Aryeh Stern is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel, and the chief editor of the Halacha Brura and Berur Halacha Institute.
12 Facts About Aryeh Stern
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Aryeh Stern was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv, and studied at the HaYishuv HaChadash yeshiva, led by Rabbi Yehuda Kolodetsky.
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Aryeh Stern fought in the Six-Day War in the Combat Engineering Corps, and in the Yom Kippur War.
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Aryeh Stern was the head of Hadrom high school yeshiva in Rehovot, and was one of the founders of the Ma'aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts for the religious-national sector in 1989.
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Aryeh Stern has worked in the organization of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's House in Jerusalem, an active museum of Kook's life, and in the establishment of the Merchavim Institute for training teachers and religious educators.
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Aryeh Stern has written hundreds of Halachic responsa and religious-philosophical articles regarding Jewish thought.
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Aryeh Stern is congregational rabbi at the Har Horev synagogue in the Katamon neighborhood in Jerusalem.
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Aryeh Stern was elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem on 22 October 2014.
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Aryeh Stern was elected by a majority vote of 27 of the 48 representatives from the city's synagogues, city councils, and voters appointed by then-Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett.
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Aryeh Stern had been elected the candidate of the Religious Zionism sector in 2009.
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Aryeh Stern faced motions in the Supreme Court to disqualify him from running due to an expired rabbinical certificate, and an attempt to postpone the elections until after his seventieth birthday when he would become ineligible to submit his candidacy.
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On 28 December 2014, Aryeh Stern was appointed by President Reuven Rivlin as a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel.