Azriel Chaikin

Azriel Chaikin
Azriel Chaikin
	Azriel Haikin praying in 770 Eastern Parkway synagogue in 2017
Born	1938; Russia USSR
Occupation	Chief Rabbi, Chabad movement in Ukraine and recognized halakhic authority
Title	Chief Rabbi of Ukraine

Azriel Chaikin (Hebrew עזריאל חייקין ; born USSR, 1938) is a Brussels-based leader of the Chabad movement of Judaism in Ukraine. In 2003, he was proclaimed chief rabbi of Ukraine by all of Chabad rabbis in Ukraine.^[1]^[2]

Life[]

Rabbi Chaikin was born in the USSR in 1938 to his father Meir Chaim Chaikin.

In 1955 Chaikin went on shlichus to Morocco and was the head of the Chabad Yeshiva in Agadir. Because the language taught in the schools under his auspices was Hebrew, he was accused of being a Zionist, and therefore left Morocco and moved to France. From France he moved to Denmark where he established a Chabad yeshiva.

In 1968 Rabbi Chaikin was offered a prestigious rabbinic position in Brussels, Belgium which he accepted. Because of this position he became an influential rabbinic figure in Europe.

He later on received the position of chief Rabbi of Ukraine which he attained until 2008. Afterwards he moved to the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.

References[]

^ Keating, Joshua (5 March 2014). "How Many 'Chief Rabbis' Does Ukraine Have?". Slate. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
^ Singer, David; Grossman, Lawrence (2006). American Jewish Year Book 2006. p. 530. Since 2003, another Chabad rabbi, the Brussels-based Azriel Haikin, had been accepted as chief rabbi by the FJC rabbis. Yet another Orthodox rabbi, Ya'akov Dov Bleich, had served as Ukraine's chief rabbi since the early 1990s.

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[1] Keating, Joshua (5 March 2014). "How Many 'Chief Rabbis' Does Ukraine Have?". Slate. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

[2] Singer, David; Grossman, Lawrence (2006). American Jewish Year Book 2006. p. 530. Since 2003, another Chabad rabbi, the Brussels-based Azriel Haikin, had been accepted as chief rabbi by the FJC rabbis. Yet another Orthodox rabbi, Ya'akov Dov Bleich, had served as Ukraine's chief rabbi since the early 1990s.

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Azriel Chaikin
Azriel Haikin praying in 770 Eastern Parkway synagogue in 2017
Born	1938 Russia USSR
Occupation	Chief Rabbi, Chabad movement in Ukraine and recognized halakhic authority
Title	Chief Rabbi of Ukraine