Arie Zeev Raskin

Arie Zeev Raskin

Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, born in 1976, is the chief rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years. cite web |title=First synagogue opens in Cyprus |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/eastern_europe/2788 | accessdate=2007-07-24 ]

He moved to Cyprus in 2003 with his wife Shaindel and their children in an effort to introduce Jewish life onto the island.cite web | title=A mediterannean congregation |url=http://www.jewishindependent.ca/archives/April05/archives05Apr15-09.html | accessdate=2007-07-24] He had previously lived in Kiryat Malachi in Israel. He is a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. In Cyprus, he set up a Chabad house in Larnaca, close to the international airport, to serve around 300 Jewish families on the island, as well as Jewish travellers and tourists.

Rabbi Raskin and his family live in the Larnaca Synagogue, which also houses a dining room, English and Hebrew library, and a kindergarten. Other activities at the Centre include a wide variety of classes and programmes designed to reach all ages and levels of Jewish learning. Activities include Discussion groups on Jewish issues, weekly Talmud and Torah study groups, special Jewish holiday programmes, Jewish email services and a website, Shabbat meals and tourist assistance. Rabbi Raskin was crowned as the official Rabbi of Cyprus on Monday 12th September 2005, at the dedication ceremony of the Centre which was performed by Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger and a representative of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Reverend Weissman. In the synagogue, Rabbi Raskin was draped with a tallit and officially took on the leadership of the Cyprus Jewish community. Other guests at the ceremony included the Israeli ambassador at the time, Zvi Cohen-Litant, Rabbi Moshe J. Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of the Lubavitch educational division at Lubavitch World Headquarters, the Cypriot Education and Culture minister Pefkois Georgiades, and Larnaca’s deputy mayor Alexis Michaelides as well as members of the government, politicians, diplomats and other local leaders.cite web | title=Rabbi Raskin, A Chabad Emissary, To Be Named Rabbi Of Cyprus Jewish Community |url=http://www.kosherdelight.com/KDMagSep_10_05RabbiRaskinCyprus.shtml | accessdate=2007-07-24 ]

By 2006 the building of Mikva ("ritual pool") Mei Menachem was completed, and a summer centre in Ayia Napa and the Cyprus International Jewish School were opened. "Our primary goal is to improve the quality of Jewish life for every Jew in Cyprus: the moral values and rich traditions that Judaism has to offer are things that no Jew should be deprived of." Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin - Rabbi of Cyprus." [ [http://www.jewishcyprus.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/99716/jewish/About-Us.htm About Us] Chabad Lubavitch of Cyprus]

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