Career
He had previously lived in Kiryat Malachi in Israel. In Cyprus, he set up the Cyprus Jewish Community Centre in Larnaca, close to the international airport, to serve around 350 Jewish families on the island, as well as Jewish travellers and tourists. Besides the Larnaca Synagogue, the Jewish Community of Cyprus also built a dining room, English and Hebrew library, a mikveh and a kindergarten.
Other activities at the Centre include a wide variety of classes and programmes designed to reach all ages and levels of Jewish learning.
Activities include Discussion groups on Jewish issues, weekly Talmud and Torah study groups, special Jewish holiday programmes, Jewish email services and a website, Shabbat meals and tourist assistance. Rabbi Raskin was nominated as the official Jewish Leader and the Chief Rabbi of Cyprus on Monday 12 September 2005, at the dedication ceremony of the Centre which was performed by Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger and a representative of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Reverend Weissman.
In the synagogue, Rabbi Raskin was draped with a tallit and officially took on the leadership of the Cyprus Jewish community. By 2006 the building of mikveh ("ritual pool") Mei Menachem was completed, and a summer centre in Ayia Napa and the Cyprus International Jewish School were opened.
To be mentioned that two other brothers of him are serving too as rabbis in Jewish communities:
Rabbi Shlomo Raskin in Frankfurt, Germany
Rabbi Shmuel Raskin in Budapest, Hungary.