- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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, …
- Solomon Schechter
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
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.
- David Wolpe
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, …
- Harold Kushner
Harold S. Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism.
- Elliot N. Dorff
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.
- Neil Gillman
Neil Gillman (born 11 September 1933) is an American rabbi, an adherent of Conservative Judaism, and a philosopher.
- Ismar Schorsch
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.
- Amy Eilberg
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.
- Chaim Potok
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".
- David Golinkin
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, …
- Jacob Neusner
Jacob Neusner (born July 28, 1932, Hartford, Connecticut) is an academic scholar of Judaism
- Arthur Hertzberg
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 - April 17, 2006) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.
- Louis Jacobs
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".
- Bradley Shavit Artson
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson (b. 1959) is an author, speaker, and the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, California, where he is Vice-President.
- Robert Gordis
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, …
- Louis Finkelstein
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, …
- Isaac Klein
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.
- Gordon Tucker
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.
- Jason A. Miller
Jason Alan Miller (born 24 July 1976) is an American rabbi, an adherent of the Conservative Movement, the spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Achim in Columbus, Ohio, and a proponent of the Synaplex model of synagogue programming on Shabbat.
- Louis Ginzberg
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.
- David Weiss Halivni
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is a scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor, originally of Sighet, Romania.
- Judith Hauptman
Judith Rebecca Hauptman (born 1943) is a feminist Jewish Talmudic scholar. She grew up in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, United States. Hauptman received a degree in Talmud from the Seminary College of Jewish Studies at Jewish Theological Seminary, a B.A. in economics from Barnard College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Talmudic studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She also studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Harold M. Schulweis
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.
- Zecharias Frankel
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.
- Marshall Meyer
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.
- Jules Harlow
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.
- Aaron L. Mackler
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.
- Alan Silverstein
Alan Silverstein is an American Conservative rabbi and the spiritual leader of Congregation Agudath Israel since 1979. He received a master of Hebrew letters in rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Ph.D. in Jewish history from its Institute for the Advanced Study in Humanities and was ordained by its Rabbinical School. He also earned a master’s degree in Jewish history from Columbia University.
- Sabato Morais
Sabato Morais was an American Jewish rabbi, leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
- Daniel S. Nevins
Daniel S. ("Danny") Nevins (born 18 March 1966) is an American rabbi and an adherent of the Conservative Movement who was named the new Dean of the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary on January 29, 2007. He is currently the spiritual leader of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, Michigan, but will leave his pulpit in July to assume his new position as dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary's rabbinical school.
- William E. Kaufman
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), …
- Dr. Joachim Prinz
Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was a German rabbi who was outspoken against Nazism and became an American Jewish leader. After his emigration to the United States, he became vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress, an active member of the World Zionist Organization and a participant in the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington
- Alexander Kohut
Alexander Kohut (April 22, 1842, Felegyhaza, Hungary - May 25, 1894, New York) was a rabbi and orientalist. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being R. Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, R. Amram (called "The Gaon," who died in Safed, Palestine, where he had spent the last years of his life), and R. Chayyim Kitssee, rabbi in Erza, who was his great-granduncle. The last-named was the author of several rabbinic works.
- Stewart Vogel
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.
- Erwin Schild
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, …
- William H. Lebeau
William H. Lebeau is an American Rabbi, and Dean of The Rabbinical School, Vice Chancellor and Chairman of the Department of Professional Skills, and Lecturer of Professional Skills at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. Lebeau will step down by July 1, 2007. He will be succeeded by Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins.
- Henry Sobel
Henry Sobel is a Brazilian rabbi and an American citizen, and president of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP), the largest Jewish congregation in Latin America, in São Paulo, Brazil. While Rabbi Sobel was an infant his family moved to New York where he grew up and was eventually ordained a rabbi in 1970. In the same year, he accepted an invitation to be the rabbi at CIP and established himself in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Aaron Wise
Aaron Wise, an American rabbi; born at Erlau, Hungary, May 2 1844; died in New York March 30 1896; son of Chief Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Weiss, and father of Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise. He was educated in the Talmudic schools of Hungary, including the seminary at Eisenstadt, where he studied under Dr. Hildesheimer. Later he attended the universities of Leipzig and Halle, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution.
- David F. Booth
David F. Booth was born in Oakland, CA. on November 7, 1969. He attended San Mateo High and then Wesleyan Univsersity in Middletown, CT. His senior thesis, comparing Elie Wiesel and Sholem Aleichem, was subsequently published in Judaism in Winter of 1993, a quarterly journal published by the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, Rabbi Booth served as spiritual leader at Rodef Sholom Temple in Hampton VA.