RCE News

Boys from Germany, Spain, Ukraine and Russia celebrated their Bar Mitzvah and received Tefillin during an emotional ceremony on Thursday Feb. 27th at the Western Wall.

Rabbi Reuven Elbaz, Head of ‘Ohr HaChaim’ institutions and a member of the Rabbinical Council, will honor us with his distinguished presence and be one of the main speakers at the RCE conference celebrating its 20th anniversary in France. He has been dealing with Kiruv for 50 years.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Garelik, the Rabbi of the European Union Synagogue and the son of Rabbi Gershon Garelik, one of the RCE founders, reveals facts known by few about the founding days of the RCE and adds his opinion about the Centre today.

The conference will take place in Paris on 16-18/03.
Hundrends of European Rabbi will participate, the Chief Rabbis of Israel and distinguished guests.

The RCE completed a special delivery of 75,000 Menorahs to 560 European Jewish communities. The distribution included a Menorah, candles for the entire Chanukah holiday and a booklet translated into several languages.

The graves were discovered by professionals combined by efforts of RCE and “Oholei Tzaddikim”. As heavy snow fell at an emotional ceremony in Kozova, the mayor gave Jewish community leaders a key to the local synagogue that has been closed for 80 years.

Hundreds of Jewish children in Day Schools, Sunday Schools and afternoon clubs are discovering traditional content in honor of the upcoming Chanukah Holiday.

The Hungarian government granted formal recognition to the Orthodox Jewish community. This is the first time that they will benefit recognition since World War II.

The course was attended by dozens of Rabbanim from around Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
The Rabbanim visited the gravesite of the Chasam Sofer, and pledged to intensify Jewish activity among the youth in their community.

A moving induction ceremony was attended by President Milo Jokanovic and Israeli Minister of Religious Services, Yitzchak Vaknin.

The rabbinical delegation from the RCE participated in a memorial monument unveiling, the morning after concluding the professional Seminar. The monument was erected in the town of Sadigura nearby Chernovitch, where a mass grave with murdered Jews from the Holocaust was discovered.