Jaron Engelmayer

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Jaron Engelmayer ( Yaron Baruch Engelmayer ; born 1976 in Zurich ) is an Israeli-Swiss rabbi .

Life

Jaron Engelmayer grew up in Switzerland , then lived a. a. nine years in Israel, where he completed studies at various universities and rabbinical seminars (including Yeshiva Heser in Maʿale Adummim ). In 2002 he was ordained a rabbi ( Semicha ) by the Ashkenazi chief rabbinate in Israel, and before taking office in Cologne he served as rabbi in Aachen for three years .

Since September 1, 2008 Engelmayer has been rabbi at the Cologne synagogue community as the successor to Natanel Teitelbaum , who had resigned from his position at short notice for health and family reasons. In November 2014 it was announced that he was going to Israel . One of the reasons is that there is no secondary Jewish school for his children in Cologne, another reason is his desire to live in Israel. At the end of January 2015, he implemented his plan. The Cologne synagogue community then remained without a rabbi for three years, until Yechiel Brukner , also from Zurich, took the position in September 2018.

In February 2020 it became known that he had been unanimously appointed as the new Chief Rabbi of Vienna by the board of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien . He took office in August 2020.

Rabbi Engelmayer was a member of the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference of Germany .

He speaks Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish, Italian, Russian and French. Rabbi Engelmayer is married and has four children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Baumanns: After six years: Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer leaves Cologne. In: express.de. November 27, 2014, accessed April 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Count Constantin von Hoensbroech: "Much is on the right track". In: Jüdische Allgemeine . January 26, 2015, accessed April 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ WZ Online: Jaron Engelmayer becomes Chief Rabbi of Vienna. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Chief Rabbi Engelmayer takes office. In: ORF.at . August 21, 2020, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer. In: ordonline.de. September 4, 2010, accessed April 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Engelmayer, Jaron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelmayer, Yaron Baruch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-Swiss rabbi in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich