{"id":1456,"date":"2009-06-03T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2009\/06\/first-orthodox-rabbis-ordained.php"},"modified":"2009-06-03T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:42:57","slug":"first-orthodox-rabbis-ordained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2009\/06\/first-orthodox-rabbis-ordained","title":{"rendered":"First Orthodox Rabbis Ordained in Germany Since Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) Germany saw the ordination of its own Orthodox rabbis on Tuesday (June 2), a first in the more than six decades since the Nazi Holocaust and World War II.<br \/>\nBroadcast live on German television, the historic ordination of Zsolt Balla, 30, and Avraham Radbill, 25, signals a slowly reviving German Jewry, which once faced near extinction at the hands of the Nazi regime.<br \/>\nThe graduates, educated at the new Orthodox seminary Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin, officially became rabbis at Munich&#8217;s Ohel Jacob Synagogue, according to news reports from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).<br \/>\nRabbi Steven Burg, the New York-based director of the National Council of Synagogue Youth, attended the ceremony, having met Balla and Radbill when the two came to the United States to take a three-week course on kosher law.<br \/>\nCalling the ceremony &#8220;absolutely historic&#8221; and &#8220;very moving,&#8221; Burg also highlighted the growing German Jewish community, buoyed by an influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. 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