Yitshak Ehrenberg

Chaim Yitshak Ehrenberg ( born February 10, 1950 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Orthodox rabbi in Berlin.

Life

Ehrenberg is the son of a Hasidic family that lives in the 7th generation in Israel. At the age of five, he moved with his family from Jaffa to Bne'i Braq. After his bar mitzvah, he studied at the yeshiva Hasharon to go at the age of 16 years at the yeshiva Harey Yehuda in Moshav Bet Meir. In 1975, after a five- year study program and the activities of teaching at a Talmudic institution in Ashkelon, Ehrenberg was consecrated by the local chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim blue as a rabbi. He then returned in 1975 back to the Harey Yehuda in Beit Meir, to become a teacher there. During this time he also took an active role together with Rabbi Zvi Kahana in the administration of the yeshiva.

In 1983, Rabbi Ehrenberg moved to Vienna, Austria, where he worked as a rabbi in a Mizrachi community. In 1989, the family moved to Germany, was Ehrenberg rabbi of the Jewish community in Munich until 1997 chief rabbi of the Orthodox congregation of Berlin and thus head of the Central was Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogue in Joachimsthalerstrasse. In this capacity he also manages the mikvah, prayers, Sabbaths and much more.

Ehrenberg is a member of the Standing Committee of the Conference of European Rabbis. In 2003, Ehrenberg co-founder of ORD ( Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany ), whose goal is to ensure a continuous, facilitate the cooperation of the German rabbis development of Orthodox Jewish life in Germany. Ehrenberg was chairman of the ORD from its founding to 2010.

His wife Nechama Ehrenberg with whom he has been married since 1970, is the daughter of his mentor Rabbi Zvi Kahana ( 1922-1996 ).