Yehuda Weissler

Rabbi
Yehuda Weissler
TitleChief Rabbi of Siberia
Personal life
Born (1969-03-07) 7 March 1969
Manchester, England
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Rabbi Yehuda Weissler, born 1969 in Manchester U.K is a British Rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of Siberia and Novosibirsk Oblast in the 1990s.[1][2]

Rabbi Yehuda Weissler, winter 1993, upon his arrival in Siberia at the Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport.

Weissler together with his wife Mirelle and their son Shmuli moved to Novosibirsk, the capital city of Siberia in December 1993.[3][4]

Rabbi Yehuda Weissler delivering his inaugural address in a Novosibirsk community center in January 1994.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Chief Rabbi Weissler was involved in reestablishing Jewish communal life in Novosibirsk, including synagogue services and educational programs for Jewish youth.[5][6][7][8][9]

Rabbi Weissler was also reported to have addressed the European Agudath Israel Convention in Bournemouth, UK in 1995 regarding the growth and welfare of Jewish communities in Siberia and the former Soviet Union.[10][11]

Biography

He studied Talmud and Jewish theology at the Manchester and Gateshead Yeshiva and later in Israel at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. [12][13]

References

  1. ↑ Moskalenko, Olgo (August 11, 1994). "A Rabbi in Siberia is more than a Rabbi". Moldoya Sibir.
  2. ↑ Permina, Sergei (November 8, 1994). "The Chief Rabbi of Siberia is in Novosibirsk". Vecherni Novosibirsk.
  3. ↑ Kazis, Deborah (1995). "The Rabbi who rekindled Yiddishkeit in Siberia". The Jewish Telegraph.
  4. ↑ "Far From Moscow, Part 2". www.jta.org. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. May 29, 1995.
  5. ↑ Paikin Abramson, Shifra (September 1995). "The Big Thaw - Siberia's Jews Four Years After Communism's Meltdown". Good Fortune Magazine.
  6. ↑ Galo, W. (August 1994). "Bris celebrated sixty years late". Jewish Tribune.
  7. ↑ "Great Work in Siberia". Jewish Tribune. March 10, 1994.
  8. ↑ Dmitriyenka, I. (October 12, 1994). "A Visit to Birobizhan, A Presentation To The Jews". Birobizhaner Shtern.
  9. ↑ Avan, L. (September 14, 1994). "A unique briss in Siberia". Jewish Tribune.
  10. ↑ Weissler, Rabbi Yehuda (May 12, 1994). "There is still Hope in the Siberian Gulag". Jewish Tribune.
  11. ↑ Stern, Dovid (May 11, 1995). "European Agudah Convention - Russian Jewry Reborn". Jewish Tribune.
  12. ↑ Wachmann, Doreen (November 4, 1994). "Rabbi Brings Judaism to Siberia's Frozen Wastes". Jewish Telegraph.
  13. ↑ Avreimi Perlstein (October 8, 2014). "Excitement: Chief Rabbi of Siberia Visits Israel". bhp.co.il. BHOL.
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