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.
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
Europe
President of the CER
Dayan Menachem Gelley
London, UK
Chair of the Standing Committee of the CER
Chief Rabbi Dr Riccardo DiSegni
Rome, Italy
Vice-President of the CER
Rabbi Bruno Fiszon
Metz, France
Rabbi Avichai Apel
Frankfurt, Germany
Vice-President of the CER
Chief Rabbi S. Baksht
Odessa, Ukraine
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
Rabbi Moshe Lebel
Moscow, Russia
Rabbinical Director of the CER
Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Baskin
Jerusalem, Israels
CER Secretary General & Head of Rabbinic and Community Development Division
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
Rabbi Avichai Apel
Frankfurt, Germany
Vice-President of the CER
Chief Rabbi Alfonso Arbib
Milan, Italy
CHIEF RABBI
Chief Rabbi S. Baksht
Odessa, Ukraine
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
Chief Rabbi Moshe Ben Dehan
Madrid, Spain
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Joseph Dweck
London, UK
SENIOR RABBI OF THE SPANISH PORTUGUESE JEWS CONGREGATION
Rabbi Marcel Ebel
Zurich, Switzerland
EMERITUS CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Gad Eldad
Germany, Italy
Dayan in German and Italy Beth Din
Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer
Vienna, Austria
CHIEF RABBI
Chief Rabbi Bruno Fiszon
Metz, France
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Arie Folger
Vienna, Austria
Dayan Menachem Gelley
London, UK
Chair of the Standing Committee of the CER
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
Europe
President of the CER
Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui
Brussels, Belgium
CER Representative to the European Institutions in Brussels
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag
Manchester, UK
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Hofmeister
Vienna, Austria
CHIEF RABBI
Dayan Yaakov Hotoveli
Vienna, Austria
ROSH AV BEIT DIN & RABBI OF GEORGIAN SYNAGOGUE
Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia
Paris, France
1st Vice-President of the CER
Rabbi Rafael Kruskal
Odessa, Ukraine
CER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Rabbi Moshe Lebel
Moscow, Russia
Rabbinical Director of the CER
Rabbi Meir Levinger
Jerusalem, Israels
CER REPRESENTATIVE
Chief Rabbi Moshe Lewin
Paris, France
Vice-President of the CER
Rabbi Nathan Shlomo Liss
London, UK
RABBI OF HIGHGATE SHUL, DIRECTOR OF RABBINIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE
Rabbi Shlomo Noach Mandel
Toronto, Canada
CER REPRESENTATIVE
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis
London, UK
Associate President
Chief Rabbi Réouven Ohana
Marseille , France
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Arye Ralbag
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EMERITUS CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi David Roberts
Berlin, Germany
Rabbi of Kahal Adas Israel Berlin
Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Warsaw, Poland
CHIEF RABBI
Chief Rabbi Dr Riccardo Di Segni
Rome, Italy
Vice-President of the CER
Rabbi Naftali Shiff
London, UK
FOUNDER & CEO JEWISH FUTURES
Rabbi Joshua Spinner
Berlin, Germany
PRESIDENT, BERLIN RABBINICAL SEMINARY
Rabbi Yihya Teboul
Lyon, France
AV BEIT DIN DE LYON ET REGION
Chief Rabbi Harold Weill
Strasbourg, France
CHIEF RABBI
Chief Rabbi Eliezer Wolff
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Yoel Yifrah
Sofia, Bulgaria
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi David Yuschuvaev
Moscow, Russia
TORAH MITZION
Rabbi Pinchas Salzman
Chișinău, Moldova
Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Daniel Dahan
Lyon, France
Chief Rabbi
ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2021-2023
Rabbi Moshe Halperin
Berlin, Germany
Rabbi Shmuel Katz
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rabbi Mordechai Raichinstein
Minsk, Belarus
Dayan Rabbi Izak Perez
Istanbul, Turkey
Rabbi Avinoam Czitron
Borehamwood, UK
Rabbi Mattias Amster
Stockholm, Sweden
HONORARY MEMBERS
Chief Rabbi Michel Gugenheim
Paris, France
CHIEF RABBI
Rabbi Shmuel Akiva Schlesinger
Strasbourg, France
ETZ HAYIM
Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Dayan
Geneva, Switzerland
Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the CER
Emeritus Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi Rafael Evers
Düsseldorf, Germany
Emeritus Chief Rabbi
