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After 6 Decades Romanian City Gets a Rov
by Yated Ne'eman Correspondent
History in Romania: After over 60 years without a rov to oversee and
strengthen religious affairs in the city of Iasi, one of the country's
largest, a rov was appointed to the city and the entire province by
HaRav Yoel Tobias, the rov of Shikun Vov in Bnei Brak and chairman of
the Union of Former Romanian Rabbis in Eretz Yisroel.
To handle the many responsibilities the post entails requires a rov
who speaks Romanian and who will work with the Jewish community
throughout the area. For many years HaRav Tobias has worked to
strengthen religious affairs throughout Romania, particularly in Iasi,
where he set up mikvo'os and human infrastructures of observant
residents and lomdei Torah as well as a daily gemora class for
college students. Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania
President Orea Wiener worked in the kehilloh itself and within
the Federation to reinstate his brother, HaRav Shlomo Tobias, who was
born in Romania and studied at Yeshivas Rozhin, Yeshivas Ohel Yaakov,
Kollel Tzanz and Kollel Athena, as rov of Iasi. He was given semichah
by HaRav Yisroel Aryeh Zalmanovitz, the rov of Acco, HaRav Avrohom
Tzvi Weiss, the rov of Bnei Brak's Neveh Achiezer neighborhood, and
HaRav Shmuel Boruch Werner, av beis din of Tel Aviv.
"There was a lot of siyata deShmaya," HaRav Tobias told a
reporter from the Hebrew-language Yated Ne'eman. "From the
start we arranged the fundamentals: inspecting shechitoh,
operating mikvo'os, arranging for wedding ceremonies to adhere to
halacha. Appointing a rov is one of the first things that must be done
in any Jewish community."
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