Angel Kreiman Brill

Angel Kreiman Brill is the Chief Rabbi of Chile, Director of the International Council of Christians and Jews in Latin America and the International Vice President of the World Council of Synagogues.

He was born in Buenos Aires into a secular Jewish family. He graduated as a Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Sciences in the Seminar Morim of Buenos Aires (1963) and as a Rabbi in the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminar (1968). He married Susy Wolinsky in 1969. In 1975 he obtained a Degree in Right at the Free University of Barranquilla, Colombia. He moved to Santiago in the 1970s. In 1990 after a series of scandals, Kreiman left Chile and moved to Buenos Aires with his family. His wife was killed in the 1994 AMIA bombing. [cite web
url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7DC143EF932A15754C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
title= Argentina's Jews Cry for Their Torn Heart
last= Brooke
first= James
accessdate = 2008-01-01
date = July 21, 1994
publisher = "New York Times"] In 1995, Kreiman returned to Chile and is currently situated in the southern city of Concepción.

Works

*"Tesoros de La Tradicion Judia" (May 1997)

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