Pinchas Toledano

Pinchas Toledano (פנחס טולידאנו) [1] is Hakham-Emeritus (Chief Rabbi) of Amsterdam and of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands.

He studied under his father, Baruch Avraham Toledano [he], and also attended various yeshivot in England and Israel, receiving semikha—ordination—at age 20.

He is also a certified shochet (ritual slaughterer), sofer (scribe) and mohel (circumciser).

In 1980 he received his PhD from London, his dissertation focusing on the relationship between Rashi and the Targumim.

In 1974 he was appointed Dayan (rabbinic judge) of the Sephardi Community of London and in 1980 was Av Bet Din.