Slomó Köves is the current Executive Rabbi of EMIH Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (in Hungarian: EMIH Egységes Magyarországi Izraelita Hitközség) an affiliate of Chabad Lubavitch in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. Chabad Lubavitch in Hungary is led by Rabbi Baruch Oberlander.

Köves graduated from the Yeshiva High School

Jewish day school

A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time...

 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the Institut Superieur D’études Rabbiniques et Talmudiques

Tomchei Temimim

Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...

 and the Central Lubavitch Yeshivot

Tomchei Temimim

Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...

 (New York). He received a Ph. D. from the University of Debrecen

University of Debrecen

The University of Debrecen is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary .-History:...

, in history, in 2007.

External links

• Hungary's first Orthodox rabbi since Holocaust takes office
• Jewish News
• European Jewish Press
• http://zsido.com/szoveg/English/42 (The official English web site of the Lubavitch community of Budapest)