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Conference of European Rabbis
CER Standing Committee I-2024 Lyon, France
September 2, 2024, 4:37 pm
Conference of European Rabbis launches initiative to support smaller Jewish communities
Community Package costing £63 a month over three years offers halachic advice including checking mikvaot and inspecting Torah scrolls
By Michelle Rosenberg
The new official headquarters of the Conference of European Rabbis. Photo Credits: Rober Gongoll, CER
October 31, 2023, 1:07 pm
‘The current situation in Israel means we need to be with our communities’: Conference of European Rabbis postpones annual convention
Meeting of CER, one of Europe’s most prominent associations of Orthodox rabbis, was to have taken place in Azerbaijan on 12th November
By Jenni Frazer
Memorial wall to Munich's 4,000 Jewish Holocaust victims, Ohel Jakob synagogue. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg, September 2023
September 22, 2023, 9:35 am
OPINION: Reluctant reflection: My journey into Germany’s Jewish future
Anxiously travelling to Germany for the first time, Michelle Rosenberg found a city still haunted by its past despite efforts to move into the future.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. Photo Credits: Rober Gongoll, CER
September 20, 2023, 9:08 pm
Conference of European Rabbis opens new HQ in Munich
This centre is a "symbol of hope and a message to all the dark forces that threaten the Jewish people," says CER President Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
By Michelle Rosenberg
Roger Waters on stage
July 18, 2023, 6:12 pm
Jewish groups around the world pile pressure on Bertelsmann to drop Waters
A letter coordinated by Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a non-profit entertainment industry organisation, has attracted the support of 14 of the highest-profile Jewish organisations across the developed world.
By Jewish News Reporter
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, center, receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis in Munich, May 9, 2023. On right is CER President Pinchas Goldschmidt and on left is Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and upper Bavaria. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 11:57 am
Brexit’s fault: European rabbinical group moves HQ from London to Munich
Conference of European Rabbis President Pinchas Goldschmidt confirms the UK's EU exit was a leading factor in the move.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
January 4, 2023, 12:36 pm
Moscow’s former Chief Rabbi: ‘The best option for Russian Jews is to leave’
Pinchas Goldshmidt urges Russian Jews to follow his example and leave before it’s too late. 
By David I Klein (JTA)
Bucharest, Romania - November 03, 2022.
November 16, 2022, 9:05 am
Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing the right to kosher slaughter
Religious slaughter is illegal in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Slovenia and parts of Belgium.
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
Michael Schudrich (Wikipedia/Cezary Piwowarski)
June 15, 2022, 5:45 pm
Poland’s chief rabbi: Jews here have gone from receiving to giving
Rabbi Michael Schudrich says the country's community has changed in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the resulting refugee crisis
By Jenni Frazer
2JAWFRN Munich, Germany. 01st June, 2022. Joachim Hermann (CSU, M), Minister of the Interior of Bavaria, speaks during the 32nd General Assembly of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) during a visit to the Dachau concentration camp memorial. Credit: Sven Hoppe/dpa/Alamy Live News
June 6, 2022, 12:21 pm
Birthplace of the Holocaust hosts first crucial rabbis’ conference after lockdown
Munich, where the Nazi genocidal project began, hosted an influx of rabbis from all over the world and from the full spectrum of Jewish views
By Jenni Frazer
Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt.
June 4, 2022, 7:46 pm
Moscow’s Chief Rabbi sets out post-pandemic challenges facing the Jewish world
Pinchas Goldschmidt tells Jewish News: "We have to re-start Jewish life. Many places are now smaller, poorer, and less organised."
By Jenni Frazer in Munich
Tony Blair at the CER event in memory of Rabbi Lord Sacks
January 4, 2021, 1:19 pm
Tony Blair addresses European rabbis’ memorial for Lord Sacks
Former prime minister highlighted the late leader's impact 'in spiritual, sociological, political, and intellectual spheres' at the event organised by Conference of European Rabbis
By Jewish News Reporter
December 17, 2020, 12:45 pm
Anger over ‘absurd’ European court ruling upholding Belgian shechita ban
Shimon Cohen of Shechita UK said the decision was 'very significant to the UK Jewish community, even post Brexit'
By Jewish News Reporter
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Meshulam
October 31, 2020, 12:47 pm
Row as Dutch chief rabbi says churches’ admission of Shoah guilt ‘unnecessary’
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis said Binyomin Jacobs 'does not represent anyone' with his remarks
By JTA
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, and Shiekh Dr Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League and president of Muslim Scholars Organisation.
July 7, 2020, 2:56 pm
Jewish and Muslim leaders unite ahead of hearing into Belgian kosher-halal ban
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and Shiekh Dr Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa issue joint statement saying it would not be justified to stop faiths practicing religious slaughter
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