Pynchas Brener

Pynchas Brener is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi^[1][2] of Caracas, Venezuela, starting in 1967. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University and his Master's degree from Columbia University, and is a PhD honoris causa of Bar Ilan University.^[3]

Brener is a president of the Committee of Liaisons between Churches and Synagogues in Venezuela and member of the Board of Directors of Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of several books about Judaism, including El Diálogo Eterno, Las Escrituras: Hombres e Ideas, and Fe y Razón, all published by the World Zionist Organization's Department for Education and Culture in the Diaspora. He has also written Tradición y Actualidad and Luto y Consuelo, published by Editorial Boker, and La fe y la Intuición, published by Monte Ávila Editores in Caracas. He also co-edited with Marianne Beker and Thea Segal, the book Las sinagogas se abren al mundo^[4]

He is also a regular columnist in the Venezuelan newspapers such as El Nacional,^[5] El Universal^[6] and the Venezuelan Jewish community weekly newspaper Nuevo Mundo Israelita.

He is a classmate and close friend of Rabbi Arthur Schneier of Park East Synagogue, and he was a friend of Herbert Pollock when Pollock was a student in Yeshiva University in the late 1940s.

He has an internet project and a website: www.pynchasbrener.com

References

1. VENEZUELA 2004. The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. Tel Aviv University
2. Páscoa: Venezuela celebra II Seder Interconfessional. AMISRAEL (Portuguese)
3. Unión Israelita de Caracas: Rabinos (Spanish)
4. Mujeres del Tercer Milenio (Spanish)
5. El Nacional. Editorial Boker (Spanish)
6. El Universal. Editorial Boker (Spanish)