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Yitshak Ehrenberg

Yitshak Ehrenberg is an Israeli-born Orthodox rabbi who has served as the Orthodox community rabbi of Berlin since 1997.

born 1950Orthodox rabbi of BerlinFormer rabbi of MunichCo-founding Germany's Orthodox Rabbinical Conference

Born: 10 February 1950, Jerusalem
Occupation: rabbi

Yitshak Ehrenberg was born in 1950 in Jerusalem

Ehrenberg was born in Jerusalem on February 10, 1950, to parents from Hasidic families with deep roots in Israel. When he was 5, the family moved from Jaffa to Bnei Brak, where he grew up. His father worked in the diamond processing business, and he was the second of three sons.

After his bar mitzvah he studied at Yeshivat Hasharon, and at 16 he joined the Harey Yehuda yeshiva in Beit Meir. Its head and founder, Rabbi Tzvi Kahana, became his main mentor and later his father-in-law. In 1970 he married Nechama, Kahana's eldest daughter, and the couple moved to Ashkelon.

In 1975 he was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Blau in Ashkelon. He then returned to Harey Yehuda to teach and helped run the yeshiva with Rabbi Kahana.

In 1983 he moved to Vienna to serve as rabbi of the Mizrachi community until 1989. He then served as rabbi of Munich, and since 1997 he has been the Orthodox community rabbi of Berlin. In 2003 he co-founded the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference of Germany and chaired it until 2010.