Chief Rabbi () is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one

Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

and one

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. Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own chief rabbis; this is especially the case in Israel but has also been past practice in major Jewish centers in Europe prior to

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. North American cities rarely have chief rabbis. One exception however is

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, with two—one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi.

Jewish law ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is based on biblical commandments ('' mit ...

provides no

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ic support for the post of a "chief rabbi." The office, however, is said by many to find its precedent in the religio-political authority figures of Jewish antiquity (e.g., kings, high priests, patriarchs,

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s and ''geonim''). The position arose in Europe in the Middle Ages from governing authorities largely for secular administrative reasons such as collecting taxes and registering vital statistics, and for providing an intermediary between the government and the Jewish community, for example in the establishment of the Crown rabbi in several kingdoms of the

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, the ''rab de la corte'' in the

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or the ''arrabi mor'' in the

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, likely influenced by the expectations of their

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, and

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governments and neighbors. Similarly, in the 19th century there was a '' Crown rabbi'' of the

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By country/region

Albania

Argentina

Sephardi (Syrian)

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Ashkenazi

Austria

* Jitzchok ben Mosche von Wien, "Or Sorua" (ca. 1200–1270) *

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the ''Tosefet Yom-Tov'' (1614–1617). Heller was one of the majo ...

, "Tosfos Jomtov" (1578–1654) *

Scheftel Horowitz Stuart Scheftel (September 18, 1910 – January 20, 1994) was an American businessman, journalist, politician, and golfer. Early years Born on September 18, 1910, Scheftel was the son of Herbert Scheftel, a partner in J. S. Bache & Co. bro ...

(1561–1619) * Gerschon "Uliph" Aschkenasi (ca. 1612–1693) * Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) * Mosche Chanoch Berliner (1727–1793) * Isaak Noah Mannheimer (1824–1865) * Lazar Horowitz (1828–1868), chief rabbi of

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Adolf Jellinek Adolf Jellinek ( ''Aharon Jelinek''; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Temp ...

(1865–1893) * Moritz Güdemann (1894–1918) * Zwi Perez Chajes (1918–1927) * David Feuchtwang (1933–1936) * Israel Taglicht (1936), provisional chief rabbi * Insp. I. Öhler (1946), preacher at the Stadttempel * Akiva Eisenberg (1948–1983) * Paul Chaim Eisenberg (1983–2016) * Arie Folger (July 2016)

Belgium

* Eliakim Carmoly (1832–1839) * Henri Loeb *

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* Élie-Aristide Astruc (1866–1879) *

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* Armand Bloch

Bulgaria

* Gabriel Almosnino (1880–1885) * Presiado Bakish (1885–1889) * (1889–1891) * Moshe Tadjer (1891–1893) * Moritz Grünwald (1893–1895) * Presiado Bakish (1895–1898) * Moshe Tadjer (1898–1900) * Mordecai Ehrenpreis (1900–1914) * M. Hezkeya Shabetay Davidov (1914–1918) * (1920–1925) * No Chief Rabbi (1925–1945) * (1945–1949) * Behor Kahlon (1990–2012) * Aharon Zerbib (2012–2015) * Yoel Yifrach (2015–Present)

Chile

* Angel Kreiman Brill, 1970s and 1980s

Colombia

Ashkenazi

* Eliezer Paltiel Roitblatt (1946-1957) * Chaim Menachem Bentzion Blumenkrantz (Early 1950s) * Alfredo Goldschmidt (1974–Present) (appointed 1991)

Sephardi

* Miguel Attias (1948-Early 1950) * David Sharbani (Early 1950s-1978) * Yehuda Benhamu (1978-1986) *

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(1986-2000) * Shlomo Meir Elharar (2000-2010) * Avi Amsalem (2010-Dec. 2020)

Chabad

* Yehoshua Rosenfeld (1980–Present)

Cuba

* Meyer Rosenbaum (Son of Isamar of Nadvorna, Elected 1948: left Cuba in 1956, a little more than two years before

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba, president ...

came to power in the

Revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...

) * Raphael Yair Elnadav (1956–1959) * Shmuel Szteinhendler current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and regional director for Masorti Judaism in Latin America.

Croatia

* Miroslav Šalom Freiberger (1941–1943) * Kotel Da-Don (1998–2006) from 2006 rabbi of the Bet Israel community

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* Luciano Moše Prelević (2006–)

Cyprus

* Arie Zeev Raskin (2005–)

Czech Republic

* Karol Sidon

Denmark

* Abraham Salomon (1687–1700) * (1700–1728) * Marcus David (1729–1739) * Hirsch Samuel Levy (1741–1775) * (1778–1793) * Abraham Gedalia (1793–1827) * Abraham Wolff (1828–1891) *

David Simonsen David Jacob Simonsen (; 17 March 1853 – 15 June 1932) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied Oriental languages at the University of Copenhagen, and received his rabbinical training at the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar, Jewish Theologi ...

(1892–1902, 1919–1920) * Tobias Lewenstein (1903–1910) * Max Schornstein (1910–1919) * Max (Moses) Friediger (1920–1947) * Marcus Melchior (1947–1969) * Bent Melchior (1970–1996) * (1996–2014) * (2014–)

Ecuador

*Menachem Mendel Fried (2022- )

Egypt

* Moses Israel (?-1802) * Refael Aharon Ben Shimon (1891–1921) * Masoud Haim Ben Shimon (1921–1925) * Chaim Nahum (1925–1960) * Haim Moussa Douek (1960–1972)

Estonia

* Michael Asher Alony (1995–1996) *

Shmuel Kot ''Shmuel'' or Schmuel/ Shmeil is an Ashkenazi Jewish variant of the name Samuel. It comes from שמואל in Hebrew, and is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer ...

(2000–)

The Far East

* Aharon Moshe Kiselev (1937–1949)

Finland

* Simon Federbusch (1931–1940) * (1946–1951) * Mika Weiss (1957–1961) * Shmuel Beeri (1961–1963) * Mordechai Lanxner (1973–1982) * Ove Schwartz (1982–1987) * Lazar Kleinman (–1992) * Michael Asher Alony (1995–1996) * Moshe Edelmann (1999–2012) * (2012–)

Chabad-Lubavitch

* Benyamin Wolff (2003–)

France

* David Sintzheim (1808–1812) * Abraham Vita de Cologna (1808–1826) *

Emmanuel Deutz Emmanuel Deutz (1763-1842) was a German-born French rabbi. Biography Emmanuel Deutz was born in 1763 in Bonn, Germany. Deutz served as a rabbi in Koblenz, Germany. He served as the Chief Rabbi of France from 1810 to 1842. Nevertheless, Deutz was ...

(1810–1842) * Marchand Ennery (1846–1852) * Salomon Ulmann (1853–1865) * Lazare Isidor (1866–1888) * Zadoc Kahn (1889–1905) * Alfred Lévy (1907–1919) * Israël Lévi (1920–1939) * Isaïe Schwartz (1939–1952) * Jacob Kaplan (1955–1980) * René-Samuel Sirat (1981–1987) * Joseph Sitruk (1987–2008) * Gilles Bernheim (2009–2013) (elected 22 June 2008, resigned 11 April 2013) * Haim Korsia (2014–)

Galicia

* Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1778–1786) * Edgar Gluck Galicia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, that today forms part of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

and

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

; the title of its Chief Rabbi was abolished on November 1, 1786 as part of the Josephinism Reforms. Due to its being a center for Jewish scholarship, the Rabbi of

Lemberg Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

was traditionally seen as the Rabbi of Galicia in the era prior to

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Greece

* Elias Barzilai * Gabriel Negrin

Guatemala

* Meyer Rosenbaum (Son of Isamar of Nadvorna, Later Chief Rabbi of Cuba)

Honduras

* Aaron Lankry

Hong Kong

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* Mordecai Avston * Netanel Meoded

Hungary

:''Note that this list is not in chronological order.'' * Meir Eisenstadt known as the ''Panim Me'iros'' (1708–), rabbi of Eisenstadt and author of "Panim Me'irot" * Alexander ben Menahem * Phinehas Auerbach * Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig * Hirsch Semnitz * Simon Jolles (1717–?) * Samson Wertheimer (1693?–1724) (also

Eisenstadt Eisenstadt (; ; ; or ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Austria, Austrian state of Burgenland. With a population of 15,074 (as of 2023), it is the smallest state capital and the 38th-largest city in Austria overall. It lies at the foot o ...

and

Moravia Moravia ( ; ) is a historical region in the eastern Czech Republic, roughly encompassing its territory within the Danube River's drainage basin. It is one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The medieval and early ...

) * Issachar Berush Eskeles (1725–1753) * Joseph Hirsch Weiss—grandfather of Stephen Samuel Wise * Samuel Kohn * Simon Hevesi (father of Ferenc Hevesi) * Ferenc Hevesi * Moshe Kunitzer a pioneer of the Haskalah movement in Hungary (1828–1837) * Koppel Reich * Chaim Yehuda Deutsch * József Schweitzer * Robert (Avrohom Yehudoh) Deutsch

Iran

* Yedidia Shofet (1922–1980) * Uriel Davidi (1980–1994) * Yosef Hamadani Cohen (1994–2007) * Mashallah Golestani-Nejad (2007–2011) * Yehuda Gerami (2011-present)

Ireland

* Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1921–1937) * Immanuel Jakobovits (1949–1958) * Isaac Cohen (1959–1979) * David Rosen (1979–1984) *

(1985–1992) * Shimon Yehudah Harris (1993–1994) * Gavin Broder (1996–2000) * Yaakov Pearlman (2001–2008) * Zalman Lent (''acting'', 2008–2023) * Yoni Wieder (2023–present)

Israel

The position of chief rabbi () of the

Land of Israel The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine. The definition ...

has existed for hundreds of years. During the Mandatory Period, the British recognized the chief rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem. The offices continued after statehood was achieved.

Haredi Haredi Judaism (, ) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict interpretation of religious sources and its accepted (Jewish law) and traditions, in opposition to more accommodating values and practices. Its members are ...

Jewish groups (such as Edah HaChareidis) do not recognize the authority of the Chief Rabbinate. They usually have their own rabbis who do not have any connection to the state rabbinate. Under current Israeli law, the post of Chief Rabbi exists in only four cities (

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

, and

Beersheba Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...

). In other cities there may be one main rabbi to whom the other rabbis of that city defer, but that post is not officially the "Chief Rabbi". Many of Israel's chief rabbis were previously chief rabbis of Israeli cities.

Sephardi

* Moshe Galante (the Younger) (1665–1689) * Moshe ibn Habib (1689–1696) * Moshe Hayun * Abraham ben David Yitzhaki (1715–1722) * Binyamin Maali * Elazar ben Yaacob Nahum (1730–1748) * Nissim Mizrahi (1748–1754) * Israel Yaacob Algazy (1754–1756) * Raphael Samuel Meyuchas (1756–1791) * Haim Raphael Abraham ben Asher (1771–1772) * Yom Tov Algazy (1772–1802) * Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1805) * Yaacob Moshe Ayash al-Maghrebi (1806–1817) * Jacob Coral (1817–1819) * Raphael Yosef Hazzan (1819–1822) * Yom Tov Danon (1822–1824) * Salomon Moshe Suzin (1824–1836) * Yonah Moshe Navon (1836–1841) * Yehudah Raphael Navon (1841–1842) * Chaim Abraham Gagin (1842–1848) * Isaac Kovo (1848–1854) * Haim Nissim Abulafia (1854–1861) * Haim David Hazan (1861–1869) * Avraham Ashkenazi (1869–1880) * Raphael Meir Panigel (1880–1892) * Yaacob Shaul Elyashar (1893–1906) * Yaacob Meir (1906) * Eliyah Moshe Panigel (1907–1909) * Nahman Batito (1909–1911) * Moshe Franco (1911–1915) * Haim Moshe Elyashar (1914–1915) * Nissim Yehudah Danon (1915–1921) * Yaacob Meir (1921–1939) * Benzion Uziel (1939–1954) * Yitzhak Nissim (1955–1973) *

Ovadia Yosef Ovadia Yosef (, ; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) also known as Maran (Hebrew language, Hebrew: מרן) "Our Master", was an History of the Jews in Iraq#Otoman rule, Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, hakham, posek, and the Sephardi Jews, Sephar ...

(1973–1983) * Mordechai Eliyahu (1983–1993) * Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1993–2003) *

Shlomo Amar Shlomo Moshe Amar (; ; born April 1, 1948)Gantz, Nesanel. "A Chief Rabbi of the Past and Future". ''Ami (magazine), Ami'', November 5, 2014, pp. 26-27. is the former Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. He served in the po ...

(2003–2013) *

Yitzhak Yosef Yitzhak Yosef (; born ) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi. The former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, he also serves as the rosh yeshiva of in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood. Since the end of his term as Chief Rabbi, he joined the rabbinic leade ...

(2013–2024) * David Yosef (2024–)

Ashkenazi

* Meir Auerbach—Rabbi of Jerusalem (1860–1871) * Samuel Salant (1871–1909) *

Abraham Isaac Kook Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook (; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language acronym Hara'ayah (), was an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbina ...

(1921–1935) * Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1936–1959) * Isser Yehuda Unterman (1964–1973) *

Shlomo Goren Shlomo Goren (; 3 February 1918 – 29 October 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmud#Scholarship, Talmudic scholar. An Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionism, Religious Zionist, he was considered a foremost Posek, rabbin ...

(1973–1983) * Avraham Shapira (1983–1993) * Yisrael Meir Lau (1993–2003) * Yona Metzger (2003–2013) *

David Lau David Baruch Lau (; born 13 January 1966) is an Israeli rabbi who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 2013 to 2024. He previously served as the Chief Rabbi of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel, and as the Chief Rabbi of Shoham. La ...

(2013–2024) * Kalman Ber (2024–present)

Military Rabbinate

(1948–1968) * Mordechai Piron (1968–1977) * Gad Navon (1977–2000) * Israel Weiss (2000–2006) * Avichai Rontzki (2006–2010) * Rafi Peretz (2010–2016) * Eyal Karim (2016–)

Japan

* Binyamin Edre'i (2015–present)

Latvia

* Mordechai Nurock

Lebanon

* Moïse Yedid-Levy (1799–1829) * Ralph Alfandari * Youssef Mann (1849) * Aharoun Yedid-Levy * Zaki Cohen (1875) * Menaché Ezra Sutton * Jacob Bukai * Haïm Dana * Moïse Yedid-Levy * Nassim Afandi Danon (1908–1909) * Jacob Tarrab (1910–1921) * Salomon Tagger (1921–1923) * Shabtai Bahbout (1924–1950) * Benzion Lichtman (1932–1959) * Shahud Chreim (1960–1978)

Lithuania

* Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro

Luxembourg

* Samuel Hirsch (1843-1866) * Robert Serebrenik (1929–1941)

Mexico

* Shlomo Tawil (1998–Present)

North Macedonia

* Avi Kozma

Morocco

* Mardo Chee Bengio Chief Rabbi of Tangier. * Raphael Ankawa (1918–1935) * Mikail Encaoua * Chalom Messas (1961–1978) * Aaron Monsonego (1994–2018) * Yoshiyahu Pinto (2019–present)

Nepal

* Chezki Lifshitz (2000–present)

Norway

* Isaak Julius Samuel (1930–1942) * Michael Melchior (1980–)

Panama

* Zion Levy (1951–2008) Sephardic Chief Rabbi * Aaron Laine (1986–) Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi * David Perets (2016–) Sephardic Chief Rabbi

Peru

* Abraham Moshe Brener (1930-1967) * Baruj Epstein (1966-1967) *

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(1987-1998) * Efraim Zik (1999-2009) * Itay Meushar (2009-2016) * Salomon Cohen (2016-2019)

Poland

* Jacob Pollak (appointed 1503) * Moses Fishel (1541–1542) * Dow Ber Percowicz (1945–1956) * Zew Wawa Morejno (1956–1957) * Dow Ber Percowicz (1957–1961) * Uszer Zibes (1961–1966) * Zew Wawa Morejno (1966–1973) * Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz (1988–1999) * Michael Schudrich (2004–)

Military rabbinate

* Chaim Elizjer Frankl (?–1933) * Major Baruch Steinberg (1933–circa 12 April 1940) murdered by

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) se ...

in the

Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...

Romania

* Yaakov Yitzhak Neimerov (d. 1940) * Alexandru Safran (1940–1948) * Moses Rosen (1948–1994) * Menachem Hacohen (1997–2012) * Rafael Shaffer (2012–present)

Russia

* Adolf Shayevich (1983, officially since 1993–) * Chabad ** Berel Lazar (2000–) * Military Rabbinate ** Aharon Gurevich (2007–)

Serbia

* Isaac Alcalay (till 29 December 1978, also Chief Rabbi of

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from 1923 to 1941) * Isak Asiel

Singapore

* Mordechai Abergel

Slovakia

* Moses Sofer (1806–1839) * Samuel Benjamin Sofer (1839–1871) * Simcha Bunim Sofer (1871–1907) * Akiva Sofer (1907–1938) * Izidor Katz (1950–1968) * Baruch Myers (1993–present)

South Africa

* Judah Leo Landau (1915–1942) * Louis Rabinowitz (1945–1961) * Bernard M. Casper (1963–1987) * Cyril Harris (1988–2004) * Warren Goldstein (2005–)

Spain

The following are Chief Rabbis of the Jewish Community of Madrid (CJM): * Baruj Garzon (1968–1978), the first Chief Rabbi in Spain since the expulsion in 1492 * Yehuda Benasouli (1978–1997) * Moshe Bendahan (1997–)

Chabad-Lubavitch

* Menachem Naftalin (2025-)

Sudan

* Solomon Malka (1906–1949) * Haim Simoni (1950–1952) * Massoud El-Baz (1956–1965 by which time the Jewish community in Sudan had declined so dramatically that they could not afford to pay a Rabbi)

Syria

* Yom Tov Yedid (1960–1982), moved to the United States in 1982 and died 27 July 2016 in the United States

Thailand

* Yosef Kantor (1992–present)

Transylvania (before 1918)

Note: The chief rabbi of

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was generally the rabbi of the city of

Alba Iulia Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a ...

. * Joseph Reis Auerbach (d. 1750) * Shalom Selig ben Saul Cohen (1754–1757) * Johanan ben Isaac (1758–1760) * Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf of Cracow (1764–1777) * Moses ben Samuel Levi Margaliot (1778–1817) * Menahem ben Joshua Mendel (1818–23) * Ezekiel Paneth (1823–1843) * Abraham Friedmann (d. 1879), last chief rabbi of Transylvania

Tunisia

* Chaim Madar (1984–2004)

Turkey

* Eli Capsali (1452–1454) * Moses Capsali (1454–1497) * Elijah Mizrachi (1497–1526) * Mordechai Komitano (1526–1542) * Tam ben Yahya (1542–1543) * Eli Rozanes ha-Levi (1543) * Eli ben Hayim (1543–1602) * Yehiel Bashan (1602–1625) * Joseph Mitrani (1625–1639) * Yomtov Benyaes (1639–1642) * Yomtov Hananiah Benyakar (1642–1677) * Chaim Kamhi (1677–1715) * Judah Benrey (1715–1717) * Samuel Levi (1717–1720) *

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(1720–1745) * Solomon Hayim Alfandari (1745–1762) * Meir Ishaki (1762–1780) * Eli Palombo (1780–1800) * Chaim Jacob Benyakar (1800–1835) * Abraham Levi Pasha (1835–1839) * Samuel Hayim (1839–1841) * Moiz Fresko (1841–1854) * Yacob Avigdor (1854–1870) * Yakir Geron (1870–1872) * Moses Levi (1872–1909) * Chaim Nahum Effendi (1909–1920) * Shabbetai Levi (1920–1922) * Isaac Ariel (1922–1926) * Haim Bejerano (1926–1931) * Haim Isaac Saki (1931–1940) * Rafael David Saban (1940–1960) * David Asseo (1961–2002) * Ishak Haleva (2003–)

Chabad

* Mendy Chitrik (2003-present)

Uganda

* Gershom Sizomu () (see: Abayudaya)

Ukraine

* Azriel Chaikin (2003–2009) * Penitentiary rabbinate ** Jonathan Markovitch (2009–)

United Arab Emirates

* Levi Duchman (2015-) first resident rabbi to the UAE, appointed

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Shaliach to the UAE in 2020, making him the first Chabad Shaliach in a Gulf country. Directs the Jewish Community Center of the UAE. Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is the current Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates.

United Kingdom and Commonwealth

Presbyter Judaeorum (England)

* Jacob of London, (appointed 1199) * Josce of London (1217–1237) * Aaron of York (1237) * Elias le Evesque (appointed 1237) * Hagin fil Mosse (appointed 1257) * Hagin fil Deulacres (appointed 1281 by the favour of

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Ashkenazi chief rabbis

* Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel (1696–1700) * Aaron the Scribe of Dublin (1700–1704) * Aaron Hart (1704–1756) * Hart Lyon (1758–1764) * David Tevele Schiff (1765–1791) * Solomon Hirschell (1802–1842) * Nathan Marcus Adler (1845–1891) * Hermann Adler (1891–1911) * Joseph Herman Hertz (1913–1946) * Israel Brodie (1948–1965) * Immanuel Jakobovits (1966–1991; knighted 1981,

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1988) *

Jonathan Sacks Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks (8 March 19487 November 2020) was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As ...

(1991–2013; knighted 2005, life peer 2009) *

(2013–present; knighted 2023)

Spanish and Portuguese community Hahamim/senior rabbis

The Sephardi Jews in the United Kingdom are mainly members of independent synagogues. There is no single rabbi recognised by them as a chief rabbi. The Spanish and Portuguese community, however, consists of several synagogues, charities, a beth din and a kashruth authority. These are under the leadership of an ecclesiastical head. Historically, the individual who fills this role is recognised as a senior rabbi of Anglo Jewry, being the leader of the oldest Jewish community in the country. The Senior Rabbi was traditionally given the title, ''Haham,'' meaning "wise one". Since 1918, however, only Solomon Gaon was given this title. The official title of the holder of this office is now The Senior Rabbi of the S&P Sephardi Community of the United Kingdom. * Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas (1664–1665) * Yehoshua Da Silva (1670–1679) * Jacob Abendana (1681–1684) * Solomon Ayllon (1689–1700) * David Nieto (1701–1728) * Isaac Nieto (1732–1740) * Moshe Gomes de Mesquita (1744–1751) * Moshe Cohen d'Azevedo (1761–1784) * Raphael Meldola (1806–1828) * Benjamin Artom (1866–1879) *

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(1887–1918) * Shem Tob Gaguine (1920–1953) (officially the "Ecclesiastical Chief of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation," not the Haham) * Solomon Gaon (1949–1995) * Abraham Levy (1995–2012) (officially the Communal Rabbi and Spiritual Head of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, not the ''haham'') * Joseph Dweck (2013–) (elected Senior Rabbi of The S&P Sephardi Community, not the ''haham'')

United States

A chief rabbinate never truly developed within the United States for a number of different reasons. While Jews first settled in the United States in 1654 in

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, rabbis did not appear in the United States until the mid-nineteenth century. This lack of rabbis, coupled with the lack of official colonial or state recognition of a particular sect of Judaism as official effectively led to a form of

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amongst American Jews. This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American Judaism, and in fact, some chief rabbis developed in some American cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an Orthodox past, effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America. * Eliezer Silver

Uruguay

* Jaime Spector (1931–1937) * Aaron Milevsky (1937–1943) * Aaron Laschover (1943–1967) * Nechemia Berman (1970–1993) * Eliahu Birenbaum (1994–1999) * Yosef Bittón (1999–2002) * Mordejai Maarabi (2002–2009) * Shai Froindlich (2009–2010) * Isaac Fadda (2011–2012) * Ben-Tzion Spitz (2013–2016) * Max Yojanan Godet (2017–present)

Uzbekistan

* Baruch Abramchayev

Venezuela

* Sephardi ** Isaac Cohen * Ashkenazi ** Pynchas Brener (1967–)

By city

Alexandria, Egypt

* Raphael Della Pergola (1910-1918)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ashkenazi

* Aryeh Leib ben Saul 1740–1755 * Saul Lowenstam * B.S. Berenstein * Dr Joseph Hirsch Dünner * Abraham S. Onderwijzer * L.H. Sarlouis *

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* Aron Schuster * Meir Just 1970–1978 * Aryeh Ralbag (2008–2016) * Eliezer Wolff ( Av Beth Din, 2016–current)

Sephardi

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* Dr Benjamin Israel Ricardo * Dr Pinchas Toledano (2012–)

Antwerp, Belgium

* Chaim Kreiswirth (1953–2001)

Baltimore, Maryland – United States

* Abraham N. Schwartz (d. 1937) * Joseph H. Feldman (retired 1972, d. 1992)

Birobidzhan, Russia

* Mordechai Scheiner (2002–2020) * Efraim Kolpak (2020-present)

Brussels, Belgium

Budapest, Hungary

* Yonasan Steif (pre-World War II)

Caracas, Venezuela

Ashkenazi

* Pynchas Brener (1967–present)

Sephardi

* Isaac Cohén (–)

Chicago, Illinois – United States

* Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky known as the ''Ridbaz'', served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations in the city 1903–1905.

Copenhagen, Denmark

(1879–1891) * Elias Kalischer *

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(–1903) * Max Schornstein (19061910) * Bent Melchior (1963–1970) * Jacob Garfinkel (1971–1973)

Frankfurt, Germany

* Menachem Halevi Klein, Menachem Klein * Nathan HaKohen Adler

Gateshead, United Kingdom

* Naftoli Shakovitzky * Betzalel Rakow * Shraga Feivel Zimmerman (2008–2020)

The Hague, Netherlands

* Saul Isaac Halevi (1748–1785) * Tobias Tal (1895–1898) * Dov Yehuda Schochet (1946–1952)

Haifa, Israel

Ashkenazi

* She'ar Yashuv Cohen (1927–2016)

Sephardi

* Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1993–2003)

Hannover, Germany

* Samuel Freund (1924-1939) * Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky (1946-1949) * Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (1949-1952)

Hebron, West Bank

* Chaim Hezekiah Medini (1891–1904) * Dov Lior – present

Helsinki, Finland

* Naftali Amsterdam (1867–1875) * Avrohom Schain (1876–1881) * Abraham Werner-Homa (1881–1891) * Shmuel Noson Bukantz (1892–1924) * Scholem Triestman (1928–1929)

Hoboken, New Jersey – United States

* Chaim Hirschensohn (1904–1935). His post included Hoboken,

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, Union Hill and the Environs.

Jerusalem

Sephardi

* Levi Ibn Habib * David Ibn Abi Zimra * Moshe Galante I *

Haim Vital Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a rabbi in Safed and the foremost disciple of Isaac Luria. He recorded much of his master's teachin ...

* Betzalel Ashkenasi * Gedalia Cordovero * Isaac Gaon * Israel Benjamin * Yaacov Tzemah * Shemuel Garmison * Moshe Galante II (1665–1689) * Moshe Ibn Habib (1689–1696) * Moshe Hayun * Abraham ben David Yitzchaki (1715–1722) * Binyamin Maali * Elazar ben Yaacob Nahum (1730–1748) * Nissim Mizrahi (1748–1754) * Israel Yaacob Algazy (1754–1756) * Raphael Samuel Meyuchas (1756–1791) * Haim Raphael Abraham ben Asher (1771–1772) * Yom Tov Algazy (1772–1802) * Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1805) * Yaacob Moshe Ayash al-Maghrebi (1806–1817) * Jacob Coral (1817–1819) * Raphael Yosef Hazzan (1819–1822) * Yom Tov Danon (1822–1824) * Salomon Moshe Suzin (1824–1836) * Yonah Moshe Navon (1836–1841) * Yehudah Raphael Navon (1841–1842) * Haim Abraham Gagin (1842–1848) * Isaac Kovo (1848–1854) * Haim Nissim Abulafia (1854–1861) * Haim David Hazan (1861–1869) * Abraham Ashkenasi (1869–1880) * Raphael Meir Panigel (1880–1892) * Yaacob Shaul Elyashar (1893–1906) * Yaacob Meir (1906) * Eliyah Moshe Panigel (1907–1909) * Nahman Batito (1909–1911) * Moshe Franco (1911–1915) * Haim Moshe Elyashar (1914–1915) * Nissim Yehudah Danon (1915–1921) * Yaacob Meir (1921–1939) * Chalom Messas (1978–2003) *

(2014–)

Ashkenazi

* Meir Auerbach (?–1878) * Shmuel Salant (1878–1909) *

Chaim Berlin Chaim Berlin (1832, Valozhyn – 1912, Jerusalem) (חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889. He was the eldest son of the Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin. Biography Ch ...

(1909–1912?) *

(1919–1935) * Tzvi Pesach Frank (1936–?) * Betzalel Zolty (1977–?) * Yitzhak Kolitz (1983–2002) * Aryeh Stern (2014–)

Edah HaChareidis

:''Note: The Edah HaChareidis is unaffiliated with the State of Israel. It is a separate, independent religious community with its own Chief Rabbis, who are viewed, in the

world, as being the Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem.'' * Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1919–1932) * Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1932–1948) * Zelig Reuven Bengis (1948–1953) * Joel Teitelbaum of

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(1953–1979) * Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1979–1989) * Moshe Aryeh Freund (1989–1996) * Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky (1996–2002) * Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (2002–2022)

Kyiv, Ukraine

* Jonathan Markovitch (2000 – present)

Krakow, Poland

* Boaz Pash (2006–2012) * Eliezer Gurary (2014–present)

Leiden, Netherlands

* Simon de Vries

Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

* (1821–1836) * (1840–1886) * (1886–1895) * Tobias Lewenstein (1895–1899) * (1900–1918) * (1924–1927) * (1929–1932) * (1935–1945)

Milan, Italy

* Avraham David Shaumann * Elia Kopciovsky (195?–1980) * Giuseppe Laras (1980–2005) * Alfonso Arbib (2005–)

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,
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* Meir Kessler

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ashkenazi

* Zvi Hirsch Cohen (1922–1950) * Sheea Herschorn (1951–1961) * Pinchas Hirschprung (1969–1998) * Avraham David Niznik (1998–2006) * Binyomin Weiss (2007–Present)

Sephardi

* David Sabbah

Moscow, Russia

* Yakov Maze (prior to 1924–1933) *

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Shmarya Yehuda-Leib Yankelevich Me ...

(1933–1938) * Shmuel Leib Medalia (1943) * Shmuel Leib Levin (1943–1944) * Shlomo Shleifer (1944–1957) * Yehuda Leib Levin (1957–1971) * Adolf Shayevich (1983, officially since 1993–) * Pinchas Goldschmidt (1993–2022)

Munich, Germany

* Yitshak Ehrenberg (1989–1997) * Pinchos Biberfeld, moved back to Germany from where he had emigrated to Israel over 50 years earlier. (1980–1999) * Steven Langnas, first German (descendance) Chief Rabbi and Av Beth Din of Munich (1999–2011)

Netherlands – Inter-Provincial Chief rabbinate

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(1946–1952) hief Rabbi of The Hague* Elieser Berlinger (1960–1985) * Binyomin Jacobs (2008–recent)

New York, New York – United States

* Jacob Joseph (1840–1902) was the only true Ashkenazi chief rabbi of New York City; there was never a Sephardi chief rabbi, although Dr. David DeSola Pool acted as a leader among the Sepharadim and was also respected as such. Others it has been said claimed the title of Chief Rabbi; eventually, the title became worthless through dilution. * Chaim Jacob Wiedrewitz was the Chassidic chief rabbi of New York and Pennsylvania; he was previously the Chassidic Rav of Moscow and was officially called as "The Moskover Rav", immigrated in 1893 and died in 1911, he's buried in the Chabad society of the Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park NY. * Jacob S. Kassin was the Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community of New York 1930–1995. * Leibish Wolowsky was the chief rabbi of the Galician community of NYC 1888–1913, he was previously the rabbi of Sambor, Austria and immigrated to the US in 1888. He died in 1913 and is buried in the Achum Ahuvim of Reizow at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth NY. * Avrohom Aharon Yudelevitz who was previously the rav of Manchester, England was accepted in 1919 as the chief rabbi of the Jewish Arbitration Court of NYC. He authored many books on Jewish law and

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. He died in 1930 and is buried in family plot at the Bayside cemetery in Ozone Park NY.

Nové Zámky, Slovakia

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(1931–1944)

Paris, France

* Michel Seligmann (1809–1829) * Marchand Ennery (1829–1845) * Lazard Isidor (1847–1865) * Zadoc Kahn (1866–1889) * Jacques-Henri Dreyfuss (1891–1933) * Julien Weill (1933–1950) * Jacob Kaplan (1950–1955) * Meïr Jaïs (1956–1980) * Alain Goldmann (1980–1994) * David Messas (1994–2011) * Michel Gugenheim (2012– )

Rome, Italy

* Israel Zolli (1940–1945) * Elio Toaff (1951–2002) * Riccardo Di Segni (2002–)

Rotterdam, Netherlands

* Josiah Pardo (1648–1669)http://www.archieven.nl/pls/m/zk2.inv?p_q=64729996 See his Haskama – Approbation to Sefer Nachalat Shiva, edition Amsterdam 1667, where he is mentioned as Chief Rabbi of both the Sephardi and Ashkenazi congregations in Rotterdam * Yosia Pardo (1648–1669). Left in 1669 to Amsterdam. * Yuda Loeb ben Rabbi Shlomo (1674-abt. 1700). Born in Wilna. * Judah Salomon (1682) * Judah Loeb ben Abraham Ephraim Asher Anshel (1700–1708) Born in

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, left for

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. * Solomon Ezekiel (1725–1735) * Judah Ezekiel (1738–1755) * Abraham Ezekiel (1755–79) * Aryeh Leib Breslau (1741–1809) *

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son of Akiba Eger I (invited but refused position) * Elijah Casriel (1815–1833) * E.J. Löwenstamm (1834–1845) * Joseph Isaacsohn (1850–1871; one of three sons-in-law of Jacob Ettlinger who were Chief Rabbis in the Netherlands) * Bernhard Löbel Ritter (1885–1928) * Simon Hirsch (1928–1930) * Aaron Davids (1930–1944) *

(1945–1954) * Salomon Rodrigues Pereira (1954–1959) * Levie Vorst (1959–1971) * Daniel Kahn (1972–1975) * Albert Hutterer (1975–1977) * Dov Salzmann (1986–1988) * Lody van de Kamp * Raphael Evers

Shanghai, China

* Meir Ashkenazi (1926–1949)

Sofia, Bulgaria

* Daniel Zion (in World War II) * Asher Hannanel (in World War II)

St. Louis, Missouri – United States

* Chaim Fischel Epstein * Menachem Zvi Eichenstein (1943–1982) * Sholom Rivkin (1983–2011)

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Sephardi

* Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1911–1939) * Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (1942–1960) *

(1968–1973) * Hayim David HaLevi (1973–1998?)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

* Joseph Weinreb 1900–1942 * Avraham Aharon Price * Gedaliah Felder

Vienna, Austria

* Yitshak Ehrenberg (1983–1989) * Akiva Eisenberg * Paul Chaim Eisenberg * Arie Folger

Warsaw, Poland

* Dow Ber Meisels (1856-1870) * Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz (1988–1999) * Baruch Rabinowitz (1999–2000) * Michael Schudrich (2000–)

Würzburg, Germany

* Abraham Bing (1814–1839)

Zagreb, Croatia

* Hosea Jacobi (1880–1925) * Miroslav Šalom Freiberger (1941–1943)

"Grand Rabbi"

Occasionally, the term "Grand Rabbi" is used to note a

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, particularly used on a letterhead when the letterhead is in English.

References

External links

*
Office of the Chief Rabbi in London, England

Chief Rabbinate of Israel
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