Pinchas Goldschmidt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pinchas Goldschmidt
Occupation	Rabbi
Date Of Birth	Jul 21, 1963(1963-07-21)
Age	61
Birthplace	Zürich
Country	Switzerland
Horoscope	Cancer

Pinchas Goldschmidt Biography

Pinchas Goldschmidt is one of the most popular and richest Rabbi who was born on July 21, 1963 in Zürich, Switzerland. Pinchas Goldschmidt, born 21 July 1963, is the Chief Rabbi of Moscow. He currently serves as the Moscow Choral Synagogue. Since 1989, he has been the chief Rabbi of Moscow in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He is also the President of the Conference of European Rabbis. This conference unites more than seven hundred communal rabbis across Europe from Khabarovsk to Dublin.

Rabbi Goldschmidt was certified as a candidate for the position of Chief Rabbi in Israel, or in one of the Israeli cities by the Council of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. This certification was awarded in 2002. Rabbi Goldschmidt has seven children and is married.

In January 2005, five hundred people, including newspaper editors, public intellectuals and 19 Duma deputies published an appeal to the Prosecutor General of Russia. The petitioners called for the closure of Jewish organized life in Russia. A subsequent television call-in show, during which 100,000 people phoned in, revealed that 54% of the participants supported the idea of banning all Jewish organizations in Russia. Goldschmidt wrote a detailed response to all the accusations and addressed the letter to Dmitriy Rogozin, leader of the nationalist Rodina (Motherland) party, who, after receiving Goldschmidt’s letter, apologized and distanced himself from the petition.

In the spring of 2009, Goldschmidt was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center in Harvard.

Pinchas Goldschmidt is a key figure in the Russian Jewish community. He was born in Zurich in Switzerland and has been Chief Rabbi of Moscow since 1993. He is the spiritual leader of the Moscow central synagogue and founded and leads the Moscow Rabbinical Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States. He is a prominent figure in the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia (a large umbrella organization of Russian Jewish communities). He created the guidelines with the Israeli Ministry of Interior in 1990 to confirm Jews who had hidden their Jewish identity during Soviet times.

Pinchas Goldschmidt Net Worth

Pinchas Goldschmidt is one of the richest Rabbi from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pinchas Goldschmidt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Goldschmidt has a rabbinical ordination and an MA from Ner Israel Rabbinical College. He also holds a MS from Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Ponevezh yeshiva (1979-1981), Telshe yeshiva (1981-1982), Shevet Umechokek Institute for Rabbinical Judges, Chicago, Il (1981-1982), and Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research in Jerusalem, Israel (1986-1987). He has published articles on Jewish law post-Soviet Jewry, as well as responsas containing a compilation Russian Jewish names called “Zikaron Basefer”, (Moscow 1996).

Goldschmidt arrived in Russia in 1989 and played an important role in the re- establishing of Jewish life and the communal structures of the community, including schools and kindergartens, a Jewish court, a burial society and kosher restaurants and soup kitchens. He also helped to create political umbrella structures such as the Russian Jewish Congress and the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia.

Goldschmidt was deported from Russia during September 2005, but was allowed to return to the community after three months, after an international campaign. In 2010 by special order of Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, he was made a citizen of Russia. He takes an active part in interfaith dialogue gatherings with Christians and Muslims in New York, Paris, Astana, Seville, Vienna and Moscow.

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The Jerusalem Post in its yearly list of the fifty most influential Jews in the world, in 2018 placed Rabbi Goldschmidt on 31st place.

Facts & Trivia

Pinchas Ranked on the list of most popular Rabbi. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Pinchas Goldschmidt celebrates birthday on July 21 of every year.