Netanel Wurmser

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Netanel Wurmser (* 1953 in Basel , Switzerland ) is an Orthodox rabbi .

Life

After Wurmser decided to become a rabbi, he went to Israel to study in Jerusalem. There he met his future wife. In the mid-1990s he came to Germany and was a rabbi in Fürth, among other places. Wurmser is married and has eight children.

In November 2015 Wurmser got into public criticism because it in a memorial service at the November pogroms in 1938 the usual present women handshake refused. This strictly orthodox approach was seen partly as a lack of courtesy and inappropriate for the occasion, since the Jewish tradition in Gmünd was conservative, but not orthodox. The Israelite Religious Community of Württemberg, on the other hand, defended Wurmser's adherence to Jewish customs and protested against a “witch hunt on a certain rabbi”.

From 2002 to 2018 he was a regional rabbi in Württemberg at the Israelite Religious Community of Württemberg , based in Stuttgart. As the state rabbi for Württemberg, Wurmser succeeded Joel Berger . In 2018, Wurmser retired; He was succeeded by Yehuda Pushkin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Netanel Wurmser, the state rabbi of Württemberg ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mpg.campus.bb.schule-bw.de
  2. ^ A b "State rabbi Netanel Wurmser has eight children" , Hohenloher Tagblatt from January 19, 2013
  3. ↑ A handshake . In: Jüdische Allgemeine from November 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ “Wurmser goes, Pushkin comes” , Jüdische Allgemeine, August 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wurmser, Netanel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland