Rabbi P. Padwa

Rabbi Pinchas Padwa was born in London to his father Rabbi Joseph Padwa.

He is a member of the third generation to the famous Padwa dynasty, based in London and headed by his grandfather Rabbi H.B. Padwa, the head of the orthodox community in England.

Rabbi P. Padwa studied practical rabbinic law and Jewish Theology under the guidance of his grandfather at the Talmudic center and college in London and later in Jerusalem at the international College of Belz.

In 1983 he was married in Zürich in Switzerland and continued his studies at the well known Zürich Kollel.

In 1993 he received his rabbinic diploma from the Rabbinic court of Belz in Israel and bestowing upon him the title Rabbi.

In 1994 he was appointed as the Rabbi of the Belz community in Zürich and as the Kosher Administrator to the Israelitische Religions Geselschaft in Zürich. Here he enjoyed the support of its Rabbi, the famous Rabbi Daniel Levy Za”l.

At the millennium, in the year 2000, he was appointed as the kosher administrator for the Rabbinic Counsil of Europe, based in Brussels, close to the European Parliament.

In 2004 he received a diploma from the Paris Bes Din, signed by the Chief Rabbi of Paris, Rabbi Cohen, enabling him to administer jurisdictions in context with marriage and divorce.

Rabbi Padwa is a world wide recognised authority in the Kosher world and has a reputation in solving many difficult challenges to kosher productions, based on his profound technical understanding and his vast knowledge in Jewish Dietary law.

His services are being called in by many of the leading kosher organisations around the globe, which includes, among others, the OU and OK organisations in the USA, the Badatz in Jerusalem, Rabbi Rubin, Rabbi Landau and Raabi Seckbach in Israel.

In 2022 Rabbi Padwa moved to Antwerp, and became part of the Rabbinic Team of Shomre Hadas, in the position of Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, this in addition to his position within KCS.

Chacham dr. P. Toledano

Dr. Pinchas Toledano is Chief Rabbi of the Portuguese Israeli Community in Amsterdam.

Chacham Toledano comes from a family of Rabbis, which goes back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition. He has studied in several jesjiewot and received his title Rabbi at the age of 20.

He is a certified Shochet, ritual slaughterer, Sofer, writer of religious documents, and Mohel, ritual circumciser.

Chacham Toledano, has a world wide reputation in kashrut and will as member of KCS be involved  in kosher certifications.