It has been 100 years since the position of military rabbi in Germany has been filled, which has now been appointed to Hungarian rabbi, Zsolt Balla, azonnali.hu reports.
Ever since the First World War, there hasn’t been a rabbi within the German armed forces (Bundeswehr). After the German parliament voted last year to allow rabbis back into Germany’s military, the Central Council of Jews in Germany recommended Hungarian-born Balla to take on the duty.
Zsolt Balla was born in Hungary in 1979, and studied engineering in Budapest. He has lived in Germany since 2002, and in 2009, he completed his rabbinical studies. For the past eleven years he has been working as the municipal rabbi of Leipzig. Since 2019, he has also been serving as the chief rabbi of Saxony. In addition, Balla was one of the first two Orthodox rabbis to have graduated and appointed in Germany since 1938.
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