Pinchas Toledano


Dr Pinchas Toledano is Hakham-Emeritus of Amsterdam and of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands. He was also the official Chief Rabbi of the Beth Din in The Netherlands.

Background

He attended various yeshivot in England and Israel, receiving semikha at age 20. In 1969 he received a BA Hons in Semitics from London University. In 1980 he received a PhD from London University.
In 1974 he was appointed Dayan of the Sephardi Community of London and in 1980 was Av Bet Din. In 1998, he was appointed Dayan of the Dutch Sephardi Beth Din. He was appointed as Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese community of the Netherlands in 2012.. Since 2020 he is Hakham-Emeritus.

Works