn was born on August 31, 1857 in Safed, in the Galilee to R ...
(1904–1935). His post included
Hoboken
Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...
,
Jersey City
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Union Hill and the Environs.
Jerusalem
Sephardi
*
Levi Ibn Habib
Levi ibn Habib (c. 1480 – c. 1545), also known by the acronym HaRaLBaCh, was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1525 until his death.
Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when about seventeen, he was compelled to submit to baptism, but at the first op ...
Haim Vital
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital ( he, רָבִּי חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) and October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a rabbi in Safed and the foremo ...
* Betzalel Ashkenasi
* Gedalia Cordovero
* Isaac Gaon
* Israel Benjamin
* Yaacov Tzemah
* Shemuel Garmison
*
Moshe Galante II
Moshe ben Yonatan Galante (1621 – 4 February 1689 Jerusalem), grandson of Moshe ben Mordechai Galante, Moshe Galante, was a 17th-century rabbi at Jerusalem. He served as the first Chief Rabbinate of Israel#Rishon L.27Tzion 1665-1842, Rishon Le'Z ...
(1665–1689)
* Moshe Ibn Habib (1689–1696)
* Moshe Hayun
* Abraham ben David Yitzchaki (1715–1722)
* Binyamin Maali
* Elazar ben Yaacob Nahum (1730–1748)
* Nissim Mizrahi (1748–1754)
* Israel Yaacob Algazy (1754–1756)
* Raphael Samuel Meyuchas (1756–1791)
* Haim Raphael Abraham ben Asher (1771–1772)
* Yom Tov Algazy (1772–1802)
* Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1805)
* Yaacob Moshe Ayash al-Maghrebi (1806–1817)
* Jacob Coral (1817–1819)
* Raphael Yosef Hazzan (1819–1822)
* Yom Tov Danon (1822–1824)
* Salomon Moshe Suzin (1824–1836)
* Yonah Moshe Navon (1836–1841)
* Yehudah Raphael Navon (1841–1842)
* Haim Abraham Gagin (1842–1848)
*
Isaac Kovo Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large History of the Jews of Thessaloniki, Sephardi community of Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Ottoman-era Jerusalem. In 1848 he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as ' ...
(1848–1854)
* Haim Nissim Abulafia (1854–1861)
* Haim David Hazan (1861–1869)
* Abraham Ashkenasi (1869–1880)
*
Raphael Meir Panigel
Raphael Meir ben Yehuda Panigel (1804–1893) was the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire.
Panigel was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, but his family emigrated to the Land of Israel when he was a child. In 1828 and in 1863, he was a ...
Chalom Messas
Shalom Messas (Hebrew: שלום משאש) was a Sephardic rabbi and scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and later as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
Biography
Messas was born in Meknes, Morocco in 1909. He was the son of Rabbi Mimoun Messa ...
(1978–2003)
*
Shlomo Amar
Shlomo Moshe Amar ( he, שלמה משה עמאר; ar, سليمان موسى عمار; born April 1, 1948)Gantz, Nesanel. "A Chief Rabbi of the Past and Future". ''Ami'', November 5, 2014, pp. 26-27. is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israe ...
(2014–)
Ashkenazi
*
Meir Auerbach Rabbi Meir Auerbach (1815–1878) was president of the Jewish court at Koło, and author of ''Imrei Bina'' (Words of Wisdom). After his immigration to Ottoman Palestine in 1859, he headed the Poland Kollel and became the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi ...
(?–1878)
*
Shmuel Salant
Shmuel Salant ( he, שמואל סלנט; January 2, 1816 – August 16, 1909) served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years. He was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar.
Early life
Shmuel Salant was born in Białystok, ...
(1878–1909)
*
Chaim Berlin
Chaim Berlin (1832, Valozhyn – 1912, Jerusalem) (חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889. He was the eldest son of the Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin.
Biography
Chaim Berlin was the ...
(1909–1912?)
*
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as Rav Kook, and also known by the acronym HaRaAYaH (), was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one ...
(1919–1935)
*
Tzvi Pesach Frank
Tzvi Pesach Frank (20 January 1873 – 10 December 1960) (Hebrew: הרב צבי פסח פרנק) was a renowned halachic scholar and served as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades (1936-1960).
Biography
Frank was born in Kovno, Vilna ...
Aryeh Stern
Aryeh Stern ( he, אריה שטרן, born 27 November 1944) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel, and the chief editor of the Halacha Brura and Berur Halacha Institute.
Biography
Aryeh Ste ...
(2014–)
Edah HaChareidis
:''Note: The
Edah HaChareidis
The Charedi Council of Jerusalem ( he, העדה החרדית, ''haEdah haCharedit'', Ashkenazi pronunciation: ''ha-Aideh Charaidis'' or ''ha-Eido ha-Chareidis''; "Congregation of God-Fearers") is a large Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism, Jewish comm ...
is unaffiliated with the State of Israel. It is a separate, independent religious community with its own Chief Rabbis, who are viewed, in the
Haredi
Haredi Judaism ( he, ', ; also spelled ''Charedi'' in English; plural ''Haredim'' or ''Charedim'') consists of groups within Orthodox Judaism that are characterized by their strict adherence to ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions, in oppos ...
world, as being the Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem.''
*
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, also spelled Zonnenfeld (1 December 1848 – 26 February 1932), was the rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis, a Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine. He was ...
Zelig Reuven Bengis
Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864 – 21 May 1953) was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. He wrote a seven-volume commentary on the Talmud, called "''Leflagos Reuven''".
Youth
He was the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Bengis, in the intro ...
(1948–1953)
*
Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum ( yi, יואל טייטלבוים, translit=Yoyl Teytlboym, ; 13 January 1887 – 19 August 1979) was the founder and first Grand Rebbe of the Satmar dynasty.
A major figure in the post-war renaissance of Hasidism, he espoused a ...
of
Satmar
Satmar (Yiddish: סאַטמאַר, Hebrew: סאטמר) is a Hasidic group founded in 1905 by Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, in the city of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary (now Satu Mare in Romania). The group is an offshoot of the Sighet Hasidic dynast ...
(1953–1979)
*
Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss
Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (15 February 1902 – 14 June 1989), commonly known as the ''Minchas Yitzchak'' after the Responsa he authored, was the rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem] at the time of his death, but his Halakha, halakhic in ...
Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss
Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (26 August 1926 – 29 July 2022) was the Chief Rabbi, or ''Gaavad'' (''Gaon Av Beis Din''), of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. He was appointed to this post in 2004, after having served as a ''dayan'' of the ' ...
(2002–)
Kyiv, Ukraine
*
Jonathan Markovitch
Jonathan Benyamin Markovitch ( uk, Йонатан Бін'ямін Маркович; born 21 October 1967) is the chief Rabbi of Kyiv, official representative of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson and the official Rabbi of the country's ...
(2000 – present)
Krakow, Poland
*
Boaz Pash
Boaz (; Hebrew language#Modern Hebrew, Hebrew: בֹּעַז ''Bōʿaz''; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the Genealogy of Jesus, genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a Boa ...
(2006–2012)
*
Eliezer Gurary
Eliezer (, "Help/Court of El") was the name of at least three different individuals in the Bible.
Eliezer of Damascus
Eliezer of Damascus () was, according to the Targums, the son of Nimrod. Eliezer was head of the patriarch Abraham's househo ...
Tobias Lewenstein
Tobias Tuvia Lewenstein ( he, טוביה לבנשטיין; 1863–1952) was Chief Rabbi of Jewish communities in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was born in Paramaribo, Surinam, to Mozes ...
Avraham David Shaumann
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jew ...
*
Elia Kopciovsky
Elia is a name which may be a variant of the names Elias, Elijah (disambiguation), Elijah, Eli or Eliahu, and may refer to:
People
* Aelia (gens) or Elia, a ''gens'' of Ancient Rome
Mononymic
* Elia or Elijah, a biblical prophet
* Elia, a pen-na ...
(195?–1980)
*
Giuseppe Laras
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph,
from Latin Josephus, Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף.
It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it.
The feminine form of the name ...
(1980–2005)
*
Alfonso Arbib
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...
(2005–)
Modi'in Illit
Modi'in Illit ( he, מוֹדִיעִין עִלִּית; ar, موديعين عيليت, lit. "Upper Modi'in") is a Haredi Israeli settlement and city in the West Bank, situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Modi'in Illit was granted ci ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
*
Meir Kessler
Meir Kessler (born February 17, 1961) is the Chief Rabbi and head of Rabbinical Court of Modi'in Illit.
He was born at Bnei Brak and studied at the Ponevezh yeshiva and afterward at Kol Torah under Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.
After his marria ...
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ashkenazi
*
Zvi Hirsch Cohen Zvi ( he, צְבִי and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. Notable people with this name include:
* Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent
* Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of ...
(1922–1950)
*
Sheea Herschorn
Sheea Halevy Herschorn (; 1893, Krilovitz – 15 May 1969, Montreal) was a Russian-born Canadian Jewish communal leader and ''posek'', who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1951 until 1961.
Biography
Sheea Herschorn was born in Krilovitz, ...
(1951–1961)
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Pinchas Hirschprung
Pinchas Hirschprung (; 13 July 1912, Dukla, Galicia – 25 January 1998, Montreal, Canada) was a Polish-Canadian rabbi, ''posek'', and ''rosh yeshiva'', who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his death.
Biography Early life
Pin ...
(1969–1998)
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Avraham David Niznik
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant (biblical), special ...
(1998–2006)
*
Binyomin Weiss
Yonasan Binyomin (Benjamin) Weiss (; born ) is an American-Canadian rabbi and Dayan (rabbinic judge), dayan, who has served as Chief Rabbi#Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Montreal since 2007. He arrived in Montreal in 2005 to se ...
(2006–Present)
Sephardi
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David Sabbah
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
Moscow, Russia
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Yakov Maze Yakov (alternative spellings: Jakov or Iakov, cyrl, Яков) is a Russian or Hebrew variant of the given names Jacob and James. People also give the nickname Yasha ( cyrl, Яша) or Yashka ( cyrl, Яшка) used for Yakov.
Notable people
People ...
Shmuel Leib Levin ''Shmuel'' or Schmuel/ Shmeil is the Hebrew equivalent of the name Samuel. It is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer to:
* Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible p ...
(1943–1944)
*
Shlomo Shleifer Shloime Mikhelevich (Solomon Mikhailovich) Shleifer was born on December 23, 1889, in Moscow. His father was the rabbi of Alexandria, a town near Kherson. During the First World War, the Shlifer family moved to Moscow, where Rabbi Shleifer worked a ...
(1944–1957)
*
Yehuda Leib Levin
Yehudah Leib ha-Levi Levin (; 1844 – 30 November 1925), also known by the Hebrew abbreviations, acronyms Yehalel and Yehalal, was a Hebrew language, Hebrew socialism, socialist Haskalah, maskilic Hebrew language, Hebrew poetry, poet, writer, a ...
(1957–1971)
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Adolf Shayevich
Adolf Solomonovich Shayevich (russian: Адольф Соломонович Шаевич; born 28 October 1937)Pinchas Goldschmidt
Pinchas Goldschmidt (born 21 July 1963) is a Swiss-born, internationally known rabbi, scholar, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia from 1993 until 2022, serving at the Moscow Choral Synagogue.
He also founded ...
(1987–2022)
Munich, Germany
* Yitshak Ehrenberg (1989–1997)
* Pinchos Biberfeld, moved back to Germany from where he had emigrated to Israel over 50 years earlier. (1980–1999)
* Steven Langnas, first German (descendance) Chief Rabbi and Av Beth Din of Munich (1999–2011)
Netherlands – Inter-Provincial Chief rabbinate
*
Dov Yehuda Schochet DOV or Dov could refer to:
''דב'' or ''דוב'', a Hebrew male given name meaning "bear", from which the Yiddish name "Ber" (בער) was derived ( cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews.
People
* Dov Ber of Mezeritch (170 ...
Binyomin Jacobs
Binyomin Jacobs (Amsterdam, 1949) is a Dutch rabbi who lives in Amersfoort, Netherlands. At the end of 2008 he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the IPOR resort of the Netherlands, this resort includes all the municipalities of the Netherlands, excep ...
(2008–recent)
New York, New York – United States
*
Jacob Joseph
Jacob Joseph ( he, יעקב יוסף 1840 –July 28, 1902) served as chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, a federation of Eastern European Jewish synagogues. Born in Krozhe, a province of Kovn ...
(1840–1902) 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.
* Chaim Jacob Wiedrewitz was the Chassidic chief rabbi of New York and Pennsylvania; he was previously the Chassidic Rav of Moscow and was officially called as "The Moskover Rav", immigrated in 1893 and died in 1911, he's buried in the Chabad society of the Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park NY.
* Jacob S. Kassin was the Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community of New York 1930–1995.
* Leibish Wolowsky was the chief rabbi of the Galician community of NYC 1888–1913, he was previously the rabbi of Sambor, Austria and immigrated to the US in 1888. He died in 1913 and is buried in the Achum Ahuvim of Reizow at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth NY.
* Avrohom Aharon Yudelevitz who was previously the rav of Manchester, England was accepted in 1919 as the chief rabbi of the Jewish Arbitration Court of NYC, he authored many books on Jewish law and
Responsa
''Responsa'' (plural of Latin , 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. In the modern era, the term is used to describe decisions and rulings made by scholars i ...
. He died in 1930 and is buried in family plot at the Bayside cemetery in Ozone Park NY.
Nové Zámky, Slovakia
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Ernest Klein
Ernest David Klein, (July 26, 1899, Szatmárnémeti – February 4, 1983, Ottawa, Canada) was a Hungarian-born Romanian-Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi.
Early life and education
Klein was born to father Yitzchok (Ignac) and mother Sara ...
(1931–1944)
Paris, France
* Michel Seligmann (1809–1829)
*
Marchand Ennery
Marchand Ennery () was a French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born in Nancy 1792; died in Paris 21 August 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in Mainz. He went to Paris, became teacher in ...
(1829–1845)
* Lazard Isidor (1847–1865)
*
Zadoc Kahn
Zadoc Kahn (18 February 1839 in Mommenheim, Alsace – 8 December 1905 in Paris) was an Alsatian- French rabbi and chief rabbi of France.
Life
In 1856 he entered the rabbinical school of Metz, finishing his theological studies at the same ...
Julien Weill
Julien may refer to:
People
* Julien (given name)
* Julien (surname)
Music
* ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier
* ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973
* "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019
Places Un ...
David Messas
Rabbi David Messas (15 July 1934 in Meknes, Morocco – 20 November 2011 Paris) was the son of Rabbi Chalom Messas, the former Chief Rabbi of Morocco who subsequently became the sefardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He married Dolly Berdugo. He w ...
(1994–2011)
*
Michel Gugenheim
Michel Gugenheim is the Chief Rabbi of Paris. He also assumed the position of interim Chief Rabbi of France in 2013 after the resignation of Gilles Bernheim, the previous Chief Rabbi of France and remained in that position until the election of Rab ...
(2012– )
Rome, Italy
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Israel Zolli
Eugenio Maria Zolli (27 September 1881 ‒ 2 March 1956), born Israel Anton Zoller, was an Austrian by birth, and an Italian doctorate professor of philosophy and author. Until his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in February 1945, Zolli w ...
(1940–1945)
*
Elio Toaff
Elio Toaff (30 April 1915 – 19 April 2015) was the Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002. He served as a rabbi in Venice from 1947, and in 1951 became the Chief Rabbi of Rome.
Early life
Toaff was born in Livorno in 1915, the son of the city's ...
(1951–2002)
*
Riccardo Di Segni
Riccardo Di Segni (born November 13, 1949) is the chief rabbi of Rome.
A specialist in diagnostic radiology, he is descended from three generations of rabbis. He completed his rabbinical studies in 1973 and was elected chief rabbi of Rome in 2001 ...
(2002–)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Josiah Pardo
Josiah ben David Pardo (Josiau Pardo, Jesia Hisquiyahu Pardo, he, יאשיהו בן דוד) (1626-1684) was a History of the Jews in the Netherlands, Dutch rabbi and ''hakham'', who served as a Rabbi in Willemstad, Curaçao and in Port Royal, Jam ...
(1648–1669)http://www.archieven.nl/pls/m/zk2.inv?p_q=64729996 See his Haskama – Approbation to Sefer Nachalat Shiva, edition Amsterdam 1667, where he is mentioned as Chief Rabbi of both the Sephardi and Ashkenazi congregations in Rotterdam
* Yosia Pardo (1648–1669). Left in 1669 to Amsterdam.
* Yuda Loeb ben Rabbi Shlomo (1674-abt. 1700). Born in Wilna.
*
Judah Salomon
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1682)
*
Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1700–1708) Born in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
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, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
, left for
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
.
* Solomon Ezekiel (1725–1735)
*
Judah Ezekiel
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
(1738–1755)
*
Abraham Ezekiel
Ezekiel Abraham Ezekiel (1757–1806) was an English engraver.
Ezekiel was born at Exeter in 1757. He engraved portraits by Opie, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others, and was also well known as a miniature painter and a scientific optician.
He di ...
(1755–79)
*
Aryeh Leib Breslau
Aryeh ( fa, اريه) is a village in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District (Firuzeh County), Central District of Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 221, in 54 families.
See also
* ...
(1741–1809)
*
Judah Akiba Eger
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
* Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...
son of Akiba Eger I (invited but refused position)
*
Elijah Casriel
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My El (deity), God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic language, Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) w ...
Joseph Isaacsohn
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
(1850–1871; one of three sons-in-law of
Jacob Ettlinger
Jacob Ettlinger (17 March 1798 – 7 December 1871) ( he, יעקב עטלינגר) was a German rabbi and author, and one of the leaders of Orthodox Judaism. He is sometimes referred to as the ''Aruch la-Ner'' (ערוך לנר), after his best- ...
Simon Hirsch
Simon Hirsch (born 3 April 1992) is a German male volleyball player. He is part of the Germany men's national volleyball team
The Germany men's national volleyball team represents Germany in international volleyball competitions. It is governed ...
(1928–1930)
*
Aaron Davids
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
(1930–1944)
*
Justus Tal
Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriv ...
(1945–1954)
*
Salomon Rodrigues Pereira
Salomon may refer to:
People
* Salomon (given name)
* Salomon (surname)
Companies
* Salomon Brothers, a former investment bank, now a part of Citigroup
* Salomon Group, a company manufacturing sporting equipment (which was a part of Adidas-Salom ...
(1954–1959)
*
Levie Vorst
Rabbi Levie "Lou" Vorst (October 8, 1903 in Amsterdam - July 28, 1987 in Rehovot) was rabbi of Rotterdam from 1946 to 1959 and chief rabbi from 1959 to 1971.
Vorst and his family were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in January 194 ...
(1959–1971)
*
Daniel Kahn
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...
(1972–1975)
*
Albert Hutterer
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Albert C ...
(1975–1977)
*
Dov Salzmann DOV or Dov could refer to:
''דב'' or ''דוב'', a Hebrew male given name meaning "bear", from which the Yiddish name "Ber" (בער) was derived (cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews.
People
* Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1700 ...
(1986–1988)
*
Lody van de Kamp
Carl Hans Lody, alias Charles A. Inglis (20 January 1877 – 6 November 1914; name occasionally given as Karl Hans Lody), was a reserve officer of the Imperial German Navy who spied in the United Kingdom in the first few months of the First Wo ...
*
Raphael Evers
Raphael Evers (born May 8, 1954) is a Dutch-Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He was a rabbi in the Netherlands and Germany. On August 1, 2021, he made aliyah to Israel.Meir Ashkenazi
Meir Ashkenazi was a sixteenth-century Crimean Jew.
An envoy of the Khan of Crimea in the sixteenth century, Ashkenazi was killed by pirates on a voyage from Gava (near Genoa) to Dakhel (probably Dakhel or Dakleh in the western oasis of Upper E ...
(1926–1949)
Sofia, Bulgaria
*
Daniel Zion
Daniel S. Zion (3 August 1883, Salonica – 13 November 1979, Jaffa) was an Orthodox rabbi, Kabbalist* Betsalʼel, N. ''Kabbalah and the Holocaust'' (Orot, 2001) and political activist. Zion moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, as a slaughterer and c ...
(in World War II)
*
Asher Hannanel
Asher ( he, אָשֵׁר ''’Āšēr''), in the Book of Genesis, was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's eighth son) and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher.
Name
The text of the Torah states that the name of ''Asher' ...
Sholom Rivkin
Rabbi Sholom Rivkin (6 June 1926 – 1 October 2011) was an Israeli-born United States, American rabbi. He was the last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis, Missouri, and the last chief rabbi of one of only a few cities in the United States that has ever ha ...
(1983–2011)
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Sephardi
*
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (, born 23 May 1880, died 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953.
Biography
Ben-Zion Meir Ha ...
(1911–1939)
*
Ya'akov Moshe Toledano
Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Toledano ( he, יעקב משה טולדאנו, 18 August 1880 – 15 October 1960) was an Israeli rabbi who served as Minister of Religions for two brief periods between 1958 and 1960. He also served as chief rabbi of Cairo, A ...
(1942–1960)
*
Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef ( he, , Ovadya Yosef, ; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodo ...
(1968–1973)
*
Hayim David HaLevi
Hayim David HaLevi (24 January 1924 – 10 March 1998) (),
was Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Biography
Hayim David HaLevi was born in Jerusalem. He studied under Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva. When R. Uziel was ...
(1973–1998?)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Joseph Weinreb
Joseph (Yosef) Weinreb (1869–1943), also known as the "Galitzianer Rav," was the first chief rabbi of Toronto, Canada.
Biography
Joseph Weinreb was born in Busk, Galicia, son of Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Weinreb and his wife Soore Ratze.
Rabb ...
1900–1942
*
Avraham Aharon Price
Abraham Aharon Price (December 10, 1900 – March 30, 1994) was a renowned Torah scholar, writer, educator, and a community leader in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was one of the city's most influential rabbinic figures.
Early life
Abraham Aharon ...
*
Gedaliah Felder
Gedaliah, Gedalia, Gedallah Hirsch, E. G. and Greenstone, J. H. (1906)Gedallah Jewish Encyclopedia or Gedalya(h) ( or ; he, גְּדַלְיָּה ''Gəḏalyyā'' or ''Gəḏalyyāhū'', meaning " Jah has become Great") was, according to the n ...
Vienna, Austria
* Yitshak Ehrenberg (1983–1989)
*
Akiva Eisenberg
Dr. Akiba Eisenberg (20 September 1908 – 8 April 1983) was a former Chief Rabbi of Vienna.
Biography
Eisenberg was born in Vác, near Budapest. During World War II, he survived by hiding with his brother in the outlying area with non-Jewish f ...
*
Paul Chaim Eisenberg
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
*
Arie Folger
Arie is a masculine given name.
As a Dutch name, Arie (pronounced ) is generally a short form of Adrianus, but sometimes also of Arend or Arent, Arnout or Arnoud, or even Aaron.
As a Hebrew, Jewish, or Israeli name, Arie (pronounced ) is a tra ...
Warsaw, Poland
*
Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz
According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas or Phineas (; , ''Phinees'', ) was a Kohen, priest during the Israelites’ The Exodus, Exodus journey. The grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar, the High Priests (), he distinguished himself as a youth ...
(1988–1999)
*
Baruch Rabinowitz
Baruch may refer to:
People
* Baruch (given name), a given name of Hebrew origin
* Belle W. Baruch (1899–1964), American heiress, daughter of Bernard Baruch
* Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), American financier, stock market speculator, statesman ...
(1999–2000)
*
Michael Schudrich
Michael Joseph Schudrich (born June 15, 1955) is an American rabbi and the current Chief Rabbi of Poland. He is the oldest of four children of Rabbi David Schudrich and Doris Goldfarb Schudrich.
Biography
Born in New York City, Schudrich lived in ...
(2000–)
Würzburg, Germany
*
Abraham Bing
Abraham Bing (1752–1841) was the Oberrabbiner (Chief Rabbi) of Würzburg, and a Rosh yeshiva there.
He trained several prominent German rabbis.
Biography
Bing received his rabbinic training from the talmudist and kabbalist Nathan Adler. (The ...
(1814–1839)
Zagreb, Croatia
*
Hosea Jacobi
Rabbi Dr. Hosea Jacobi (born Hosea Hermann Jacoby; 1841–1925) was Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia for 58 years and the spiritual and religious leader of the Jewish community in Croatia. Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Aleksande ...
Occasionally, the term "Grand Rabbi" is used to note a
Hasidic
Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...
Rebbe
A Rebbe ( yi, רבי, translit=rebe) or Admor ( he, אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religion and Spiritua ...
, particularly used on letterhead when the letterhead is in English.
See also
*
Grand Mufti
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman empire and has been later adopted in a num ...
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Kohanim
Kohen ( he, , ''kōhēn'', , "priest", pl. , ''kōhănīm'', , "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides. Levitical priests or ''kohanim'' are traditionally be ...
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Rishamma
A rishama (rišama; riš-ama) or rishema ( myz, ࡓࡉࡔࡀࡌࡀ, lit='head/leader of the people'; ar, ريشما; fa, ریشا اد اما) is a religious patriarch in Mandaeism. It is the highest rank out of all the Mandaean clergical ranks ...
*
Samaritan High Priest
The Samaritan High Priest is the high priest (''kohen gadol'') of the remaining Samaritan community in the Levant. According to Samaritan tradition, the office has existed continuously since the time of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and has been ...