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Rabbi Dov Singer Rabbi Dov Singer Rabbi Dov Singer is a recognized trailblazer in Israeli education and Jewish spirituality. He has attracted thousands of Jews of all backgrounds to workshops... See more
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Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol RABBI DR. MOSHE SOKOL is Dean of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro College, and Rabbi of the Yavneh Minyan of Flatbush. He holds a PhD in Philosophy... See more
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and rabbi at Congregation... See more
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) was born in Russia into a family of renowned Eastern European rabbis. Initially trained in the scholarship of the... See more
Rabbi David Stav Rabbi David Stav Rabbi David Stav is Chief Rabbi of the City of Shoham & Chairman of the TZOHAR organization. Rav Stav is a graduate of Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav and has... See more
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz After a 45-year effort, Rabbi Steinsaltz completed a monumental elucidation of the entire Talmud in modern Hebrew, now used all over the world. Rabbi Steinsaltz... See more
Rabbi Aviad Tabory Rabbi Aviad Tabory Rabbi Aviad Tabory is an instructor in Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi in Jerusalem. He has also taught at numerous seminaries in Israel,... See more
Rabbi Binyamin Tabory Rabbi Binyamin Tabory Rabbi Binyamin Tabory, a talmid of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and talmid-chaver of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, received semikha from Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak... See more
Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari Dr. Meir Tamari is the Director of The Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in Jerusalem. See more
Yerachmiel Michael Tilles Yerachmiel Michael Tilles Yerachmiel Michael Tilles is a native of the Bronx. In 1965, he graduated from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) at age 20. After becoming Chasidic and... See more
Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky Rabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky (1930–1997) was Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philosophy at Harvard University and founder and... See more
S. B. Unsdorfer S. B. Unsdorfer S. B. Unsdorfer was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, the son of the town's much-loved rabbi. At the tender age of nineteen he was torn from his parents at... See more
Miriam Feinberg Vamosh Miriam Feinberg Vamosh Miriam Feinberg Vamosh is the author of several informative, illustrated books about ancient times in the Holy Land that have been translated into more than... See more
Aaron Waldman Aaron Waldman Aaron Waldman is a translator who was born in Tianjin, China and made aliya in 2015. He is a Torah scholar and calligrapher based in Haifa, Israel. See more
Rabbi Menachem Waldman Rabbi Menachem Waldman Rabbi Menachem Waldman is a central and veteran activist in the struggle for the aliyah and absorption of Ethiopian Jewry. For many years he served as the... See more
Rabbi Berel Wein Rabbi Berel Wein Rabbi Berel Wein zt"l (1934-2025) was a widely recognized expert on Jewish history, which he popularized through lectures, books, seminars, television and radio... See more
Dr. Susan Weingarten Dr. Susan Weingarten DR. SUSAN WEINGARTEN is an archaeologist and historian. She was born in England, studied at Oxford University, and moved to Israel in 1973. After raising five... See more
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb RABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREB is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Orthodox Union. For over seven years as Executive Vice President, he built the... See more
Rabbi Avraham Weiss Rabbi Avraham Weiss Avraham Haim Yosef (Avi) haCohen Weiss is an American Modern Orthodox ordained rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer, and activist who heads the Hebrew Institute... See more
Rabbi Zalman Weiss Rabbi Zalman Weiss Rabbi Zalman Weiss is an Orthodox rabbi living Jerusalem, Israel. He received smicha from Rabbi Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, and studied at the yeshivas of Kol... See more
Janice Weizman Janice Weizman Janice Weizman is the author of the award-winning historical novel, The Wayward Moon (Yotzeret, 2012), which will be reissued with Toby Press in 2024. Her... See more
Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank RABBI NETANEL WIEDERBLANK studied at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Kerem B’Yavne, Chevron Yeshiva (Givat Mordechai), Yeshiva University, and RIETS.... See more
Lawrence M. Wills Lawrence M. Wills Lawrence Wills received his doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, and has taught there and at Episcopal Divinity School. His book, The Jewish Novel in the... See more
Ruth Wisse Ruth Wisse Prof. Ruth Wisse is a Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. She lives in... See more
Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis Yeshivat Har Etzion, a hesder yeshiva located in Gush Etzion, Israel, is one of the leading institutions of advanced Torah study in the world. Founded by... See more
Erez Zadok Erez Zadok Erez Zadok is a comic book artist, illustrator and caricaturist. Erez received his degree in Visual Communications from the world-renowned Bezalel Academy of... See more
Dov S. Zakheim Dov S. Zakheim Dr. Dov S. Zakheim was Under Secretary of Defense (2001–2004) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1985–87) of the United States. He holds a B.A. from... See more
Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum is Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), formerly known as Jews’ College, where he holds the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern... See more
Rabbi Reuven Ziegler Rabbi Reuven Ziegler Rabbi Reuven Ziegler is Chairman of the Editorial Board at Koren Publishers Jerusalem, Director of Research at the Toras HoRav Foundation, and Founder and... See more
Dr. Yael Ziegler Dr. Yael Ziegler Dr. Yael Ziegler is a lecturer in Bible at Herzog Academic College and at Matan Jerusalem, and author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative. A... See more
