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Menachem Mendel Glitzstein

Chief Rabbi of Chernivtsi

 

Menachem Mendel Glitzstein was born on August 1, 1979 (Av 8, 5739) in Jerusalem in the family of the envoy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - hereditary rabbi Israel Zvi and his wife Feiga Glitzstein. The family later moved to Eilat, where Menachem Mendl went to elementary school at the age of 6, and at the age of 12 he went to study in Jerusalem, where he completed the first degree of Torat Emet in 1995.

From 16 to 19 years old he studied at Kfar Chabad in the Higher Yeshiva, from 20 to 23 years old at the New York Yeshiva of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - the Higher Educational Institution for the Training of Rabbis.

In 2002 he got married. Wife - Pnina Pearl (b. 11 Cheshvan 5741), one of the five daughters of Rabbi Shmoel Shnur of Migdal-Eimik. Now the Glitzstein family has six daughters and a son.

In 2003, at the request of the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and the envoy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Western Ukraine, as well as the leaders of the Jewish community of Chernivtsi, he was sent to Bukovina as the Chief Rabbi of the Chernivtsi region. In 2004, he organized the creation of a Jewish community, the restoration of the synagogue (now the Main Synagogue of Bukovina named after Israel and Zelda Mayberg), and later the development of the Jewish Center in Chernivtsi. With the arrival of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Glitzshtein, Jewish life in the Chernivtsi region came to life and was filled with all its inherent traditions and bright events.

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