Avi Tawil

Rabbi Avi Tawil is currently Director of the European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC), a Brussels based non-profit organisation that promotes Jewish Culture in Europe. The EJCC highlights the roots of Jewish culture in the European family for over millennia and its contribution to an inclusive European culture. In addition to that, it aims to encourage those who identify with Jewish culture to welcome our common responsibility and duty to the European Project which we are proud to belong. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied rabbinical studies, Jewish Philosophy, and Kabalah in the Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal, Seminar of Jewish studies in Manchester, UK and at the Yeshivah Gedolah in Safed, Israel. He was ordained as Rabbi in the headquarters of Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and taught Jewish Philosophy in the Yeshivah Gedolah of Buenos Aires. During 2001–2003 he was responsible for educational and humanitarian programmes with the Jewish community of Cuba and Patagonia. Since 2004, he lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and four young children, where he has developed a number of cultural projects aimed at intercultural dialogue in Europe. He has participated in several lectures and conferences where he advocated for better understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.