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The Executive Council

The Executive Council works with the President and handles the day-to-day management of the CER. The members of the Executive Council are elected for 5 year terms and divide responsibility for the following Portfolios:

Management and Administration, Finance, Governance and Audit, Liaison with the Standing Committee, Liaison with the Board of Patrons, Rabbinical Training, Rabbinical Standards Halacha and European Beth Din, Education and Jewish Continuity, Advocacy and Religious Freedom, Lo Tishkach, Union of Mohalim of Europe (UME), Inter-Rabbinical Relations – including the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Relations with World Jewish organizations, Relations with the European Union and Institutions of the EC, External Relations, Inter Religious Relations.

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Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Europe
President of the CER
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Dayan Menachem Gelley

London, UK
Chair of the Standing Committee of the CER
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Chief Rabbi Dr Riccardo DiSegni

Rome, Italy
Vice-President of the CER
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Rabbi Bruno Fiszon

Metz, France
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Rabbi Avichai Apel

Frankfurt, Germany
Vice-President of the CER
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Chief Rabbi S. Baksht

Odessa, Ukraine
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
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Rabbi Moshe Lebel

Moscow, Russia
Rabbinical Director of the CER
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Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Baskin

Jerusalem, Israels
CER Secretary General & Head of Rabbinic and Community Development Division
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Gady Gronich

Munich, Germany
CEO & Chief of Staff to the President of the CER Foundation

STANDING COMMITTEE

The supreme governing body of the Conference of European Rabbis is its Standing Committee which meets in a major European City twice yearly. The following rabbis are members of the CER Standing Committee:

Permanent Voting Members

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Rabbi Avichai Apel

Frankfurt, Germany
Vice-President of the CER
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Chief Rabbi Alfonso Arbib

Milan, Italy
CHIEF RABBI
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Chief Rabbi S. Baksht

Odessa, Ukraine
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
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Chief Rabbi Moshe Ben Dehan

Madrid, Spain
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Joseph Dweck

London, UK
SENIOR RABBI OF THE SPANISH PORTUGUESE JEWS CONGREGATION
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Rabbi Marcel Ebel

Zurich, Switzerland
EMERITUS CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Gad Eldad

Germany, Italy
Dayan in German and Italy Beth Din
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Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer

Vienna, Austria
CHIEF RABBI
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Chief Rabbi Bruno Fiszon

Metz, France
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Arie Folger

Vienna, Austria
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Dayan Menachem Gelley

London, UK
Chair of the Standing Committee of the CER
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Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Europe
President of the CER
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Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui

Brussels, Belgium
CER Representative to the European Institutions in Brussels
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Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag

Manchester, UK
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Chief Rabbi Shlomo Hofmeister

Vienna, Austria
CHIEF RABBI
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Dayan Yaakov Hotoveli

Vienna, Austria
ROSH AV BEIT DIN & RABBI OF GEORGIAN SYNAGOGUE
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Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia

Paris, France
1st Vice-President of the CER
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Rabbi Rafael Kruskal

Odessa, Ukraine
CER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
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Rabbi Moshe Lebel

Moscow, Russia
Rabbinical Director of the CER
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Rabbi Meir Levinger

Jerusalem, Israels
CER REPRESENTATIVE
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Chief Rabbi Moshe Lewin

Paris, France
Vice-President of the CER
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Rabbi Nathan Shlomo Liss

London, UK
RABBI OF HIGHGATE SHUL, DIRECTOR OF RABBINIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE
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Rabbi Shlomo Noach Mandel

Toronto, Canada
CER REPRESENTATIVE
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Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

London, UK
Associate President
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Chief Rabbi Réouven Ohana

Marseille , France
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Arye Ralbag

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EMERITUS CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi David Roberts

Berlin, Germany
Rabbi of Kahal Adas Israel Berlin
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Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich

Warsaw, Poland
CHIEF RABBI
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Chief Rabbi Dr Riccardo Di Segni

Rome, Italy
Vice-President of the CER
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Rabbi Naftali Shiff

London, UK
FOUNDER & CEO JEWISH FUTURES
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Rabbi Joshua Spinner

Berlin, Germany
PRESIDENT, BERLIN RABBINICAL SEMINARY
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Rabbi Yihya Teboul

Lyon, France
AV BEIT DIN DE LYON ET REGION
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Chief Rabbi Harold Weill

Strasbourg, France
CHIEF RABBI
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Chief Rabbi Eliezer Wolff

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Yoel Yifrah

Sofia, Bulgaria
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi David Yuschuvaev

Moscow, Russia
TORAH MITZION
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Rabbi Pinchas Salzman

Chișinău, Moldova
Chief Rabbi
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Rabbi Daniel Dahan

Lyon, France
Chief Rabbi

ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2021-2023

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Rabbi Moshe Halperin

Berlin, Germany
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Rabbi Shmuel Katz

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mordechai Raichinstein

Minsk, Belarus
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Dayan Rabbi Izak Perez

Istanbul, Turkey
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Rabbi Avinoam Czitron

Borehamwood, UK
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Rabbi Mattias Amster

Stockholm, Sweden

HONORARY MEMBERS

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Chief Rabbi Michel Gugenheim

Paris, France
CHIEF RABBI
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Rabbi Shmuel Akiva Schlesinger

Strasbourg, France
ETZ HAYIM
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Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Dayan

Geneva, Switzerland
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
Emeritus Chief Rabbi
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Chief Rabbi Rafael Evers

Düsseldorf, Germany
Emeritus Chief Rabbi
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Rabbi René Gutman

Strasbourg, France
Emeritus Chief Rabbi

List of Conventions and Standing Committee meetings of the CER since inception

Conventions – Download
Standing Committee – Download