TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Rossella Tercatin
January 24, 2015

Unlike the ongoing economical crisis shaking Europe, the winter in Greece is relatively mild. The brighter than usual January sun casts a warm Mediterranean light over Athens as the city’s new chief rabbi Gabriel Negrin, 26, drives from place to place to visit community members. “The city is huge and getting around takes a really long time. But the people of the community are so happy having the rabbi coming to their homes that is totally worth it,” he tells The Times of Israel. Negrin is very young and very busy, two things that you can’t help but notice at the beginning of any conversation with him. Although appointed the Chief Rabbi of Athens last spring (a title that in fact includes not only the capital of Greece itself, but the whole country, roughly 5,000 Jews), he officially took office on January 1, 2015. READ MORE