One of Israel’s chief rabbis attended a ceremony in Brussels to install the new head of a fervently Orthodox community. Rabbi Menachem Haddad succeeded Rabbi Ezriel Chaikin — who recently was elected as a chief rabbi in Ukraine — in the post of chief rabbi of Brussels, according to the Rabbinical Center of Europe.
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