For the first time since the war, four people in Germany
became geirim on the same day. They came from Munich,
Krefeld and Bad Nauheim and the formal procedure took place
in Munich.
The Central Beth Din of Germany undertook the rites under
the auspices of the Conference of European Rabbis. This
newly formed body which is now fully operational has
recently been involved with gittin and geirut
in Germany. The body provides a fully centralized rabbinate
which now enjoys international recognition from rabbinical
bodies throughout the world.
Dayan Ch. Ehrentreu and Rabbi M. Rose of the CER, who both
participated and were involved in all the procedures,
expressed their satisfaction for the co-operation and
support they had received from their German colleagues and
from the German Jewish community.
With the enormous growth of the German Jewish community
during the past years due to emigration from the former
Soviet Union, it had become essential to centralize a fully
internationally recognized German rabbinate in order to cope
with the growing demand for rabbinic intervention involving
the full range of halachic issues. It was for this reason
that the CER successfully structured this new joint
rabbinate.
