Summary Dieter Graumann says he won't seek a second term leading the Central Council of Jews.
BERLIN (AP) - Germany s main Jewish leader, who in 2010 became the first person born after the Holocaust to take the job, says he s stepping down.
Dieter Graumann said Friday he won t seek a second term leading the Central Council of Jews in a vote Nov. 30. The 64-year-old said the job, whose holder works on an honorary basis, "demanded an extraordinary amount of energy and time."
The group s vice president, Josef Schuster, said he will run for the presidency.
Graumann was among leading critics of a 2012 German court ruling that male infant circumcision amounts to bodily harm. Parliament later approved legislation explicitly permitting the practice.
In September, he organized a major rally against anti-Semitism after tensions over the Gaza conflict spilled over anti-Jewish slogans and violence at demonstrations in Europe.
