Joseph Weinreb

Joseph (Yosef) Weinreb (1869–1943), also known as the "Galitzianer Rav," was the first chief rabbi of Toronto, Canada.

[1] He worked as a rabbi in Iași, Romania after receiving his smicha (rabbinical ordination) from the Brejaner Rebbe.

[3] Weinreb moved to Toronto with his two daughters, Malka and Lil, after his wife, Ethel, died in childbirth.

The rabbi purchased a home on Henry Street across from the Poilishe Shul, and continued to head the congregation for more than 40 years.

[4][1][5] After an ideological split in the congregation, a new synagogue was built on Terauley Street, on land donated by Zelig Shapira.

A march in support of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in front of the parliament building in Toronto, Canada. The man in the shiny black top hat is Rabbi Joseph Weinreb, the chief rabbi of Toronto at the time.