Conference of European Rabbis

Iran threatens Azerbaijan into cancelling European rabbi conference

The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev speaks during a signing event with U.S. President Donald Trump and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Azerbaijan President Aliyev extends Jewish community Rosh Hashanah greeting

 Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative Christian Schmidt.

Bosnia High Representative: Politicians should know Hamas is Iranian terror branch - interview

 FROM LEFT: Dayan Menachem Gelley of the CER’s European Beth Din; Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the CER; and Gady Gronich, CEO and chief of staff, attend the Munich Conference of European Rabbis.

A seat at the table: Discussing Jewish issues in Europe - opinion


Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt - guiding Europe’s Orthodox rabbinate

Goldschmidt is the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, the primary Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe, uniting more than 700 religious leaders of mainstream synagogue communities.

 PRESENTING THE CER Prize to then-German chancellor Angela Merkel, together with Brussels’ Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui, 2013

EJC head to ‘Post’: Without Israel’s help, many Diaspora communities will disappear

Muzicant created an emergency program for European Jewry, with consultation of the local Jewish communities across the continent.

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European Jewish orgs. call on all parties in Israel to 'pursue dialogue'

The organizations call "for all sides to push back from the brink and to seek solutions based on non-violence, justice and collective responsibility towards all the citizens of Israel."

Former chief rabbi of Moscow and President of the Conference of European Rabbis Pinchas Goldschmidt is pictured during an interview with Reuters in a hotel in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2016

Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi appointed senior role in European rabbis org

Mizrachi said that representatives of the CER “asked me to be the president of the rebbetzin training program on behalf of the CER.”

 Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi speaks to orthodox Jewish women at the Public Security Ministry offices in Jerusalem

Belgian lawmakers scrap bill to ban kosher, halal slaughter in Brussels

A ban in Brussels would have had Belgium join a handful European Union states where halal and kosher slaughter of animals are totally illegal.

Members of the European Parliament buy beef at a butcher shop in Brussels, last month.

The Conference of European Rabbis hold its 32nd General Convention

Rabbis from both Russia and Ukraine attended the Convention, and received support and inspiration.

A panel at the 32nd General Convention of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in Munich, Germany.

Pray Ukraine War will not become nuclear war - Moscow Chief Rabbi

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) hosted its 32nd General Convention at the Westin Grand Hotel Munich, Germany.

Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt (left) at the gala event of the annual conference of the Conference for European Rabbis in Munich, Germany

European rabbis prepare to reopen synagogues with social-distancing rules

Jewish communities in several countries, including Germany, Austria, and even Italy, are now reading themselves to begin communal religious life again

Jewish district in Antwerp.

Rabbis mourn lack of tolerance in Sweden after anti-circumcision vote

Last week, the Swedish Center Party voted by a majority of 314-166 at its annual meeting to work to fight the non-medical circumcision of boys.

Rabbi Moshe Wiseberg, a "mohel", or ritual circumciser, holds a baby after circumcising him in Jerusalem

Fighting for equality - Rabbis demand the addition of kippah-wearing emoji

"We request the creation of a new emoji that will symbolize the Jewish religion, either a woman wearing a hat, a person wearing a kippah, or even an emoji of Torah books."

The new hijab emoji.