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Yehuda Teichtal (* 1972 in Brooklyn , New York City , United States ) is an American Orthodox rabbi of the Chabad Lubavitch Movement. He is the rabbi of the Berlin Jewish Community and chairman of the Chabad Jewish Education Center in Berlin .

Life

Yehuda Teichtal was born in New York City and grew up there in a traditional Jewish family. He graduated from high school in 1989 and then attended Rabbinical College in Morristown , New Jersey . He received his ordination from Chief Justice Rabbi Goldberg. At the age of 23 he was ordained a rabbi at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in New York . Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson suggested that he go to Germany to support Jewish life there. In 1996, Yehuda and Leah Teichtal came to Berlin with their family. As part of the Jewish community in Berlin, Yehuda Teichtal established a Chabad branch. The largest Jewish education center in Europe was opened in 2007 under his chairmanship in the western part of the city of Berlin. The construction was financed with donations from the community members. He and his wife Leah have two sons and four daughters.

Important stations

  • 1996 Foundation of Chabad Lubawitsch Berlin
  • 1997 Opening of the Chabad Center
  • 1998 Foundation of the Jewish holiday camp Gan Israel
  • 1999 Opening of the first rabbi training seminars
  • 2000 Opening of the synagogue on Augsburger Strasse, Berlin
  • 2001 Opening of the first Jewish youth club
  • Organization of the visit of the Chief Rabbi of Israel to Berlin
  • 2002 Lighting of the public Hanukkah lamp at the Brandenburg Gate , Berlin, for the first time in the presence of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Mr. Klaus Wowereit
  • 2004 Opening of the Jewish kindergarten
  • 2005 Opening of the traditional Jewish school, a state-approved primary school
  • 2006 Opening of the Jewish multimedia center and library
  • 2007 grand opening and inauguration of the Jewish Education Center in the presence of Foreign Minister Steinmeier. This 6 million euro building is the first Jewish center built in Germany after the Shoah, which is mainly financed by private donations. In addition to a synagogue with 250 seats, a seminar hall, a culture library, a multimedia center, a youth lounge, a restaurant, a tourist center and a Judaica shop are part of the house's offerings.
  • 2008 Opening of the Mikva Berlin - a Jewish ritual bath that is considered one of the most beautiful and modern Mikva in the world.
  • 2009 Opening of the Jewish boarding school Tora-Kolleg, Berlin Jewish-Tora-Center
  • In 2010, for the first time since World War II, a Jewish Parade for Peace and Tolerance took place with over 30 Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and over 1000 participants.
  • 2011 Opening of the Center for Israelis in Berlin
  • 2012 Opening of the first traditional Jewish high school in Germany
  • Rabbi ordination ceremony in the presence of the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel
  • Publication of the first Jewish scientific text collection
  • 2013 Opening of the first Jewish student center in Germany and involvement of the 6th rabbi couple in Berlin
  • Opening of the second Jewish kindergarten in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 2014 Foundation of the Beth Din - which is also the first rabbi court with a permanent seat in Germany.
  • 2015 Extension of the Alexanderplatz synagogue
  • 2016 opening of a third Jewish kindergarten
  • 2017 First Abitur at the traditional Jewish school, state-recognized grammar school
Hanukkah lights on at the Brandenburg Gate 2018
  • 2018 - Students of the traditional Jewish school receive the best Abitur in Berlin

- Laying of the foundation stone for the Jewish Campus with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

- Hanukkah lights at the Brandenburg Gate with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  • 2019 Start of construction on the Pears Jewish Campus

position

Teichtal stands up for a Jewish community that is open to everyone, no matter what background he or she has, and he promotes the willingness to spread Jewish knowledge.

Anti-Semitic attack

At the end of July 2019, Rabbi Teichtal was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack - on the way home after the service he was verbally abused and spat at by two men in Arabic near a synagogue in the Wilmersdorf district in front of his child.

In the days that followed, there was widespread media coverage of the attack on Teichtal and other similar attacks on Jews in Munich and Berlin. Various professional politicians showed their solidarity with Yehuda Teichtal. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Rabbi Teichtal at home to express his solidarity and support. Many Berlin public figures and high-ranking politicians took part in a solidarity prayer organized by Chabad . a. Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Bundestag Vice- President Petra Pau .

The corresponding investigative proceedings had to be discontinued because there had been suspects during the investigation, but the crime could not be clearly proven to them despite cell phone evaluations and witnesses.

Web links

Commons : Yehudah Teichtal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.berlin-judentum.de/rabbiner/teichtel.htm
  2. ↑ Hundreds take part in solidarity prayer for attacked rabbis. www.spiegel.de, August 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Jews in Berlin: Life Between Clichés and Anti-Semitism By Sebastian Engelbrecht Deutschlandfunk August 15, 2019
  4. ↑ 70-year-old injured in another anti-Semitic attack. www.welt.de, October 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Pond Valley, Yehuda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Orthodox Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn