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Place of Birth: Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Gilles Bernheim
- Gilles Uriel Bernheim (French pronunciation: ?[?il y.?j?l b??.n?m]; born 30 May 1952) is a French rabbi who was formerly the Chief Rabbi of France.
- Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, in 1952, he was elected by the general assembly of the Central Consistory chief rabbi of France on 22 June 2008, for a seven-year mandate starting from 1 January 2009.
- Until then, he had been rabbi of synagogue de la Victoire, the main synagogue in Paris, since 1 May 1997.
- The Chief Rabbi of France was respected as a scholar not only in the Jewish community but in the wider academic world.
- However, he resigned as chief rabbi in April 2013 before his term had ended, amid revelations of plagiarism and deception about his academic credentials. He succeeded chief rabbi Joseph Sitruk.
- He was very critical of the lifting of the excommunication of bishop Richard Williamson.The French Government appointed him Knight [Chevalier] in the Légion d'honneur, on 10 April 2009.
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