Chief Rabbi (Hebrew: רב ראשי, romanized: Rav Rashi) is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.[1]
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. North American cities rarely have chief rabbis. One exception however is Montreal, with two—one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi.
Jewish law provides no scriptural or Talmudic 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, high priests, patriarchs, exilarchs and geonim).[2] 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 rab de la corte in the Kingdom of Castile or the arrabi mor in the Kingdom of Portugal, likely influenced by the expectations of their Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican governments and neighbors.[3] Similarly, in the 19th century there was a Crown rabbi of the Russian Empire.[4]
The position of chief rabbi (Hebrew: רַב רָאשִׁי) of the Land of Israel has existed for hundreds of years. During the Mandatory Period, the British recognized the chief rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem. The offices continued after statehood was achieved. Haredi Jewish groups (such as Edah HaChareidis) do not recognize the authority of the Chief Rabbinate. They usually have their own rabbis who do not have any connection to the state rabbinate.
Under current Israeli law, the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheba). 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.
Levi Duchman (2015-present[update]) first resident rabbi to the UAE, appointed ChabadShaliach 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 is the current Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates.
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.
Abraham Levy (1995–2012) (officially the Communal Rabbi and Spiritual Head of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, not the haham)
Joseph Dweck (2013–) (elected Senior Rabbi of The S&P Sephardi Community, not the haham)[40]
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, 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 amongst American Jews. This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American Judaism, and in fact, some chief rabbis developed in some American cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an Orthodox past, effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America.[41]
Note: The Edah HaChareidis 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 world, as being the Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem.
Jacob Joseph (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.[citation needed]
Chaim Jacob Wiedrewitz was the Chassidic chief rabbi of New York and Pennsylvania;[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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. He died in 1930 and is buried in family plot at the Bayside cemetery in Ozone Park NY.[citation needed]
Josiah Pardo (1648–1669)[53] 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.[53]
Yuda Loeb ben Rabbi Shlomo (1674-abt. 1700). Born in Wilna.[53]
Occasionally, the term "Grand Rabbi" is used to note a HasidicRebbe, particularly used on letterhead when the letterhead is in English.[citation needed]
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^ abcdefghJacobs, Joseph; Slijper, E. "Netherlands". The Jewish Encyclopedia. The names of the chief rabbis of Rotterdam are: Judah Salomon (1682); Solomon Ezekiel (1725–35; his salary was 305 gulden); Judah Ezekiel, son of the preceding (1738–55); Abraham Judah Ezekiel, son of the preceding (1755–79); Judah Akiba Eger (1779; left in 1781); Levie Hyman Breslau, author of "Pene Aryeh" (1781–1807); Elijah Casriel, from Leeuwarden (1815–33); E.J. Löwenstamm, grandson of L.H. Breslau (1834–45); Joseph Isaacson (1850–71; removed to Filehne as a result of dissensions in the community); B. Ritter (since 1884).
^Landman, Isaac (1941). The Universal Jewish encyclopedia. Vol. 5. ... and the chief rabbi of Rotterdam, Aryeh Leib Breslau (1781–1809)
^Michman, Jozeph; Beem, Hartog; Michman, Dan (1999). Geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Nederland [History of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]. p. 522. In 1885 werd rabbijn dr Bernard Löbel Ritter tot rabbijn van Rotterdam benoemd.
^ abcMichman, Jozeph; Beem, Hartog; Michman, Dan (1999). Geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenschap in Nederland [History of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands]. p. 526. Na het ontslag van Ritter in 1928 werd het twee jaar lang waargenomen door de opperrabbijn van Zwolle, Simon JS Hirsch. In 1930 vond de joodse gemeente opperrabbijn Aaron Jissachar (ABN) Davids (1895–1944) van Friesland bereid naar Rotterdam te komen. Hij werd nog datzelfde jaar benoemd.
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Chief rabbinate redirects here See also Chief Rabbinate of Israel Chief Rabbi Hebrew רב ראשי romanized Rav Rashi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country s Jewish community or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities Since 1911 through a capitulation by Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel Israel has had two chief rabbis one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi 1 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 North American cities rarely have chief rabbis One exception however is Montreal with two one for the Ashkenazi community the other for the Sephardi Jewish law provides no scriptural or Talmudic 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 high priests patriarchs exilarchs and geonim 2 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 rab de la corte in the Kingdom of Castile or the arrabi mor in the Kingdom of Portugal likely influenced by the expectations of their Catholic Eastern Orthodox and Anglican governments and neighbors 3 Similarly in the 19th century there was a Crown rabbi of the Russian Empire 4 Contents 1 By country region 1 1 Albania 1 2 Argentina 1 2 1 Sephardi Syrian 1 2 2 Sephardi 1 2 3 Ashkenazi 1 3 Austria 1 4 Belgium 1 5 Bulgaria 1 6 Colombia 1 6 1 Ashkenazi 1 6 2 Sephardi 1 6 3 Chabad 1 7 Cuba 1 8 Croatia 1 9 Cyprus 1 10 Czech Republic 1 11 Denmark 1 12 Ecuador 1 13 Egypt 1 14 Estonia 1 15 The Far East 1 16 Finland 1 16 1 Chabad Lubavitch Chief Rabbi of Finland 1 17 France 1 18 Galicia 1 19 Greece 1 20 Guatemala 1 21 Honduras 1 22 Hong Kong 1 23 Hungary 1 24 Iran 1 25 Ireland 1 26 Israel 1 26 1 Sephardi 1 26 2 Ashkenazi 1 26 3 Military Rabbinate 1 27 Japan 1 28 Latvia 1 29 Lebanon 1 30 Lithuania 1 31 Luxembourg 1 32 Mexico 1 33 North Macedonia 1 34 Morocco 1 35 Nepal 1 36 Norway 1 37 Panama 1 38 Peru 1 39 Poland 1 39 1 Poland Armed Forces 1 40 Romania 1 41 Russia 1 41 1 Military Rabbinate 1 42 Serbia 1 43 Singapore 1 44 Slovakia 1 45 South Africa 1 46 Spain 1 47 Sudan 1 48 Syria 1 49 Thailand 1 50 Transylvania before 1918 1 51 Tunisia 1 52 Turkey 1 52 1 Chabad 1 53 Uganda 1 54 Ukraine 1 55 United Arab Emirates 1 56 United Kingdom and Commonwealth 1 56 1 Presbyter Judaeorum England 1 56 2 Ashkenazi chief rabbis 1 56 3 Spanish and Portuguese community Hahamim senior rabbis 1 57 United States 1 58 Uruguay 1 59 Uzbekistan 1 60 Venezuela 1 60 1 Sephardi 1 60 2 Ashkenazi 2 By city 2 1 Amsterdam Netherlands 2 1 1 Ashkenazi 2 1 2 Sephardi 2 2 Antwerp Belgium 2 3 Baltimore Maryland United States 2 4 Birobidzhan Russia 2 5 Budapest Hungary 2 6 Caracas Venezuela 2 6 1 Ashkenazi 2 6 2 Sephardi 2 7 Chicago Illinois United States 2 8 Copenhagen Denmark 2 9 Frankfurt Germany 2 10 Gateshead United Kingdom 2 11 The Hague Netherlands 2 12 Haifa Israel 2 12 1 Ashkenazi 2 12 2 Sephardi 2 13 Hannover Germany 2 14 Hebron West Bank 2 15 Helsinki Finland 2 16 Hoboken New Jersey United States 2 17 Jerusalem 2 17 1 Sephardi 2 17 2 Ashkenazi 2 17 3 Edah HaChareidis 2 18 Kyiv Ukraine 2 19 Krakow Poland 2 20 Leiden Netherlands 2 21 Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands 2 22 Milan Italy 2 23 Modi in Illit Israel 2 24 Montreal Quebec Canada 2 24 1 Ashkenazi 2 24 2 Sephardi 2 25 Moscow Russia 2 26 Munich Germany 2 27 Netherlands Inter Provincial Chief rabbinate 2 28 New York New York United States 2 29 Nove Zamky Slovakia 2 30 Paris France 2 31 Rome Italy 2 32 Rotterdam Netherlands 2 33 Shanghai China 2 34 Sofia Bulgaria 2 35 St Louis Missouri United States 2 36 Tel Aviv Yafo Israel 2 36 1 Sephardi 2 37 Toronto Ontario Canada 2 38 Vienna Austria 2 39 Warsaw Poland 2 40 Wurzburg Germany 2 41 Zagreb Croatia 3 Grand Rabbi 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBy country region EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2008 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Chief Rabbi news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message Albania Edit Joel Kaplan 2010 present 5 Argentina Edit Sephardi Syrian Edit Salomon Benhamu Yosef Chehebar 6 Sephardi Edit Isaac Sacca 1997 present Ashkenazi Edit Gabriel Davidovich 2013 present Austria Edit Jitzchok ben Mosche von Wien Or Sorua ca 1200 1270 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller Tosfos Jomtov 1578 1654 Scheftel Horowitz 1561 1619 Gerschon Uliph Aschkenasi ca 1612 1693 Samson Wertheimer 1658 1724 Mosche Chanoch Berliner 1727 1793 Isaak Noah Mannheimer 1824 1865 Lazar Horowitz 1828 1868 chief rabbi of Vienna Adolf Jellinek 1865 1893 Moritz Gudemann 1894 1918 Zwi Perez Chajes 1918 1927 David Feuchtwang 1933 1936 Israel Taglicht 1936 provisional chief rabbi Insp I Ohler 1946 preacher at the Stadttempel Akiva Eisenberg 1948 1983 Paul Chaim Eisenberg 1983 2016 Arie Folger July 2016 Belgium Edit Eliakim Carmoly 1832 1839 Henri Loeb Aristide Astrue Elie Aristide Astruc 1866 1879 Abraham Dreyfus Armand BlochBulgaria Edit Gabriel Almosnino 1880 1885 Presiado Bakish 1885 1889 Shimon Dankowitz 1889 1891 Moshe Tadjer 1891 1893 Moritz Grunwald 1893 1895 Presiado Bakish 1895 1898 Moshe Tadjer 1898 1900 Mordecai Ehrenpreis 1900 1914 M Hezkeya Shabetay Davidov 1914 1918 David Pifano 1920 1925 No Chief Rabbi 1925 1945 Asher Hannanel 1945 1949 7 Behor Kahlon 1990 2012 Aharon Zerbib 2012 2015 Yoel Yifrach 2015 Present Colombia Edit Ashkenazi Edit Eliezer Paltiel Roitblatt 1946 1957 Chaim Menachem Bentzion Blumenkrantz Early 1950s 8 Alfredo Goldschmidt 1974 Present 9 appointed 1991 10 Sephardi Edit Miguel Attias 1948 Early 1950 David Sharbani Early 1950s 1978 Yehuda Benhamu 1978 1986 11 Yehuda Ari Azancot 1986 2000 Shlomo Meir Elharar 2000 2010 Avi Amsalem 2010 Dec 2020 Chabad Edit Yehoshua Rosenfeld 1980 Present citation needed Cuba Edit Meyer Rosenbaum Son of Isamar of Nadvorna Elected 1948 left Cuba in 1956 a little more than two years before Fidel Castro came to power in the Revolution Raphael Yair Elnadav 1956 1959 Shmuel Szteinhendler current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and regional director for Masorti Judaism in Latin America 12 13 14 Croatia Edit Miroslav Salom Freiberger 1941 1943 Kotel Da Don 1998 2006 from 2006 rabbi of the Bet Israel community Zagreb Luciano Mose Prelevic 2006 Cyprus Edit Arie Zeev Raskin 2005 present update 15 Czech Republic Edit Karol Sidon 16 Denmark Edit Abraham Salomon 1687 1700 Israel Ber da 1700 1728 Marcus David 1729 1739 Hirsch Samuel Levy 1741 1775 Gedalia Levin da 1778 1793 Abraham Gedalia 1793 1827 Abraham Wolff 1828 1891 David Simonsen 1892 1902 1919 1920 Tobias Lewenstein 1903 1910 Max Schornstein 1910 1919 Max Moses Friediger 1920 1947 Marcus Melchior 1947 1969 Bent Melchior 1970 1996 Bent Lexner da 1996 2014 17 Jair Melchior da 2014 present update Ecuador Edit Menachem Mendel Fried 2022 Egypt Edit Moses Israel 1802 Refael Aharon Ben Shimon 1891 1921 Masoud Haim Ben Shimon 1921 1925 Chaim Nahum 1925 1960 Haim Moussa Douek 1960 1972 Estonia Edit Michael Alony 1995 1996 Shmuel Kot 2000 present update The Far East Edit Aharon Moshe Kiselev 1937 1949 Finland Edit Simon Federbusch 1931 1940 Elieser Berlinger nl 1946 1951 Mika Weiss 1957 1961 Shmuel Beeri 1961 1963 Mordechai Lanxner 1973 1982 Ove Schwartz 1982 1987 Lazar Kleinman 1992 Michael Aloni 1995 1996 Moshe Edelmann 1999 2012 Simon Livson fi 2012 18 Chabad Lubavitch Chief Rabbi of Finland Edit Benyamin Wolff 2003 18 France Edit David Sintzheim 1808 1812 Abraham Vita de Cologna 1808 1826 Emmanuel Deutz 1810 1842 Marchand Ennery 1846 1852 Salomon Ulmann 1853 1865 Lazare Isidor 1866 1888 Zadoc Kahn 1889 1905 Alfred Levy 1907 1919 Israel Levi 1920 1939 Isaie Schwartz 1939 1952 Jacob Kaplan 1955 1980 Rene Samuel Sirat 1981 1987 Joseph Sitruk 1987 2008 Gilles Bernheim 2009 2013 elected 22 June 2008 resigned 11 April 2013 Haim Korsia 2014 Galicia Edit Aryeh Leib Bernstein 1778 1786 Edgar GluckGalicia 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 Reforms 19 20 Due to its being a center for Jewish scholarship the Rabbi of Lemberg was traditionally seen as the Rabbi of Galicia in the era prior to World War II 21 Greece Edit Elias Barzilai Gabriel NegrinGuatemala Edit Meyer Rosenbaum Son of Isamar of Nadvorna Later Chief Rabbi of Cuba Honduras Edit Aaron Lankry 22 Hong Kong Edit Ephraim Mirvis Mordecai Avston Netanel MeodedHungary Edit Note that this list is not in chronological order Meir Eisenstadt known as the Panim Me iros 1708 rabbi of Eisenstadt and author of Panim Me irot Alexander ben Menahem Phinehas Auerbach Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig Hirsch Semnitz Simon Jolles 1717 Samson Wertheimer 1693 1724 also Eisenstadt and Moravia Issachar Berush Eskeles 1725 1753 23 Joseph Hirsch Weiss grandfather of Stephen Samuel Wise 24 25 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 Jozsef Schweitzer Robert Avrohom Yehudoh DeutschIran Edit Main article List of Chief Rabbis of Iran Yedidia Shofet 1922 1980 Uriel Davidi 1980 1994 Yosef Hamadani Cohen 1994 2007 Mashallah Golestani Nejad 2007 present Yehuda Gerami 2011 present Ireland Edit Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog 1921 1937 Immanuel Jakobovits 1949 1958 Isaac Cohen 1959 1979 David Rosen 1979 1984 Ephraim Mirvis 1985 1992 Shimon Yehudah Harris 1993 1994 Gavin Broder 1996 2000 Yaakov Pearlman 2001 2008 Zalman Lent acting Chief Rabbi 2008 present citation needed The appointment of a new Chief Rabbi of Ireland has been put on hold since 2008 26 Israel Edit Main article Chief Rabbinate of Israel The position of chief rabbi Hebrew ר ב ר אש י of the Land of Israel has existed for hundreds of years During the Mandatory Period the British recognized the chief rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem The offices continued after statehood was achieved Haredi Jewish groups such as Edah HaChareidis do not recognize the authority of the Chief Rabbinate They usually have their own rabbis who do not have any connection to the state rabbinate Under current Israeli law the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities Jerusalem Tel Aviv Haifa and Beersheba 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 Edit 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 1848 1854 Haim Nissim Abulafia 1854 1861 Haim David Hazan 1861 1869 Avraham Ashkenazi 1869 1880 Raphael Meir Panigel 1880 1892 Yaacob Shaul Elyashar 1893 1906 Yaacob Meir 1906 Eliyah Moshe Panigel 1907 1909 Nahman Batito 1909 1911 Moshe Franco 1911 1915 Haim Moshe Elyashar 1914 1915 Nissim Yehudah Danon 1915 1921 Yaacob Meir 1921 1939 Benzion Uziel 1939 1954 Yitzhak Nissim 1955 1973 Ovadia Yosef 1973 1983 Mordechai Eliyahu 1983 1993 Eliyahu Bakshi Doron 1993 2003 Shlomo Amar 2003 2013 Yitzhak Yosef 2013 present update Ashkenazi Edit Meir Auerbach Rabbi of Jerusalem 1860 1871 27 Samuel Salant 1871 1909 28 Abraham Isaac Kook 1921 1935 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog 1936 1959 Isser Yehuda Unterman 1964 1973 Shlomo Goren 1973 1983 Avraham Shapira 1983 1993 Yisrael Meir Lau 1993 2003 Yona Metzger 2003 2013 David Lau 2013 present update Military Rabbinate Edit Shlomo Goren 1948 1968 Mordechai Piron 1968 1977 Gad Navon 1977 2000 Israel Weiss 2000 2006 Avichai Rontzki 2006 2010 Rafi Peretz 2010 2016 Eyal Karim 2016 Japan Edit Binyamin Edre i 2015 present 29 Latvia Edit Mordechai NurockLebanon Edit Moise Yedid Levy 1799 1829 Ralph Alfandari Youssef Mann 1849 Aharoun Yedid Levy Zaki Cohen 1875 Menache Ezra Sutton Jacob Bukai Haim Dana Moise Yedid Levy Nassim Afandi Danon 1908 1909 Jacob Tarrab 1910 1921 Salomon Tagger 1921 1923 Shabtai Bahbout 1924 1950 Benzion Lichtman 1932 1959 Shahud Chreim 1960 1978 Lithuania Edit Avraham Duber Kahana ShapiroLuxembourg Edit Samuel Hirsch 1843 1866 Robert Serebrenik 1929 1941 Mexico Edit Shlomo Tawil 1998 Present Uziel Milevsky 1981 1985 North Macedonia Edit Avi KozmaMorocco Edit Mardo Chee Bengio 30 Chief Rabbi of Tangier Raphael Ankawa 1918 1935 Mikail Encaoua Chalom Messas 1961 1978 Aaron Monsonego 1994 2018 Yoshiyahu Pinto 31 2019 present Nepal Edit Chezki Lifshitz 2000 present citation needed Norway Edit Isaak Julius Samuel 1930 1942 Michael Melchior 1980 present update 32 Panama Edit Zion Levy 1951 2008 Sephardic Chief Rabbi Aaron Laine 1986 Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Perets 2016 Sephardic Chief RabbiPeru Edit 33 Abraham Moshe Brener 1930 1967 Baruj Epstein 1966 1967 Yaakov Kraus 1987 1998 Efraim Zik 1999 2009 Itay Meushar 2009 2016 Salomon Cohen 2016 2019 Poland Edit See also List of Polish Rabbis Jacob Pollak appointed 1503 34 Moses Fishel 1541 1542 Dow Ber Percowicz 1945 1956 Zew Wawa Morejno 1956 1957 Dow Ber Percowicz 1957 1961 Uszer Zibes 1961 1966 Zew Wawa Morejno 1966 1973 Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz 1988 1999 Michael Schudrich 2004 present update Poland Armed Forces Edit Chaim Elizjer Frankl 1933 Major Baruch Steinberg 1933 circa 12 April 1940 murdered by NKVD in the Katyn massacreRomania Edit Yaakov Yitzhak Neimerov d 1940 Alexandru Safran 1940 1948 Moses Rosen 1948 1994 Menachem Hacohen 1997 2012 Rafael Shaffer 2012 present Russia Edit Main article Chief Rabbi of Russia Adolf Shayevich 1983 officially since 1993 present update Berel Lazar 2000 present update Military Rabbinate Edit Aharon Gurevich 2007 present update Serbia Edit Isaac Alcalay also Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia from 1923 to 1941 Isak AsielSingapore Edit Mordechai Abergel 35 Slovakia Edit Moses Sofer 1806 1839 Samuel Benjamin Sofer 1839 1871 Simcha Bunim Sofer 1871 1907 Akiva Sofer 1907 1938 Izidor Katz 1950 1968 Baruch Myers 1993 present 36 South Africa Edit Judah Leo Landau 1915 1942 Louis Rabinowitz 1945 1961 Bernard M Casper 1963 1987 Cyril Harris 1988 2004 Warren Goldstein 2005 present update Spain Edit Baruj Garzon 1968 1978 the first Chief Rabbi in Spain since the expulsion in 1492 Yehuda Benasuli 1978 1997 Moshe Bendahan 1997 present update Sudan Edit 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 37 Syria Edit Yom Tov Yedid 1960 1982 moved to the United States in 1982 and died 27 July 2016 in the United StatesThailand Edit Yosef Kantor 1992 present Transylvania before 1918 Edit Note The chief rabbi of Transylvania was generally the rabbi of the city of Alba Iulia 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 TransylvaniaTunisia Edit Chaim Madar 1984 2004 Turkey Edit See also Hakham Bashi Eli Capsali 1452 1454 Moses Capsali 1454 1497 Elijah Mizrachi 1497 1526 Mordechai Komitano 1526 1542 Tam ben Yahya 1542 1543 Eli Rozanes ha Levi 1543 Eli ben Hayim 1543 1602 Yehiel Bashan 1602 1625 Joseph Mitrani 1625 1639 Yomtov Benyaes 1639 1642 Yomtov Hananiah Benyakar 1642 1677 Chaim Kamhi 1677 1715 Judah Benrey 1715 1717 Samuel Levi 1717 1720 Abraham Rozanes 1720 1745 Solomon Hayim Alfandari 1745 1762 Meir Ishaki 1762 1780 Eli Palombo 1780 1800 Chaim Jacob Benyakar 1800 1835 Abraham Levi Pasha 1835 1839 Samuel Hayim 1839 1841 Moiz Fresko 1841 1854 Yacob Avigdor 1854 1870 Yakir Geron 1870 1872 Moses Levi 1872 1909 Chaim Nahum Effendi 1909 1920 Shabbetai Levi 1920 1922 Isaac Ariel 1922 1926 Haim Bejerano 1926 1931 Haim Isaac Saki 1931 1940 Rafael David Saban 1940 1960 David Asseo 1961 2002 Ishak Haleva 2003 present update Chabad Edit Mendy Chitrik 2003 present Uganda Edit Gershom Sizomu present update see Abayudaya Ukraine Edit Azriel Chaikin 2003 2009 United Arab Emirates Edit Levi Duchman 2015 present update first resident rabbi to the UAE appointed Chabad Shaliach 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 is the current Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates United Kingdom and Commonwealth Edit Presbyter Judaeorum England Edit Main article Presbyter Judaeorum Jacob of London appointed 1199 Josce of London 1217 1237 Aaron of York 1237 Elias le Evesque appointed 1237 Hagin fil Mosse appointed 1257 Hagin fil Deulacres appointed 1281 by the favour of Eleanor of Provence 38 Ashkenazi chief rabbis Edit See also List of chief rabbis of the United Hebrew Congregations Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel 1696 1700 39 Aaron the Scribe of Dublin 1700 1704 39 Aaron Hart 1704 1756 39 Hart Lyon 1758 1764 David Tevele Schiff 1765 1791 Solomon Hirschell 1802 1842 Nathan Marcus Adler 1845 1891 Hermann Adler 1891 1911 Joseph Herman Hertz 1913 1946 Israel Brodie 1948 1965 Immanuel Jakobovits 1966 1991 knighted 1981 life peer 1988 Jonathan Sacks 1991 2013 knighted 2005 life peer 2009 Ephraim Mirvis 2013 present knighted 2023 Spanish and Portuguese community Hahamim senior rabbis Edit 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 amp P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas 1664 1665 Yehoshua Da Silva 1670 1679 Jacob Abendana 1681 1684 Solomon Ayllon 1689 1700 David Nieto 1701 1728 Isaac Nieto 1732 1740 Moshe Gomes de Mesquita 1744 1751 Moshe Cohen d Azevedo 1761 1784 Raphael Meldola 1806 1828 Benjamin Artom 1866 1879 Moses Gaster 1887 1918 Shem Tob Gaguine 1920 1953 officially the Ecclesiastical Chief of the Spanish amp Portuguese Jews Congregation not the Haham Solomon Gaon 1949 1995 Abraham Levy 1995 2012 officially the Communal Rabbi and Spiritual Head of the Spanish amp Portuguese Jews Congregation not the haham Joseph Dweck 2013 elected Senior Rabbi of The S amp P Sephardi Community not the haham 40 United States Edit 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 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 amongst American Jews This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American Judaism and in fact some chief rabbis developed in some American cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish communities within the cities for examples see below However Jonathan Sarna argues that those two precedents as well as the desire of many Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an Orthodox past effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America 41 Eliezer SilverUruguay Edit Jaime Spector 1931 1937 Aaron Milevsky 1937 1943 Aaron Laschover 1943 1967 Nechemia Berman 1970 1993 Eliahu Birenbaum 1994 1999 Yosef Bitton 1999 2002 Mordejai Maarabi 2002 2009 Shai Froindlich 2009 2010 Isaac Fadda 2011 2012 Ben Tzion Spitz 2013 2016 Max Yojanan Godet 2017 present Uzbekistan Edit Baruch Abramchayev 42 Venezuela Edit Sephardi Edit Isaac CohenAshkenazi Edit Pynchas Brener 1967 By city EditAmsterdam Netherlands Edit Ashkenazi Edit Aryeh Leib ben Saul 43 1740 1755 Saul Lowenstam 43 B S Berenstein Dr Joseph Hirsch Dunner Abraham S Onderwijzer L H Sarlouis Justus Tal Aron Schuster Meir Just 1970 1978 Aryeh Ralbag 2008 2016 Pinchas Toledano 2016 current Sephardi Edit Menasseh Ben Israel Dr Benjamin Israel Ricardo Dr Pinchas Toledano 2012 present update 44 Antwerp Belgium Edit Chaim Kreiswirth 1953 2001 Baltimore Maryland United States Edit Abraham N Schwartz d 1937 Joseph H Feldman retired 1972 d 1992 Birobidzhan Russia Edit Mordechai Scheiner 2002 2020 Efraim Kolpak 2020 present Budapest Hungary Edit Yonasan Steif pre World War II Caracas Venezuela Edit Ashkenazi Edit Pynchas Brener 1967 present Sephardi Edit Isaac Cohen present update Chicago Illinois United States Edit Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky known as the Ridbaz served as chief rabbi of the Russian American congregations in the city 1903 1905 Copenhagen Denmark Edit David Simonsen 1879 1891 Elias Kalischer Hirsch Goitein 1903 Max Schornstein 1906 1910 Bent Melchior 1963 1970 Jacob Garfinkel 1971 1973 17 Frankfurt Germany Edit Menachem Halevi Klein Menachem Klein Nathan HaKohen AdlerGateshead United Kingdom Edit Shraga Feivel ZimmermanThe Hague Netherlands Edit Saul Isaac Halevi 1748 1785 Tobias Tal 1895 1898 Dov Yehuda Schochet 1946 1952 Haifa Israel Edit Ashkenazi Edit She ar Yashuv Cohen 1927 2016 Sephardi Edit Eliyahu Bakshi Doron 1993 2003 Hannover Germany Edit Samuel Freund 1924 1939 Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky 1946 1949 Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft 1949 1952 Hebron West Bank Edit Chaim Hezekiah Medini 1891 1904 Dov Lior presentHelsinki Finland Edit Naftali Amsterdam 1867 1875 Avrohom Schain 1876 1881 Abraham Werner Homa 1881 1891 Shmuel Noson Bukantz 1892 1924 Scholem Triestman 1928 1929 18 Hoboken New Jersey United States Edit Chaim Hirschensohn 1904 1935 His post included Hoboken Jersey City Union Hill and the Environs 45 Jerusalem Edit Sephardi Edit Levi Ibn Habib David Ibn Abi Zimra Moshe Galante I Haim Vital Betzalel Ashkenasi Gedalia Cordovero Isaac Gaon Israel Benjamin Yaacov Tzemah Shemuel Garmison Moshe Galante II 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 1848 1854 Haim Nissim Abulafia 1854 1861 Haim David Hazan 1861 1869 Abraham Ashkenasi 1869 1880 Raphael Meir Panigel 1880 1892 Yaacob Shaul Elyashar 1893 1906 Yaacob Meir 1906 Eliyah Moshe Panigel 1907 1909 Nahman Batito 1909 1911 Moshe Franco 1911 1915 Haim Moshe Elyashar 1914 1915 Nissim Yehudah Danon 1915 1921 Yaacob Meir 1921 1939 Chalom Messas 1978 2003 Shlomo Amar 2014 present update Ashkenazi Edit Meir Auerbach 1878 Shmuel Salant 1878 1909 Chaim Berlin 1909 1912 citation needed Abraham Isaac Kook 1919 1935 Tzvi Pesach Frank 1936 Betzalel Zolty 1977 Yitzhak Kolitz 1983 2002 Aryeh Stern 2014 present update Edah HaChareidis Edit Note The Edah HaChareidis 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 world as being the Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld 1919 1932 Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky 1932 1948 Zelig Reuven Bengis 1948 1953 Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar 1953 1979 Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss 1979 1989 Moshe Aryeh Freund 1989 1996 Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky 1996 2002 Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss 2002 present update Kyiv Ukraine Edit Jonathan Markovitch 2000 present Krakow Poland Edit Boaz Pash 2006 2012 Eliezer Gurary 2014 present Leiden Netherlands Edit Simon de VriesLeeuwarden Friesland Netherlands Edit Joachim Loewenstam fy 1821 1836 Baruch Bendit Dusnus nl 1840 1886 Lion Wagenaar nl 1886 1895 Tobias Lewenstein 1895 1899 Samuel Rudelsheim fy 1900 1918 Bernard Davids nl 1924 1927 Simong Dasberg nl 1929 1932 Abraham Salomon Levisson nl 1935 1945 Milan Italy Edit Avraham David Shaumann Elia Kopciovsky 195 1980 Giuseppe Laras 1980 2005 Alfonso Arbib 2005 present update Modi in Illit Israel Edit Meir KesslerMontreal Quebec Canada Edit Ashkenazi Edit Zvi Hirsch Cohen 1922 1950 Sheea Herschorn 1951 1961 Pinchas Hirschprung 1969 1998 46 Avraham David Niznik 1998 2006 46 47 Binyomin Weiss 2006 Present 48 Sephardi Edit David Sabbah 49 Moscow Russia Edit Yakov Maze prior to 1924 1933 Shmaryahu Yehudah Leib Medalia 1933 1938 Shmuel Leib Medalia 1943 Shmuel Leib Levin 1943 1944 Shlomo Shleifer 1944 1957 Yehuda Leib Levin 1957 1971 Adolf Shayevich 1983 officially since 1993 present update Pinchas Goldschmidt 1987 2022 50 Munich Germany Edit Yitshak Ehrenberg 1989 1997 51 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 Edit Dov Yehuda Schochet 1946 1952 Chief Rabbi of The Hague Elieser Berlinger 1960 1985 Binyomin Jacobs 2008 recent New York New York United States Edit Jacob Joseph 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 citation needed Chaim Jacob Wiedrewitz was the Chassidic chief rabbi of New York and Pennsylvania citation needed 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 citation needed 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 citation needed 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 He died in 1930 and is buried in family plot at the Bayside cemetery in Ozone Park NY citation needed Nove Zamky Slovakia Edit Ernest Klein 1931 1944 citation needed Paris France Edit Michel Seligmann 1809 1829 52 Marchand Ennery 1829 1845 Lazard Isidor 1847 1865 Zadoc Kahn 1866 1889 Jacques Henri Dreyfuss 1891 1933 Julien Weill 1933 1950 Jacob Kaplan 1950 1955 Meir Jais 1956 1980 Alain Goldmann 1980 1994 David Messas 1994 2011 Michel Gugenheim 2012 Rome Italy Edit Israel Zolli 1940 1945 Elio Toaff 1951 2002 Riccardo Di Segni 2002 present update Rotterdam Netherlands Edit Josiah Pardo 1648 1669 53 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 53 Yuda Loeb ben Rabbi Shlomo 1674 abt 1700 Born in Wilna 53 Judah Salomon 1682 54 Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel 1700 1708 55 Born in Hamburg left for Amsterdam 53 Solomon Ezekiel 1725 1735 54 Judah Ezekiel 1738 1755 54 Abraham Ezekiel 1755 79 54 Aryeh Leib Breslau 1741 1809 56 Judah Akiba Eger son of Akiba Eger I invited but refused position 54 Elijah Casriel 1815 1833 54 E J Lowenstamm 1834 1845 54 Joseph Isaacsohn 1850 1871 one of three sons in law of Jacob Ettlinger who were Chief Rabbis in the Netherlands 54 Bernhard Lobel Ritter 1885 1928 57 58 Simon Hirsch 1928 1930 58 Aaron Davids 1930 1944 58 Justus Tal 1945 1954 59 Salomon Rodrigues Pereira 1954 1959 59 Levie Vorst 1959 1971 59 Daniel Kahn 1972 1975 59 Albert Hutterer 1975 1977 59 Dov Salzmann 1986 1988 59 Lody van de Kamp citation needed Raphael Evers citation needed Shanghai China Edit Meir Ashkenazi 1926 1949 Sofia Bulgaria Edit Daniel Zion in World War II Asher Hannanel in World War II St Louis Missouri United States Edit Chaim Fischel Epstein Menachem Zvi Eichenstein 1943 1982 Sholom Rivkin 1983 2011 60 Tel Aviv Yafo Israel Edit Sephardi Edit Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel 1911 1939 Ya akov Moshe Toledano 1942 1960 Ovadia Yosef 1968 1973 Hayim David HaLevi 1973 1998 Toronto Ontario Canada Edit Joseph Weinreb 1900 1942 Avraham Aharon Price Gedaliah FelderVienna Austria Edit Yitshak Ehrenberg 1983 1989 51 Akiva Eisenberg Paul Chaim Eisenberg Arie FolgerWarsaw Poland Edit Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz 1988 1999 Baruch Rabinowitz 1999 2000 Michael Schudrich 2000 present update Wurzburg Germany Edit Abraham Bing 1814 1839 Zagreb Croatia Edit Hosea Jacobi 1880 1925 Miroslav Salom Freiberger 1941 1943 Grand Rabbi EditOccasionally the term Grand Rabbi is used to note a Hasidic Rebbe particularly used on letterhead when the letterhead is in English citation needed See also EditGrand Mufti Kohanim Rishamma Samaritan High PriestReferences Edit Cameron Brown Rabbi Ovadia Yosef And His Culture War in Israel Meria idc ac il Archived from the original on 29 October 2011 Retrieved 9 November 2011 Judaism The Chief Rabbinate The Jewish Virtual Library American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise AICE Retrieved 4 June 2020 Himelstein Shmuel 2011 Chief Rabbinate In Berlin Adele ed The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion 2nd ed Oxford New York Oxford 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Direct na het afleggen van het hoogste rabbinale examen werd hij benoemd tot opperrabijn hetgeen hij bleef aan tot zijn immigratie naar Israel in 1971 Hij werd opgevolgd door Daniel Kahn van 1972 tot 75 en Albert Hutterer van 1975 tot 77 Na diens vertrek heeft Rotterdam het een tijd zonder rabbijn gesteld Van 1986 tot 88 was Dov Salzmann rabbijn Rebbetzin Paula Rivkin remembered as woman of valor St Louis Jewish Light Local News Rebbetzin Paula Rivkin remembered as woman of valor Local News Stljewishlight com 12 January 2011 Retrieved 9 November 2011 External links Edit Look up rabbi or rabbinate in Wiktionary the free dictionary Media related to Chief rabbis at Wikimedia Commons Office of the Chief Rabbi in London England Chief Rabbinate of Israel Archived 8 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chief Rabbi amp oldid 1163041146, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
