- Rabbi Michael J. HarrisRabbi Dr Michael Harris was born in London in 1964. He studied at three yeshivot in Israel: Ma’ale Adumim, Machon Harry Fischel and Yeshivat HaMivtar in Efrat. He holds semicha (rabbinic ordination) from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and from other prominent Israeli rabbis. Rabbi Harris obtained ...
- Rabbi Benjamin BlechBenjamin Blech, born in Zurich in 1933, is an Orthodox rabbi who now lives in New York City. Rabbi Blech has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years. In addition to his work in the rabbinate, Rabbi Blech has written ...
- Rabbi Hayyim AngelRabbi Hayyim Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals and the Rabbinic Scholar at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York. He has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996, and lectures ...
- Rabbi Dr. Marc D. AngelRabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City. He currently directs the institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, which fosters an intellectually vibrant, compassionate and inclu¬sive Orthodox Judaism. The author and editor of twenty-seven books, he is ...
- Rabbi Dr. Yehuda BrandesRabbi Yehuda Brandes has headed Beit Morasha, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Leadership in Jerusalem, since 1998, and serves as the academic director for the Center's Robert M. Beren College. He is also a lecturer at the Herzog College in Alon Shvut, was among the founders of the ...
- Rabbi Aharon LichtensteinRabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015) was born in Paris, France, and escaped the Nazi occupation with his family, arriving in the United States in 1941. After studying at Yeshivat Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner, he earned his rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University and his ...
- Rabbi Norman LammRabbi Norman Lamm, former Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University from (August 1976 to August 2003)and former Rosh haYeshiva of its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (2013), is one of the most gifted and profound Jewish thinkers today. He was the founding editor of ...
- Rabbi Alex IsraelRabbi Alex Israel is an educator whose teaching over the past two decades has inspired thousands of students in the US, Israel and the UK to engage deeply with Biblical texts. He teaches at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies where he is Director of Community ...
- Rabbi Joseph B. SoloveitchikRabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) was born in Russia into a family of renowned Eastern European rabbis. Initially trained in the scholarship of the sacred texts of Judaism, he enrolled at twenty-three at the University of Berlin in order to study physics, mathematics, and philosophy. He ...
- Rabbi Natan SlifkinRabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin is the founder and director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History near Beit Shemesh, Israel. Raised in Manchester, England, he made aliya to Israel in 1993. He studied in yeshivot for many years and received rabbinic ordination from Or Sameach Institutions. He holds ...
- Rabbi Yuval CherlowRabbi Yuval Cherlow is rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Amit Orot Shaul in Israel. He is a graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion, ordained by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, a retired major in the IDF, and a founding member of the non-profit rabbinical organization Tzohar. He has published many books and ...
- Rabbi Dr. Yosef BronsteinRabbi Dr. Yosef Bronstein received rabbinic ordination and a PhD in Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University. He is the Rosh Bet Midrash of Machon Zimrat Ha’aretz, a community learning center and rabbinical training program in Efrat, Israel, and also teaches Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva ...
- Rabbi David StavRabbi 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 qualification for Dayanut (Rabbinical Judge) from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Rav Stav lectures in the women's Judaic program at Bar Ilan ...
- Rabbi Eliezer BerkovitsRabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992) is widely ranked among the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Romania and educated at the famous Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary, he received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He held rabbinical positions ...
- Rabbi Nachum RabinovitchRabbi Nachum Rabinovitch (1928-2020) was one of the supreme rabbinic scholars of our time, a bold and expert decisor of Jewish law, a talmudic scholar with vast knowledge and the ability to find new depth and beauty in ancient texts, and a philosophical exegete who was able to draw deep ...
- Rabbi Tzvi Hersh WeinrebRABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREB is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Orthodox Union. For over seven years as Executive Vice President, he built the Orthodox Union to an unparalleled degree of esteem, as he combined the skills of pulpit rabbi, scholar, and clinical psychologist to provide ...
- Rabbi Shlomo EinhornRabbi, lecturer, educator, author, songwriter, dean, and most recently, record-holder for the longest continuous Torah class at 19 Hours, which he delivered as a wildly successful fundraiser on May 3rd, 2018 - and Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn is just getting started. He began his rabbinic career as an ...
- Rabbi Hershel SchachterRabbi Schachter, a noted Talmudic scholar, has had a distinguished career with RIETS for over 50 years. He joined the faculty in 1967, at the age of 26, the youngest Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS. Since 1971, Rabbi Schachter has been Rosh Kollel in RIETS' Marcos and Adina Katz Kollel (Institute for ...
- Rabbi Binyamin LauRabbi Dr. Binyamin Lau is an Israeli community leader, educator, and rabbi. He is the rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem and head of the 929 Bible Project. Rabbi Lau also serves as a consultant for a number of leading organizations, is widely published, and is frequently cited in the ...
- Rabbi Shalom RosnerRabbi Shalom Rosneris a renowned Torah scholar and community rabbi based in Israel. He earned a BA in Economics from Yeshiva University, an MA in Jewish Education and Administration from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, and has rabbinical ordination from RIETS. Prior to making ...
- Rabbi Shlomo GorenRabbi Shlomo Goren was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel, a Talmudic scholar and foremost authority on Jewish law. He founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to ...
- Rabbi Tuly WeiszRABBI TULY WEISZ served as a Rabbi for five years at the Beth Jacob Congregation in Columbus, Ohio before moving to Israel with his family. He attended Yeshiva University (BA), Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (Rabbinic Ordination) and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (JD). He is the ...
- Rabbi Dr. Edward ReichmanRabbi Edward Reichman, M.D., is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Education and Bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Dr. Reichman received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva ...
- Rabbi Yitzhak TwerskyRabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky (1930–1997) was Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philosophy at Harvard University and founder and head of its Center of Jewish Studies. Following in his father’s footsteps, Rabbi Twersky served as the Talner Rebbe in the Talner Beit ...
