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Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was born and raised in Amsterdam. The first members of the Jacobs family were already in the Netherlands around 1400. After his Gymnasium Exams and a study of 8 years at the Ecole Rabbinique of Paris, the Lubavitcher Talmudic High School of Brooklyn and the Talmud College of the Negev (Israel) he returned to the Netherlands in 1975, to devote himself to Dutch Jewry. Rabbi Jacobs is the Chief Rabbi of the Interprovinciaal Opperrabbinaat, chairman of the Rabbinical Council for the Netherlands and the chaplain of the Sinai Centre in Amstelveen, the only Jewish psychiatric hospital in Europe. He is on the board of the RCE, the Rabbinical Centre of Europe.
Chief Rabbi in the Netherlands
Learn a beautiful teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in loving memory of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The source text is a sicha for parshat Vayechi from Likkutei Sichos vol.10—as adapted by Rabbi Sacks in his book “Torah Studies”. This sicha is being studied wo...
Had I gone along on this trip, I would have been smeared by association, and certainly would never been appointed chief rabbi of the Netherlands. It was the Rebbe’s guidance that truly saved me.
History of the Jewish communities of the Netherlands
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, chief rabbi of the Netherlands, describes the rich history of the Jewish people in his native country from medieval times until the present day.
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