Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is a widely respected spokesperson and activist for Modern Orthodoxy in Israel. He serves as Chief Rabbi of Efrat and Founder, Chancellor Emeritus and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network of high schools, colleges, seminaries and rabbinical schools. Before moving to Israel in 1983, he was Associate Professor at Yeshiva University, and the founding Rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City.