Chief Rabbi of Russia

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Chief Rabbi of Russia ( Russian Главный раввин России Glawny rawwin Rossii ; scientific Glavnyj ravvin Rossii; Hebrew הרבנות הראשית לרוסיה English Chief Rabbi of Russia ) is the name for two chief rabbis who are both currently represented under this name in the Interreligious Council of Russia (Межрелигиозный совет России).

The Choral Synagogue (Moscow) on a Russian postage stamp.

One is Adolf Schajewitsch (born 1937 in Khabarovsk ), who studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest and succeeded Jakow Fischman (1913-1983) in 1980 under Fischman Rabbi of the Choral Synagogue (Moscow's main synagogue) and in 1983 Chief Rabbi of the Moscow Became a synagogue. At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union , he was elected Chief Rabbi of the Soviet Union at the Congress of the All Union Council of Jewish Religious Communities (ВСЕРО / WSERO). Shayevich was appointed Chief Rabbi of Russia by the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations of Russia (КЕРООР / KEROOR) founded in 1993.

Representatives of the traditional religions - Pandito Hambo-Lama Damba Ayusheyev , Muchammad Rachimow , Talgat Tajuddin , Kyrill I , Berel Lazar - together with Vladimir Putin on the Day of People's Unity (2012) in front of the Minin and Poscharsky monument in front of Basil -Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow .

The other is Berel Lazar (born 1964 in Milan ), who belongs to Orthodox Judaism and is closely related to the Chabad - Lubavitch Movement, officially recognized by the Russian government as Chief Rabbi of Russia. Lazar is the chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (ФЕОР / FEOR). In contrast to Shayevich, Lazar is present at the representative events of the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin (see photo) and is also represented in the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation .

Colonel Aaron Gurevich was appointed by Berel Lazar in December 2007 as the first military chief rabbi of Russia since the 1917 revolution. He is Chief Rabbi of the Federal Prison Service (ФСИН / FSIN) of Russia and the Russian Army .

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ interreligious.ru ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - accessed on November 28, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / interreligious.ru
  2. ↑ jewishbusinessnews.com (photo)
  3. ↑ Vsessojusnowo soweta yevreiskich religiosnych obschtschin / Всесоюзного совета еврейских религиозных общин / Vsesojuznogo soveta evrejskich religioznych obščin
  4. ↑ jweekly.com, March 30, 2001 (Eng.)
  5. ^ Jewish Chaplain for Russian Army, Nuke Fuel Delivered to Iran (Israel Nation News, December 17, 2007)

literature

  • Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (Ed.): Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader . 2010 ( partial online view )

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