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A panel discussion at the Conference of European Rabbis, January 27, 2026 (D.V.A. Productions)
February 13, 2026, 9:46 am
European rabbis bemoan antisemitism, brainstorm sustainability at Jerusalem confab
Shifted from Baku due to security concerns, conference hosts 300 Orthodox leaders who see mounting challenges amid communal survival on the Continent after Oct. 7
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024 in Aachen, western Germany. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
February 7, 2026, 6:20 am
Leading rabbi says he rejected mass Russian conversion plan mulled in Epstein audio
After ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak heard backing engineering demographics, exiled Moscow chief rabbi reveals former minister asked him about matter, says it sounded ‘extremely racist’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (left) seen after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024, in Aachen, western Germany. (Ina Fassbender/AFP); Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun arrives at a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, November 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
January 24, 2026, 6:36 am
US antisemitism envoy feuds with prominent European rabbi, drawing praise from Elon Musk
Pinchas Goldschmidt attributes rise of far right ‘to the insecurity felt by the so-called old Europeans’ over Mideast migrants, as Yehuda Kaploun says mass migration to blame for growing Jew hatred
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Crescent Development Project in Baku, Azerbaijan (iStock by Getty Images)
October 29, 2025, 7:41 am
Rabbis convention in Azerbaijan canceled over security concerns
Conference of European Rabbis event, the first of its kind in a Muslim country, was expected to attract hundreds of participants
By Zev Stub
The Swissotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Google Maps)
June 13, 2025, 2:26 pm
Meeting of European rabbis in Sarajevo canceled after anti-Israel pressure
Bosnian minister says conference ‘a message of legitimization of the occupation and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people’; Swissotel cites security concerns
By Shira Li Bartov
The author Herman Brusselmans is seen at a soccer game in Gent, Belgium, in February 2016. (VI Images via Getty Images/JTA)
August 9, 2024, 8:18 am
Belgian author sued for writing he wants to ram ‘knife through throat of every Jew I meet’
Herman Brusselmans declares he is filled with rage every time he sees a Jew on the street due to war in Gaza; he and magazine defend article as satirical
By Shira Li Bartov
Pinchas Goldschmidt, a Swiss-born rabbi and Jewish community leader, is pictured after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024 in Aachen, western Germany. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
June 24, 2024, 4:50 pm
Ex-chief rabbi of Moscow blames Russian government neglect for Dagestan attack
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who fled Russia in 2022, says Putin’s government is focused on repressing dissent, not national security, after 19 killed in terror attack
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt poses for media while rabbis from across Europe attend the 32nd General Convention in Munich, Germany, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
January 20, 2024, 3:51 am
German city awards European unity prize to leading rabbi and continent’s Jewry
Aachen gives 2024 Charlemagne award to Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and European Jewish communities to ‘send a signal that… there must be no place for antisemitism in Europe’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Red paint is seen smeared on the facade of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center in Yerevan, Armenia, following a suspected antisemitic incident on October 3, 2023. (CER)
October 4, 2023, 5:30 pm
Synagogue vandalized in Armenia, apparently over Israeli-Azeri ties
‘The Jews are the sworn enemies of the Armenian state,’ reads text that circulates after red paint poured on Yerevan’s only Jewish center
By Canaan Lidor
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. (CER)
September 20, 2023, 11:44 am
Orthodox European rabbinical group finds a home in Munich, with new funding
After decamping post-Brexit UK, the Conference of European Rabbis becomes first major international Jewish group to open its headquarters in Germany since the Holocaust
By Canaan Lidor
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt poses for media while rabbis from across Europe attend the 32nd General Convention in Munich, Germany, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
July 2, 2023, 3:52 am
Russia brands exiled former Moscow chief rabbi a ‘foreign agent’
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who served as chief rabbi for some 30 years and left Russia two weeks after it invaded Ukraine, says he’s ‘proud to be on the right side of history’
By ToI Staff and AP
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder (center) receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis, while standing alongside CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (right) and Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, in Munich, May 9, 2023. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 12:19 pm
Brexit forces European rabbinical group to decamp for Munich
Conference of European Rabbis has planned move from London for years, viewing need for its offices to be in heart of Europe; organization’s head says Germany is ideal location
By Toby Axelrod
Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)
April 17, 2023, 11:58 pm
Antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Barcelona’s largest synagogue
Vandals spray-paint ‘Free Palestine from the river to the sea,’ leave letters accusing Israel of ‘genocide’; rabbi blames Spanish city’s mayor for suspending twinning with Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief of the Conference of European Rabbis, at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, file)
January 1, 2023, 12:53 pm
Exiled Moscow chief rabbi: Jews should leave Russia before they are scapegoated
Amid rising antisemitism, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt warns that historical precedent indicates Jewish community will be blamed for country’s problems
By Ash Obel
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev speaks at a trilateral summit with Israel and the United States at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton\Flash90)
October 28, 2022, 5:13 pm
Top Russian security official apologizes after deputy calls Chabad a cult
Spokesman for Russian Jewish community says he appreciates the retraction, notes historical rarity of a Russian general apologizing for antisemitism
By Judah Ari Gross
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