Moscow rabbi at White House: "American support will help European Jews"

In order to recruit senior members of the American administration to support the struggle for the preservation of religious freedom in Europe, the President of the Conference of European Rabbis and the Av Beit Din of Moscow, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, arrived at the White House in Washington, D.C.

David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuva Israel

05/07/2022

Tuesday, 05 July 2022, 16:32 Updated: 16:36

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President of the European Rabbinical Conference, Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Moscow, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at the White House in Washington (Photo: PR)

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis and Rabbi Av Beit Din of Moscow, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, arrived at the White House in Washington to recruit senior members of the US administration to support the struggle for the preservation of religious freedom in Europe. The International Freedom of Religion Summit (IRF), where it presented the main damage that could be caused as a result of restrictions on the religious freedom of Jewish communities in Europe.

At the center of its activity;

Stopping the amendment to the Animal Welfare Act in Finland that would restrict kosher slaughter and legislative initiatives to extend the prohibitions on slaughter training in other provinces in Belgium.

Count Goldschmidt met at the White House with Mr. Hanan Weissman, Presidential Representative of the American Jewish Community and Director of Global Partnerships at the National Security Council.

President of the European Rabbinical Conference, Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Moscow, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at the White House in Washington (Photo: PR)

Another meeting with senior State Department officials attended;

Mr. Mark b.

Levin of the National Coalition of Eurasian Jewry NCSEJ and Rabbi Aharon Kotler, former president of the Highwood High School in Lakewood.

Ms. Deborah Lipstadt, Special Envoy for the Surveillance and War on Anti-Semitism, and Mr. Aaron J. Kayak, Deputy Special Envoy for the Surveillance and War on Anti-Semitism at the US State Department.

During the meeting, the three stressed to the emissary that it was important for the US administration to focus on legislative issues currently on the agenda in Europe that endanger the religious freedom of Jewish communities across the continent, as well as the situation of Jews in Russia and Ukraine.

Ms. Goldschmidt and Mr. Levin also discussed these issues in a meeting with Congressman Christopher H. Smith and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin.

President of the European Rabbinical Conference, Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Moscow, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at the White House in Washington (Photo: PR)

Count Goldschmidt said: 'Hopefully political support from the US will help us ensure that European Jews are allowed to live freely as Jews on the European continent and can maintain the Jewish way of life which also includes kosher slaughter and circumcision by law.

In order to live as Jews we must have the freedom to live according to our belief that is in real danger. The various parliaments in Europe have passed laws that harm the Jewish communities in their countries. Essential in the fabric of European society - the time has come for the deeds to reflect the words and the right to freely exercise his faith in Europe will be respected and enshrined in law.

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