Julien Chaim Soussan

Julien Chaim Soussan (also: Julian Chaim Soussan ; born April 13, 1968 in Schluchsee ) is a German Orthodox rabbi of the Frankfurt Jewish Community .

Life

Julien Chaim Soussan grew up as the son of the Moroccan- Sephardic rabbi Benjamin Soussan and a German mother in Freiburg im Breisgau . He attended the Freiburg German-French high school , where he passed his Abitur. He then studied economics and Jewish studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , then exclusively Jewish studies at the Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies . During his studies, he began ten years as a teacher for Jewish religious education in Stuttgart , after which he received a position as a religion teacher in Düsseldorf .

Encouraged and supported by the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Paul Spiegel , Soussan completed training as a rabbi at a yeshiva in Jerusalem , where he also received his ordination in May 2003 . From 2003 Soussan was the rabbi of the unified congregation of Düsseldorf, the third largest Jewish congregation in Germany, until he left it in 2011. Afterwards Soussan was rabbi of the Jewish community in Mainz. He is a member of the advisory board of the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany (ORD) and partly represents the ORD externally, for example in the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR). He is also a member of the discussion group "Jews and Christians" of the Central Committee of German Catholics at the federal level and of the discussion group of the committee "Christians and Jews" of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . As one of four Jewish representatives, Soussan took part in a meeting of the Presidents of the European Parliament , the European Council and the European Commission on the subject of human dignity in the Berlaymont in Brussels in 2007 .

Julien Chaim Soussan is married and has two sons.