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Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel or Ouziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.

Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own chief rabbis; this is especially the case in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 but has also been past practice in major Jewish centres in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 prior to the Holocaust.






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Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel or Ouziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.

Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own chief rabbis; this is especially the case in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 but has also been past practice in major Jewish centres in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 prior to the Holocaust. North American cities have rarely had chief rabbis, although some do have them: Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, in fact, has two — one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi.

The Chief Rabbi's name is often followed by ABD, which stands for Av Beth Din.

Chief rabbis by country/region


Argentina


Ashkenazi
  • Shlomo Ben Hamu


Sephardi
  • Yosef Chehebar


Austria

  • Akiva Eisenberg
  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg


British Empire and Commonwealth

  • Judah Loeb Cohen — (1696-1700)
  • Aaron the Scribe of Dublin — (1700-1704)
  • Aaron Hart
    Aaron Hart

    Rabbi Aaron Hart was the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death.A portrait of Rabbi Hart hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London....
     — (1704-1756)
  • Hart Lyon — (1758-1764)
  • David Tevele Schiff — (1765-1791)
  • Solomon Hirschell
    Solomon Hirschell

    Rabbi Solomon Hirschell 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 its leaders....
     — (1802-1842)
  • Nathan Marcus Adler
    Nathan Marcus Adler

    Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, , was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain 1845?1891, probably the most prominent 19th century rabbi in the English language-speaking world....
     — (1845-1891)
  • Hermann Adler
    Hermann Adler

    Rabbi Dr. Hermann Adler Royal Victorian Order was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance."...
     — (1891-1911)
  • Joseph Herman Hertz
    Joseph H. Hertz

    Early lifeRabbi Dr Joseph Herman Hertz, Doctor of Laws, Order of the Companions of Honour was born in Rebrin, Hungary , and emigrated to New York City in 1884....
     — (1913-1946)
  • Sir Israel Brodie
    Israel Brodie

    Sir Israel Brodie KBE was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations 1948–1965.He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford....
     — (1948-1965)
  • Lord Jakobovits
    Immanuel Jakobovits

    Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits of Regent's Park in Greater London, Order of the British Empire was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1967 to 1991....
     — (1966-1991)
  • Sir Jonathan Sacks
    Jonathan Sacks

    Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations....
     — (1991–)


Chile

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


China

See chief Rabbis of Hong Kong, China
Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
.

Cuba

  • Meir Rosenbaum — (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna
    Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

    Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism. The dynasty derives its name from the town of Nadvirna, known in Ukrainian as Nadvirna....
    , Elected 1948: left Cuba in 1956, a little more than two years before Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
     came to power in the Revolution
    Cuban Revolution

    The Cuban Revolution was a revolution that led to the overthrow of the Dictator government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July movement and other revolutionary organizations....
    )
  • Shmuel Szteinhendler
    Shmuel Szteinhendler

    Shmuel Szteinhendler, a rabbi in Santiago, Chile, is the current Chief Rabbi of Cuba as well as the regional director for Masorti in Latin America. ...
     — the current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and regional director for Masorti
    Masorti

    The Masorti movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and United States. It is part of the Conservative movement....
     in Latin America
    Latin America

    Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
    .


Cyprus

  • Arie Zeev Raskin
    Arie Zeev Raskin

    Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, born in 1976, is the chief rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years. He moved to Cyprus in 2003 with his wife Shaindel and their children in an effort to introduce Jewish life onto the island....
     — (2005-) representing Chabad-Lubavitch
    Chabad-Lubavitch

    Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic Judaism movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn....


Egypt

  • Chaim Nahum
    Chaim Nahum

    Chaim Nahum Effendi was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguistics of the early 1900s. He was born in 1872 in Izmir. He was sent by his parents to a yeshiva in Tiberias, after which he studied at a French lycee for his secondary education and obtained a degree in Islamic law in Istanbul....
     — (1909-1960)
  • — (1960-1972)


Estonia

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


Finland

  • Michael Alony — (1995-1996)


France

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

    Rabbi Joseph Ha?m Sitruk is a former Chief Rabbi of France, a position he held from June 1987 to June 22, 2008. Born Joseph Sitruk in Tunis, after suffering a stroke in 2001 and recovering he added the name "Haim" to his name in line with Jewish tradition....
     — (1987-2008)
  • Gilles Bernheim
    Gilles Bernheim

    Gilles Bernheim is a French Philosophy, rabbi and Chief Rabbi of France-elect. On June 22, 2008, he was elected chief rabbi of France but his seven year mandate begins January 1, 2009....
    - (2009- ) (elected June 22,2008)


Guatemala

  • Meir Rosenbaum — (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna
    Nadvorna

    Nadvorna may refer to:*Nadvirna is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in southwestern Ukraine.*Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism....
    , Later Chief Rabbi of Cuba)


Hungary

Note that this list is out of order.


  • Meir Eisenstadt
    Meir Eisenstadt

    Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt was the author of responsa and other works of rabbinic literature. An authority on Halakha, he was consulted by rabbis from Turkey, Germany and Italy....
     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

    Samson Wertheimer 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, Holy Roman Emperor....
     — (1693?-1724)(also Eisenstadt
    Eisenstadt

    Eisenstadt is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 12,000 .In the Habsburg monarchy, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the House of Esterh?zy Hungarian nobility....
     and Moravia
    Moravia

    Moravia is a Historical regions of Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, one of the former Czech lands. It takes its name from the Morava River, Central Europe which rises in the northwest of the region....
    )
  • Issachar Berush Eskeles — (1725-1753)
  • Joseph Hirsch Weiss
    Joseph Hirsch Weiss

    Joseph Hirsch Weiss was a Kingdom of Hungary rabbi.He was a descendant of a long line of rabbis resident in Moravia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the family name was originally Weissfeld....
     — (Grandfather of Stephen Samuel Wise
    Stephen Samuel Wise

    Stephen Samuel Wise was a Austria-Hungary-born United States of America Reform Judaism rabbi and Zionism leader....
    .)
  • Samuel Kohn
  • Ferenc Hevesi
  • Moshe Kunitzer — (1828-1837), a pioneer of the Haskalah movement in Hungary.
  • Alfrιd Schφner
  • Koppel Reich
  • Chaim Yehuda Deutsch
  • Jσzsef Schweitzer


Iran

  • Yedidiah Shofet
  • Uriel Davidi
  • Yousef Hamadani Cohen
    Yousef Hamadani Cohen

    Yousef Hamadani Cohen is the spiritual leader for the Jewish Community of Iran.In August 2000, Chief Rabbi Hamadani Cohen met with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami for the first time....
     — (?-)


Ireland

  • Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
    Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

    Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Mandate for Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948....
     — (1921-1937)
  • Immanuel Jakobovits
    Immanuel Jakobovits

    Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits of Regent's Park in Greater London, Order of the British Empire was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1967 to 1991....
     — (1949-1958)
  • Isaac Cohen
    Isaac Cohen

    Isaac Cohen, , was a distinguished Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years....
     — (1959-1979)
  • David Rosen
    David Rosen (Rabbi)

    Rabbi David Rosen is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and currently serves as Chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Inter-religious Consultations , the broad based coalition of Jewish organizations and denominations that represents World Jewry in its relations with other world religions....
     — (1979-1985)
  • Gavin Broder
    Gavin Broder

    Gavin Broder is the former chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from 1996- October, 2000. Broder left Dublin in October 2000 to become London chaplain of Hillel, the Jewish student organization....
     — (1996-2000)
  • Yaakov Pearlman
    Yaakov Pearlman

    Yaakov Pearlman is the current Chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from September 2001-June 2008. Pearlman had previously been the Rabbi of Light of Israel Congregation, in Rochester, New York, New York....
     — (2001–2008}})
  • Zalman Lent — (2008–Present}})


Israel

The position of chief rabbi of the Land of Israel has existed for hundreds of years. During the mandatory period, the British recognized the chief Rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem. The offices continued after 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.

Please note that under current Israeli law, the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities (Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
 and Beer Sheba). In other cities there may be one main rabbi to whom the other rabbis of that city defer, but that post is not officially the "Chief Rabbi".

Many of Israel's chief rabbis were previously chief rabbis of Israeli cities.
Ashkenazi
  • Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
    Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

    Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Mandate for Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948....
     — (1948-1959)
  • Isser Yehuda Unterman
    Isser Yehuda Unterman

    Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman was the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1964 until 1972.Born in Brest-Litovsk in modern Belarus, Unterman was educated at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Maltsch....
     — (1964-1973)
  • Shlomo Goren
    Shlomo Goren

    Shlomo Goren , was an Orthodox Judaism Religious Zionism rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1973 to 1983....
     — (1973-1983)
  • Avraham Shapira
    Avraham Shapira

    Avraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira , was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinic court of Jerusalem, and both a member and the head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court....
     — (1983-1993)
  • Yisrael Meir Lau
    Yisrael Meir Lau

    Yisrael Meir Lau is the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1993 to 2003....
     — (1993-2003)
  • Yona Metzger
    Yona Metzger

    Yona Metzger has been the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
     — (2003–)

Sephardi
  • Benzion Uziel
    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel or Ouziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954....
     — (1948-1954)
  • Yitzhak Nissim
    Yitzhak Nissim

    Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim was a former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Rabbi Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1925.In 1964, Pope Paul VI visited Israel but refused to visit Jerusalem....
     — (1955-1973)
  • Ovadia Yosef
    Ovadia Yosef

    Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Sephardi Jews Haredi Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakha authority. He is the former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli Knesset....
     — (1973-1983)
  • Mordechai Eliyahu
    Mordechai Eliyahu

    Mordechai Eliyahu is a former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
     — (1983-1993)
  • Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
    Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron

    Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron , is a former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
     — (1993-2003)
  • Shlomo Amar
    Shlomo Amar

    Rabbi Shlomo Amar has been the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His colleague is Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
     — (2003–)


Military Rabbinate
Military Rabbinate

The Military Rabbinate is a military unit in the Israel Defense Forces that provides religion services to soldiers, primarily to Jews but also including non-Jews, and makes decisions on issues of religion and military affairs....
  • Shlomo Goren
    Shlomo Goren

    Shlomo Goren , was an Orthodox Judaism Religious Zionism rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel from 1973 to 1983....
     (1948-1968)
  • Mordechai Peron
    Mordechai Peron

    Rabbi Mordechai Peron was the second Military Rabbinate in the history of the Israel Defence Force, serving in that position during the years 1968?1977....
     (1968-1977)
  • Gad Navon (1977-2000)
  • Israel Weiss (2000-2006)
  • Avichai Rontzki (2006-present)


Palestine Mandate Ensign 1927 1948
Mandate of Palestine

Ashkenazi
  • Meir Auerbach - Rabbi of Jerusalem (1860-1871)
  • Samuel Salant (1871-)
  • Abraham Isaac Kook
    Abraham Isaac Kook

    File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
     — (1921-1935)
  • Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
    Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

    Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Mandate for Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948....
     — (1936-1948)


Sephardi
  • Jacob Meir
    Jacob Meir

    Jacob Meir, , was the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi appointed under the British Mandate of Palestine.Born in Jerusalem in 1856, Meir was at the forefront of the effort to revive Hebrew as a modern language....
     — (1921-1939)
  • Benzion Uziel
    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel or Ouziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954....
     — (1939-1948)


Lebanon

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


Morocco

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

    Chalom Messas, , was the Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and after making aliyah became the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He wrote many works: Mizrah Chemech, Tevouot Chemech, Chemech Oumaguen, Beit Chemech and Veham Hachemech....

Mexico


  • Shlomo Tawil- present -


Poland

  • Ber Percowicz — (1945-1961)
  • Uszer Zibes — (1961-1966)
  • Zew Wawa Morejno
    Zew Wawa Morejno

    Zew Wawa Morejno a rabbi in Poland and the United States.Morejno was born into a hasidic family in Warsaw. He studied at yeshiva in Baranovichi, Mir, Belarus and in Kamieniec Podolski....
     — (1966-1973)
  • Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz — (1988-1999)
  • Michael Schudrich
    Michael Schudrich

    Rabbi Michael Schudrich is the chief rabbi of Poland. He was born in New York City to a Polish Jewish family from Baligr?d.Rabbi Schudrich is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook, and Columbia University, and received rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary of America and later, an orthodox rabbinical ordination through Yeshiva Un...
     — (2004–)


Russia

  • Adolf Shayevich
    Adolf Shayevich

    Adolf Shayevitch is one of two competing claimants to the title of Chief Rabbi of Russia. Despite his claims to the position, Adolf Shayevitch is not recognized by the Russian government as the leader of Russian Jewry....
     — (1983, officially since 1993-)
  • Berel Lazar
    Berel Lazar

    Rabbi Berel Lazar is an Orthodox Judaism rabbi affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic Judaism movement. He is presently one of two claimants to the title "Chief Rabbi of Russia", is the chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities....
     — (2000-) representing Chabad-Lubavitch
    Chabad-Lubavitch

    Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic Judaism movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn....


Serbia

  • Isak Asiel


South Africa

  • Louis Rabinowitz — (1945-1961)
  • Bernard M. Casper
  • Cyril Harris
    Cyril Harris

    Rabbi Cyril Kitchener Harris, , was Chief Rabbi of South Africa from 1987 to 2004.During his tenure, he was noted for his support of full democracy during South Africa's South Africa under apartheid years....
  • Warren Goldstein
    Warren Goldstein

    Rabbi Warren Goldstein is the chief rabbi of South Africa. Born in Pretoria, he currently lives in Johannesburg. He is the first chief rabbi of South Africa that was born in South Africa and the youngest ever to be appointed to that post, at age 32....
     — (2005-)


Singapore

  • Mordechai Abergel


Thailand

  • Yosef Kantor


United States

A chief Rabbinate never truly developed within the United States for a number of different reasons. While Jews first settled in what is now the US in the 1500s in the desert southwest, and 1654 in New Amsterdam
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Rabbis did not appear in the United States until the mid-Nineteenth Century. This lack of Rabbis, coupled with the lack of official colonial or state recognition of a particular sect of Judaism as official (e.g. Ottolengui v. Ancker) effectively led to a form congregationalism amongst American Jews. This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American Judaism, and in fact, some chief Rabbis developed in some American cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan Sarna

Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of History of the Jews in the United States in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the director of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership.He is regarded as one of the most prominent historians of American Judaism....
 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.

Flag of Transylvania Before 1918
Transylvania (before 1918)

Note: The chief rabbi of Transylvania
Transylvania

Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
 was generally the rabbi of the city of Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia

Alba Iulia Hungarian language: Gyulafeh?rv?r is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania with a population of 66,369, located on the Mures River....
.

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


Tunisia

  • Chaim Madar
    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....
     — (1984-2004)


Turkey

  • Eli Capsali — (1452 - 1454)
  • Moses Capsali
    Moses Capsali

    Moses b. Elijah Capsali was Hakham Bashi of the Ottoman empire.He was born in Greece in 1420. When a young man he left his native country in order to study at the German yeshiva. He is next mentioned as rabbi of Constantinople about 1450; but he became prominent only during the reign of Mehmed II, who appointed him chief rabbi of...
     — (1454 - 1497)
  • Elijah Mizrachi
    Elijah Mizrachi

    Elijah Mizrachi was a Talmudist and posek, an authority on Halakha. He is best known for his Sefer ha-Mizrachi, a supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah....
     — (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
    Yakir Gueron

    Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron was a Turkish-Jewish rabbi. He was born in 1813 and died at Jerusalem on February 4, 1874. He was the sixth rabbi of Adrianople descended from the Gueron family....
     — (1870 - 1872)
  • Moses Levi — (1872 - 1909)
  • Chaim Nahum
    Chaim Nahum

    Chaim Nahum Effendi was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguistics of the early 1900s. He was born in 1872 in Izmir. He was sent by his parents to a yeshiva in Tiberias, after which he studied at a French lycee for his secondary education and obtained a degree in Islamic law in Istanbul....
     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
    David Asseo

    File:David Asseo.jpgChief Rabbi David Asseo was the Hakham Bashi of the Republic of Turkey from 1961 until his death.Chief Rabbi David Asseo was the longest serving of the chief rabbis in Europe....
     — (1961-2002)
  • Ishak Haleva
    Ishak Haleva

    File:Isaac Haleva.jpgIshak Haleva is the current Hakham Bashi 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

    Gershom Sizomu 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....
     (-present) (see:Abayudaya
    Abayudaya

    The Abayudaya are a Baganda community in eastern Uganda near the town of Mbale who practice Judaism. Although they are not genetically or historically related to other Jew, they are generally devout in their practice of the religion, keeping their version of kashruth, and observing a limited Shabbat....
    )


Ukraine

  • Yaakov Dov Bleich
    Yaakov Bleich

    Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich is an American-born rabbi and member of the Karlin-Stoliner Chassidic group. He has been widely recognized as chief rabbi of both Kiev and Ukraine since 1992....
     - (1992-) - original post-communism chief rabbi, still widely recognized Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kiev
  • Alex Dukhovny - The Progressive (Liberal
    Liberal Judaism

    Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom is one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Reform Judaism ....
    /Reform
    Reform Judaism

    Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in Reform Judaism and in Reform Judaism ....
    ) Chief Rabbi of Kiev
    Kiev

    Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
     and Ukraine
  • Azriel Haikin - (2003-) - Chabad
    Chabad-Lubavitch

    Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic Judaism movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn....
     affiliated - not fully recognized as Ukraine Chief Rabbi, but heads the Ukrainian Chabad
  • Moshe Reuven Azman
    Moshe Reuven Azman

    Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman is the Chabad chief Rabbi of Ukraine, one of three rabbis with a claim on the title, and one of two Chabad rabbis with a claim....
     - (2005-) - rabbi from Chabad, though elected mostly by secular Jewish leaders and not by any rabbinical authority


Uruguay

  • Nechemia Berman
    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 ....
     (1970-1993)


Venezuela


Ashkenazi
  • Pynchas Brener
    Pynchas Brener

    Pynchas Brener is the Chief Rabbi of Caracas, Venezuela, starting in 1967. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University and his Master's degree from Columbia University, and is a PhD honoris causa of Bar Ilan University....

Sephardi
  • Isaac Cohen
    Isaac Cohen

    Isaac Cohen, , was a distinguished Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years....


Chief rabbis by city


The Netherlands


Interprovincial Chief Rabbinate
  • Elieser Berlinger 1960-1985
  • Binyomin Jacobs 2008-recent

Amsterdam
  • Menashe Ben Israel
  • Aron Schuster
  • Meir Just 1970-1978 (shlita)
  • Aryeh Ralbag (2008-recent)

Rotterdam
  • Yaakov Emden
  • Levi Vorst

The Hague
  • Daniel Shochat


Antwerp, Belgium

  • Chaim Kreiswirth
    Chaim Kreiswirth

    Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi who served as the longtime Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium. He was the founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem....
     — (1953-2001)


Baltimore, United States

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


Birobidzhan, Russia

  • Mordechai Scheiner
    Mordechai Scheiner

    Mordechai Sheiner has been Chief Rabbi of Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2002....
     — (2002 - present)


Budapest, Hungary

  • Yonasan Steif
    Yonasan Steif

    Rabbi Yonasan Steif was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbi Moshe Feinstein referred to as the gadol hador ....
    , pre-World War Two


Caracas, Venezuela


Ashkenazi
  • Pynchas Brener
    Pynchas Brener

    Pynchas Brener is the Chief Rabbi of Caracas, Venezuela, starting in 1967. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University and his Master's degree from Columbia University, and is a PhD honoris causa of Bar Ilan University....
     — ( –)

Sephardi
  • Isaac Cohιn
    Isaac Cohen

    Isaac Cohen, , was a distinguished Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years....
     — ( –)


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Chicago, United States

  • Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky
    Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky

    Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky , known by the acronym Ridvaz or Ridbaz, was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic commentator and educator.Born in Kobrin, Russia, Wilovsky held Rabbinic posts in Izvolin , Bobruisk , Vilnius ....
     known as the Ridbaz, served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations in the city from 1903-1905.


Haifa, Israel


Ashkenazi
  • She'ar Yashuv Cohen

Sephardi
  • Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
    Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron

    Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron , is a former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
     — (1975-1993)


Hebron, Israel

  • Chaim Hezekiah Medini
    Chaim Hezekiah Medini

    Chaim Hezekiah Medini, , also known as the Sede Chemed - the title of his chief halakha work - was a rabbinical scholar during the nineteenth century....
     — (1891-1904)


Hoboken, United States

  • Chaim Hirschensohn
    Chaim Hirschensohn

    Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn was born in Tzfat, , to Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn, who had aliyah from Pinsk in 1848. In 1864, the family moved to Jerusalem....
     — (1904-1935). His post included Hoboken
    Hoboken, New Jersey

    Hoboken is a City in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city's population was 38,577....
    , Jersey City, Union Hill and the Environs.


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Hong Kong, China

  • Jonathan Sacks
    Jonathan Sacks

    Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations....


Jerusalem, Israel


Ashkenazi
  • Meir Auerbach — (-1878)
  • Shmuel Salant
    Shmuel Salant

    Rabbi Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar.He was born in Bialystok, then part of Russia....
     — (1878-1909)
  • Chaim Berlin
    Chaim Berlin

    Chaim Berlin was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin.From 1889-1892 he lived in Volozhin, Lithuania where he was a head of a Beth din....
     — (1909-1915)
  • Tzvi Pesach Frank
    Tzvi Pesach Frank

    Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank was a renowned halakha scholar and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades....

Sephardi
  • Jacob Saul Elyashar
  • Jacob Meir
    Jacob Meir

    Jacob Meir, , was the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi appointed under the British Mandate of Palestine.Born in Jerusalem in 1856, Meir was at the forefront of the effort to revive Hebrew as a modern language....

Edah HaChareidis
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
    Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

    Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld was the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jews Haredi Judaism Jewish community of Jerusalem during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis....
     — (c.1920-1932)
  • Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st)
    Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st)

    Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky and Chief Rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis of Jerusalem....
     — (1932-1948)
  • Zelig Reuven Bengis
    Zelig Reuven Bengis

    Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis was the Russian-born Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. He wrote a seven-volume commentary on the Talmud, called "Leflagos Reuven"....
     — (1948-1953)
  • Joel Teitelbaum
    Joel Teitelbaum

    Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, , known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungary Hasidic Judaism rebbe and Talmudic scholar....
     of Satmar — (1953-1979)
  • Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss
    Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss

    Dayan Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss , also known as the Minchas Yitzchak, was a prominent Beth din#Officers of a Beth/Beis Din, Halacha authority and Talmudic scholar....
     — (1979-1989)
  • Moshe Aryeh Freund
    Moshe Aryeh Freund

    Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund was the Chief Rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. He wrote a famous book called Ateres Yehoshua, and he himself was also referred to with this name occasionally....
     — (1989-1996)
  • Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky
    Dushinsky (Hasidic dynasty)

    Dushinsky is one of the few List of Hasidic dynasties not named after the place where it originated; instead, it is named after the surname of the Rebbe....
     — (1996-2002)
  • Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss
    Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss

    Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss is the Chief Rabbi or Govad of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. He was appointed to this post in 2003, after having served as the av beis din of the Machzike Hadass kehilla of Jewish Community of Antwerp, Belgium....
     — (2002-)


Leiden, the Netherlands

  • Simon de Vries


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Montreal, Canada


Ashkenazi
  • Pinchas Hirschprung — (1969-1998)
  • Avraham David Niznik — (1998-2006)

Sephardi
  • David Sabbah


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Moscow, Russia

  • Yakov Maze — (prior to 1924-1933)
  • Shmuel Leib Medalia
    Shmuel Leib Medalia

    Shmuel-Leib Yankelevich Medalia was the chief rabbi of Moscow for a brief period in 1943. He was known among Chabad hasidim as Shmuel Leib Paritcher, for his birthplace of Paritch, Belarus, where he was born in 1890....
     — (1933-1938)
  • Shmuel Leib Levin — (1943-1944)
  • Shlomo Shleifer
    Shlomo Shleifer

    Shloime Mikhelevich Shlifer was born on December 23, 1889 in the village of Smela, near Kiev. His father was the rabbi of Alexandria, a town near Kherson....
     — (1944-1957)
  • Yehuda Leib Levin — (1957-1972)
  • Adolf Shayevich
    Adolf Shayevich

    Adolf Shayevitch is one of two competing claimants to the title of Chief Rabbi of Russia. Despite his claims to the position, Adolf Shayevitch is not recognized by the Russian government as the leader of Russian Jewry....
     — (1983, officially since 1993-)
  • Pinchas Goldschmidt
    Pinchas Goldschmidt

    Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia since 1993Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is the spiritual leader of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, the head of the rabbinnical court of the CIS, and is an officer of the Russian Jewish Congress ....
     - (1987-present)


Muenchen Kleines Stadtwappen
Munich, Germany

  • Pinchos Biberfeld
    Pinchas Biberfeld

    Pinchas Paul Biberfeld was a Rabbi in Germany and Israel.ChildhoodRabbi Pinchas Paul Biberfeld was born on October 31, 1915 in Berlin....
    , moved back to Germany from where he had emigrated to Israel over 50 years earlier. (1980-1999)
  • Steven Langnas, the first not German born (yet of German descent) Chief Rabbi and Av Beis Din of Munich — (1999-present)


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New York City, United States

  • Jacob Joseph
    Jacob Joseph

    Rabbi Jacob Joseph served as chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, a federation of Eastern European Jewish synagogues....
     was the only true Ashkenazi chief rabbi of New York City; there was never a Sephardi chief rabbi, although Dr. David DeSola Pool acted as a leader among the Sepharadim and was also respected as such. Others it has been said claimed the title of Chief Rabbi; eventually, the title became worthless through dilution.
  • Yosef Yitzchok Parnes, the Brooklyner Rebbe, was also considered as such, arriving in Borough Park, Brooklyn
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
     in approximately 1913; due to the many non-observant Jews then working for the local utility companies, he did not use any electricity on the Sabbath. Many religious Jews in America in the early 1900s were his adherents.


Novι Zαmky, Slovakia

  • Dr. Ernest Klein
    Ernest Klein

    Ernest Klein was a Canada linguistics, author, and rabbi.Klein was born in Szatm?rn?meti , in Partium — a region of Austria-Hungary at the time, it is now in Romania; he received his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1925....
     — (1931-1944)


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Rome, Italy

  • Israel Zolli
    Israel Zolli

    Israel Anton Zoller was from 1939 to 1945 Chief Rabbi of Rome. After the war, he converted to Roman Catholic Church, taking on the name Eugenio Zolli in recognition of Pope Pius XII....
     — (1940-1943)
  • Elio Toaff
    Elio Toaff

    Elio Toaff is the former Chief Rabbi of Rome. On 13 April, 1986, he greeted and prayed with Pope John Paul II during an unannounced visit to the Synagogue of Rome....
     — (1951-2002)
  • Riccardo Di Segni
    Riccardo di Segni

    Riccardo Di Segni 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-)


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Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • Josiyahu Pardo
  • Arye Leib Breslau
  • Dr. Joseph Isaacsohn
  • Dr. Bernhard Lφbel Ritter
  • A.B.N. Davids
  • Justus Tal
  • S.A. Rodrigues Pereira
  • Lou Vorst — (rabbi 1945-1959; chief rabbi 1959-1971)
  • Daniel Kahn
  • Albert Hutterer
  • L.B. van de Kamp
  • Raphael Evers
    Raphael Evers

    Rabbi Dr. Raphael Evers is a Netherlands rabbi and one of the more prominent rabbis of The Netherlands.He has been connected as a rabbi to the Nederlands Isra?litisch Kerkgenootschap since 1990; he is also dean of the Nederlands Isra?litisch Seminarium ....


St. Louis, Missouri

  • Chaim Fischel Epstein
  • Menachem Zvi Eichenstein 1943-1982
  • Sholom Rivkin ( -)


Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel


Sephardi
  • Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

    Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel or Ouziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954....
     — (1911-1939)
  • Ovadia Yosef
    Ovadia Yosef

    Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Sephardi Jews Haredi Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakha authority. He is the former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli Knesset....
     — (1968-1973)
  • Hayim David HaLevi
    Hayim David HaLevi

    Rabbi Hayim David HaLevi , also written Haim David ha-Levi, etc. ,was Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. He was born in Jerusalem and studied under Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva....
     — (1973-1998?)


Vienna, Austria

  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg


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Warsaw, Poland

  • Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz — (1988-1999)
  • Baruch Rabinowitz (1999-2000)
  • Michael Schudrich
    Michael Schudrich

    Rabbi Michael Schudrich is the chief rabbi of Poland. He was born in New York City to a Polish Jewish family from Baligr?d.Rabbi Schudrich is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook, and Columbia University, and received rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary of America and later, an orthodox rabbinical ordination through Yeshiva Un...
     — (2000–)


Zurich, Switzerland

  • Mordechai Piron
    Mordechai Peron

    Rabbi Mordechai Peron was the second Military Rabbinate in the history of the Israel Defence Force, serving in that position during the years 1968?1977....


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