Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) was a Romanian Jewish rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

Joel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and chair of the assembly's "Committee on Jewish Law and Standards" (CJLS) which deals with questions of Jewish law and tradition, and serves as the Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America, in NYC, where he formerly served as dean of the Rabbinical School.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a descendant of preeminent rabbinic families of Europe, both on his father's (Moshe Mordechai Heschel, who died of influenza in 1916) and mother's (Reizel Perlow Heschel) side, and a descendant of Rebbe Avrohom Yehoshua Heshl of Apt and other dynasties. He was the youngest of six children including his siblings: Sarah, Dvora Miriam, …

Arnold (Arnie) Eisen, Ph.D. (1951-) is Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1986. Prior to teaching at Stanford, he taught at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University. Eisen has been appointed the seventh Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, replacing Rabbi Dr. Ismar Schorsch. Eisen will be the second non-rabbi, after Cyrus Adler, …

Robert Gordis (1908 - 1992) was an important figure of Judaism. He founded the first Conservative day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and of the Synagogue Council of America, and was professor at Jewish Theological Seminary from 1940 to 1992. He wrote one of the first pamphlets explaining Conservative ideology in 1946, …

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881-November 8, 1983) was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Kaplan was born in Lithuania and was ordained as a rabbi at Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City in 1902. Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Kehillath Jeshrun, a synagogue in New York. He helped to create the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Israel Friedlander, …

Ismar Schorsch (1935-) was the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history. He served as Chancellor for 19 years and retired on June 30, 2006. He was succeeded by Arnold Eisen. In 1995, Schorsch published "Sacred Cluster: The Core Values of Conservative Judaism", outlining what he calls the seven clusters of Conservative Judaism.

Neil Gillman (born 11 September 1933) is an American rabbi, an adherent of Conservative Judaism, and a philosopher.

Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar and expert in Jewish law. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the first American seminary of Conservative Judaism. He was awarded a doctorate from Columbia in 1918, became a rabbi in 1919, and after many years as professor of theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary he was appointed Chancellor in 1951. He authored a number of books, including "Tradition in the Making, …

Dr. Louis Jacobs (b. Manchester, 17 July1920, d. London, 1 July 2006, 5 Tammuz 5766 in the Jewish calendar), was a Masorti rabbi, the first leader of Masorti Judaism (also known as Conservative Judaism) in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and thinker on Judaism. He also became known as the focus of events in the early 1960s that came to be known as "The Jacobs Affair".

Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism. He currently has a position as senior rabbi of Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York. In 2006, his name was listed as one of the frontrunners for the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to replace Chancellor Ismar Schorsch upon his retirement. Arnold Eisen was ultimately chosen for the position.

David Golinkin is a rabbi, author and President and Rector of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel. He is a major halachic authority in the Masorti movement (Conservative Judaism in Israel.) Golinkin is a Conservative rabbi, and a member of the Rabbinical Assembly. He is the editor or author of eighteen books, and over 150 responsa, articles, sermons and books. He is a professor of Jewish law at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, …

Harold S. Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism.

Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in California (where he is also Rector), author, and a bio-ethicist. Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism, Bioethics, and acknowledged within the Conservative community as an expert decisor of Jewish law. Dorff was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1970.

Isaac Klein (1905-1979).Rabbi Isaac Klein was born in Hungary in 1905, and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1921. After earning a BA from City College in New York in 1931, As he was nearing ordination at the Yeshiva's REITS he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he was ordained in 1934. Rabbi Klein subsequently earned a PhD from Harvard.

Leo Baeck was an 20th century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism. Baeck was born in Lissa (then in the Posen province of Germany, now in Poland) and began his education near Breslau at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary in 1894. He also studied philosophy in Berlin with Wilhelm Dilthey, served as a rabbi in Oppeln, Düsseldorf, and Berlin, …

Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited".

Rabbi David J. Wolpe (b. 1958 -) is an author, public speaker and rabbi in Los Angeles, California. He is considered a rising young leader of the Conservative Jewish movement. Wolpe was named "one of the fifty most influential Jews in America" by Jewish Daily Forward and one of the hundred most influential people in Los Angeles by Los Angeles magazine. Author of six books and a regular weekly column in the New York Jewish Week, …

Jules Harlow (born June 28, 1931) is a rabbi and liturgist; son of Henry and Lena Lipman Harlow. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1952 at Morningside College in Sioux City he earned a B.A., and from there went to New York City to study in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; here he became ordained as a rabbi in 1959. He then became a staff member of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of rabbis in Conservative Judaism.

Rabbi Amy Eilberg (born October 12 1954) is the first woman rabbi ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism. Ordained in 1985, she was the first woman appointed to serve on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards in 1986. As of 2004, the JTS has ordained more than 150 women rabbis and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies has ordained approximately 30.

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 - April 17, 2006) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.

Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis (1925-) is a Rabbi, author, and a longtime Spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA. Known for his highly skilled oratory, Rabbi Schulweis, starting back in 1970 when he came to Valley Beth Shalom, began to attract hundreds of congregants each week to his Friday night Sabbath services and is generally given credit for reviving and re-newing Judaism among many of his followers.

Burton L. Visotzky, born in Chicago, Illinois, 1951, is a Conservative Rabbi and professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary who also studied moral development at Harvard University under Lawrence Kohlberg. He later applied the moral reasoning and ethical relationship approach pioneered by Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan to Ethics in the Bible in his book "The Genesis of Ethics", 1997. This explored a modern incarnation of the Jewish theological traditions of midrash, …

Zecharias Frankel was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague and died in Breslau (modern day Wrocław). Frankel was the founder and the most eminent member of the school of historical Judaism, which advocates freedom of research, while upholding the authority of traditional Jewish belief and practice. This school of thought was the intellectual progenitor of Conservative Judaism.

Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. She has also been involved in many projects in various roles, including the television series "All American Girl" and "HBO At the Multiplex" segments where she asks humorous questions of unexpecting moviegoers. She is known for her height (6'3", 1.91 m), curly hair, and glasses.

Naomi Levy is an American rabbi, author and speaker. Levy was born and raised in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, NY. She attended Bialik School and Yeshiva of Flatbush. She attended Cornell University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. In 1984, she was in the first class of women to enter The Jewish Theological Seminary's rabbinical school.

Rabbi David Gil Dalin is a Conservative rabbi, and author and co-author of several books on Jewish history. He is currently a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University, and was previously associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Hartford. Dalin received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's and doctorate from Brandeis University, …

Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer was an American-born Conservative rabbi and a recognized international human rights activist. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1952. Upon meeting Abraham Joshua Heschel, he enrolled in the Rabbinical School at the Jewish Theological Seminary. After his ordination in 1958, he decided to take a position as Assistant Rabbi at the Congregación Israelita de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Aaron L. Mackler is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, author, and a bio-ethicist. Mackler is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism and in Bioethics. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. Mackler was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He earned a Ph.D in philosophy from Georgetown University.

Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar, most famously known for his authorship of the popular and comprehensive "A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature". Jastrow was born in Posen, Poland. After receiving rabbinical ordination, Ph.D., and "Doctorate of Letters" (D.Litt), …

William E. Kaufman is a rabbi, a philosopher, and an author of several books and academic articles. He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis. He serves as rabbi at Temple Beth El, in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Rhode Island College and Bristol Community College. He has published many articles in "Judaism" (quarterly journal), …

Mathilde Roth Schechter (1859 - 1924) - was the American founder of the US National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918. She was married to Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi who was Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls. After assisting Henrietta Szold in creating Hadassah, Schechter later served as its national chairwoman of education.

Harry Kemelman (1908-1996) was an American mystery writer and a professor of English. Harry Kemelman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1908. He was the creator of one of the most famous religious sleuths, Rabbi David Small. After receiving a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. from Harvard in English philology, he taught at a number of schools before World War II. During the war, …

Rich Nathan (born December 1955) has been the senior Pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus since 1987. Rich was raised in conservative Judaism and converted to Christianity at the age of 18. Prior to pastoring, Rich was an assistant professor of business law at The Ohio State University for five years. Rich has served on the National Board of Vineyard: A Community of Churches for more than a decade and is a the Large Church Task Force Coordinator for the Vineyard.

Rabbi Stewart Vogel is a prominent Conservative rabbi serving as senior rabbi of Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills, California. Vogel is the current president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and active in committees of the international organization of Conservative rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly.

Arnold S. Stiebel, Ph.D. is an American rabbi. He is a member of both the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis. He was born in New Orleans and educated and degreed at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, Memphis State University, Rabbinic training specifically at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Cincinnati and Pepperdine University.

Erwin Schild (born 1920) is a Canadian Conservative rabbi and author. Born in Cologne, Germany, a Holocaust survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, he is the author of "World Through My Window" (ISBN 0-9696226-0-0) and his autobiography "The very narrow bridge: a memoir of an uncertain passage" (ISBN 0-9696226-1-9). In September 1947, he became the Rabbi of Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto, …

Amy Wynn Pastor (born May 9, 1976 in Philadelphia, PA) is best known as a carpenter on the TLC reality shows "Trading Spaces" and "Trading Spaces: Family Edition". Pastor is the younger daughter of a professional trombone player and a teacher and grew up in a Conservative Jewish family in Philadelphia. She was in several television commercials as a child and majored in theater at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1999.