- Arnold Eisen
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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Moshe Greenberg
Moshe Greenberg is a major scholar in the area of Biblical studies, in the course of a career that has spanned half a century. He has also made major contributions to the study of Semitic languages. He was born in Philadelphia on 10 July, 1928. At the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in 1954, he studied Bible and Assyriology with E. A. Speiser; simultaneously, he studied post-Biblical Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
- 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.
- Mordecai Kaplan
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, …
- Burton Visotzky
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, …
- Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (b. Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1930) is son of a Jewish immigrant from the Central European region of Galicia who was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a low-income neighborhood in racial transition. Podhoretz's family was left-wing, with his elder sister joining a socialist youth movement. Podhoretz received bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University-where he studied under Lionel Trilling-and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Steven Bayme
Steven Baym is an essayist and author. Currently (1997) he is National Director of Jewish Communal Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, and holds the rank of Adjunct Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. Additionally, Baym serves on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and has served frequently as a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards.
- Shaye J. D. Cohen
Shaye J. D. Cohen (b. October 21, 1948) is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Ancient History, with distinction, from Columbia University in 1975. He is also an ordained rabbi, and for many years was the Dean of the Graduate School and Shenkman Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
- 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.
- Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum (b. 1945) is an American scholar, professor, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust. He is perhaps most famous for his work as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as such should be considered the creator of the museum.
- Ismar Elbogen
Ismar Elbogen (September 1, 1874, Schildberg (Ostrzeszów) near Posen, 1 August 1943, New York) was a Jewish-German rabbi, scholar and historian. Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches Wörterbuch", and then at the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, he received his doctor's degree from the Breslau University.
- 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.
- Naomi Levy
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.
- 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.
- Mark Cohen
Mark R. Cohen (born 1943) is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His research specialty is Jews in the Muslim world. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam. His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza.
- Avraham Harman
Avraham Harman (1915-1992) was an Israeli diplomat and academic administrator. Born in London, England, he received a law degree from Wadham College, Oxford in 1935. In 1938, he immigrated to Palestine. In 1949, he was appointed Israel's first consul-general in Montreal, Quebec. In 1950, he worked in the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. From 1953 to 1955, he was the consul-general in New York, New York.
- Avraham Goldberg
Avraham Goldberg is a well-known and respected Israeli talmud scholar. Goldberg was born in Pittsburgh, and was educated at yeshivot Torah V'Daat and Chafetz Chaim, as well as at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied English literature. After serving as a chaplain in the US armed forces during World War II, Goldberg moved to Israel to study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he remained until today.
- Milton Himmelfarb
Milton Himmelfarb (October 21,1918 - January 4, 2006) was a noted sociographer of the American Jewish community. He worked for four decades at the American Jewish Committee where he was director of information and research services. He edited various versions of the "American Jewish Yearbook". He also was a contributing editor of Commentary, the monthly journal of opinion.
- Herbert S. Goldstein
Rabbi Dr. Herbert S. Goldstein, (1890-1970), was a prominent Jewish leader in the United States. He graduated as valedictorian at the (then-more-traditional) Jewish Theological Seminary. He was the only person in history to have been elected president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the Rabbinical Council of America (first presidium), and the Synagogue Council of America.
- Hugo Weisgall
Hugo Weisgall was an American composer, known chiefly for opera and vocal music. He was born in Eibenschitz (now Ivančice), Moravia (then part of Austria-Hungary, later in his childhood Czechoslovakia) and moved to the United States at the age of eight. Weisgall studied at the Peabody Institute, privately with Roger Sessions, and at the Curtis Institute of Music with conductor Fritz Reiner and composer Rosario Scalero.
- Isaac Husik
Isaac Husik (Hebrew: יצחק הוזיק) was a Jewish historian, translator, and student of philosophy, one of the first three individuals to serve as official faculty at Gratz College in Philadelphia. Husik was born near Kiev, but because of the worsening climate under the May Laws, in 1888, when he was 10 years old, he moved with his mother to Philadelphia. His father, Wolf Husik, rejoined them the following year.
- 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.
- Israel Lewy
Israel Lewy was a German-Jewish scholar. He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau. In 1874 he was appointed docent at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums in Berlin, and in 1883, on the death of David Joël, he was called to the seminary at Breslau.
- Mathilde Roth Schechter
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.
- 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.
- Richard Elliott Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman is a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He joined the faculty of the UGA Religion Department in 2006. Prior to his appointment there, he was the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization: Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at UCSD from 1994 until 2006. Dr.
- Arthur Hyman
Professor Arthur Hyman is the Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School and the Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, where he has been teaching for the past 38 years. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yale University, Columbia University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Sidney Morgenbesser
Sidney Morgenbesser (September 22, 1921 - August 1, 2004) was a Columbia University philosopher. Born in New York City, he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University of Pennsylvania, arriving back at Columbia to lecture in 1953. In 1975, he was named the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy. Morgenbesser was known particularly for his sharp witticisms and humor, which often penetrated to the heart of the philosophical issue at hand.
- Jonathan A. Goldstein
Jonathan A. Goldstein is a biblical scholar and author who writes for the Anchor Bible Series. He is the author of definitive books on I Maccabees and II Maccabees, as well as a book about competing religions in the ancient world. Goldstein studying at Jewish Theological Seminary and earned a bachelors degree and masters degree at Harvard University. He then earned a doctorate from Columbia University and taught history there for two years.
- Leonard Lewisohn
Leonard Lewisohn was an American merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Hamburg on October 10, 1847 and died in London on March 5, 1902. He was of Jewish heritage. His father, Samuel Lewisohn, a prominent Hamburg merchant, sent him to the United States in 1863; about three years later he was joined by his younger brother, Adolph Lewisohn, and they formed the firm of Lewisohn Brothers in Jan., 1866. As early as 1868 the firm turned its attention to the metal trade, …
- Albert Jean Amateau
Albert Jean Amateau was a rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist. Born a Sephardic Jew in Milas, Turkey, Amateau attended the American International College in İzmir (Smyrna), Turkey. He emigrated to the United States in 1910. In the early 1920s, Amateau began a movement to bring more Jews into the workplace and government. He was also involved largely in the affairs of deaf people.
- Samuel Hirsch Margulies
Samuel Hirsch Margulies Dr.,, and studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary and at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig, in Germany. He was rabbi in Hamburg (1885-1887), district rabbi of Hesse Nassau, Germany, (1887-1890) and in 1890 was appointed chief rabbi of Florence, Italy. In 1899 he became principal of Italy’s only rabbinical seminary, the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano when it transferred from Rome to Florence.
- Nathan Porges
Nathan Porges was a Bohemian German rabbi. Porges was born in Prossnitz (Prostějov) in Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was educated in his native town Prossnitz, at the gymnasium of Olmütz (Olomouc), and at the University (Ph.D. 1869) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (rabbi 1869) of Breslau (Wrocław). He became successively rabbi at Nakel (Nakło nad Notecią) (1875), Mannheim (1879), Pilsen (1880), Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) (1882), …
- Abraham Lewinsky
Abraham Lewinsky was a German rabbi. He was born on March 1, 1866, in Loslau, Upper Silesia. He studied at the University of Breslau from 1884 to 1887 (Ph.D.), pursuing at the same time his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1890 he was called as district rabbi to [W[eilburg-on-the-Lahn]]; and two years later he took charge of the district rabbinate of Hildesheim.
- Adolf Lewin
Adolf Lewin was a German rabbi and author. He was born in Pinne, Posen on September 23, 1843. Lewin was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the University of Breslau. In 1872 he was appointed rabbi in Kozmin, later in Coblenz, and in 1886 was called to the rabbinate of Freiburg im Breisgau. He died in 1910.