Jehoshua Ahrens

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Josh Ahrens in conversation with Pope Francis, April 2017

Jehoshua (Josh) Ahrens (* 1978 in Erlenbach am Main ) is a German Orthodox rabbi .

After graduating from high school in 1996, Ahrens studied international management and worked for various corporations, including Exxon Mobile . Then he reoriented himself professionally and was trained as a rabbi in Israel, in parallel at a traditional Kollel , at the Bar Ilan University and the Jewish University in Hungary, where he received his doctorate in Jewish liturgy. He then studied Jewish-Christian relations in Cambridge and obtained a master's degree ( Woolf Institute for Jewish-Christian relations ).

He worked as a rabbi in Sofia from 2010 to 2013, from 2013 to 2015 in the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich and then for a short time in Düsseldorf, before taking on a research assignment for the Swiss National Fund as part of his doctorate in autumn 2015 (via the Seelisberg conference ) and withdrew from church work. Since 2016 he has been working as a rabbi in Nuremberg again.

He is a member of the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany and Director for Central Europe of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation . Ahrens was or is engaged in Judeo-Christian and Judeo-Christian-Muslim conversations at his various places of work.

Ahrens was one of the initiators of the Orthodox Rabbinical Declaration on Christianity in 2015 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rabbi Josh Ahrens. In: CJCUC. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Regret on both sides. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. October 19, 2015, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ "Dialogue is not a cuddle course". In: evangelisch.de. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Members of the ORD. In: ordonline.de. Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Rabbis want closer rapprochement. In: RP online. December 11, 2015, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Declaration by Orthodox rabbis: Voice from the middle. In: Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. December 15, 2015, accessed August 8, 2018 .


personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Yehoshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahrens, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthodox rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlenbach am Main