Talk:Adeni Jews

1947 Aden pogrom
If this article survives in the current AfD, it will require expansion, perhaps via copying from this article per WP:CWW. Coretheapple (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Honorary title of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Hi Zero0000. Thank you for your pertinent edit here, where the title of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook as "the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Ottoman Palestine" was correctly removed. And while I wish to assure you that Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook never held the official post of chief rabbi in Ottoman Palestine, seeing that the title of "chief rabbi" (Chakham Bashi) was - up until that time, conferred upon one man of the Jewish community, and which same title had been held in succession by Sephardic Jews for that entire Ottoman period, as explained by Ernest W.G. Masterman of the Palestine Exploration Fund, in his piece entitled "The Jews in Modern Palestine," published in the journal The Biblical World, vol. 21, issue no. 1 (Jan., 1903),, and which you can read about here, pp. 26-27, it would seem, however, that Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook later assumed the title of chief Ashkenazi rabbi in Mandatory Palestine under the British, as the Wikipedia article under his name shows that he was given the title of chief rabbi in 1921, and being the first Ashkenazi rabbi in Palestine to have this title conferred upon him.Davidbena (talk) 19:35, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks David. You will be interested in the following "Public Notice" that appeared in the Palestine Gazette on April 1, 1921:
 * The Rabbinical Assembly held in Jerusalem on February 24th, 1921, Adar-Rishon 16th 5681 elected the following Rabbis as the Rabbinical Council for Palestine: Rabbi Jacob Meir and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Cohen Kook as Chief Rabbis, and Rabbis Benjamin Alkosser, Benzion Koenka, and Abraham Pilosoph as Sephardic members, and Rabbis Zevi Pesah Frank, Yonah Raam and Fischel Bernstein as Ashkenazic members of the Council. Doctor M. Eliash, Mr. M. Levanon, and Mr. J. H. Panigel were elected as lay councillors to the Rabbinical Council. The Government of Palestine will recognize the Council and any Beth-Din sanctioned by it as the sole authorities in matters of Jewish Law. It will execute through the Civil Courts judgments given by the Beth-Din of the Council in first instance or on appeal as well as the judgments given by any Beth-Din in Palestine sanctioned by the Council. The appointment of Haham Bashi no longer exists in Palestine; and no person is recognized by the Government as a Chief-Rabbi of Palestine except the Rabbis elected by the Assembly. W. H. DEEDES, Civil Secretary, Government House, March 18th, 1921.

Zerotalk 01:36, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, indeed, that was very interesting! It seems that the Mandatory government in Palestine did away with the Ottoman precedent of "chief rabbi" known as the Hakham Bashi. Rabbi Jacob Meir would have been the chief Sephardic Rabbi, while Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook the chief Ashkenazi Rabbi. Davidbena (talk) 01:47, 7 December 2021 (UTC)