1. Shlomo Riskin

    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (born 1940) is the American founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, the Rabbi of the Israeli city of Efrat, and Founder and Dean of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, a network of High Schools, Colleges, and Graduate Programs in both the United States and Israel. He belongs to Modern Orthodox Judaism.

  2. Avi Weiss

    Rabbi Avraham Weiss, born in 1944, (usually known as Avi Weiss or Rav Avi) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Bronx, New York. He is an author, teacher, lecturer, and activist. In addition he is founder and Dean of the "Open Orthodox" Yeshiva in New York - Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

  3. Norman Lamm

    Rabbi Dr. Norman ("Nachum") Lamm, (born 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a major American Modern Orthodox Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor of Yeshiva University. He was the third President of Yeshiva University (YU), and the first to be born in the USA. He also holds a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy. He is a disciple of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (Modern Orthodoxy's most influential scholar), …

  4. Yosef Blau

    Yosef Blau is an Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach Ruchani, Director of Religious Guidance at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, since 1977. Current president of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA). Rabbi Blau earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from Yeshiva College. He earned a Masters of Science degree at the University's Belfer Graduate School of Science in 1960, …

  5. Joseph Telushkin

    Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, lecturer, and author. Telushkin attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, was ordained at Yeshiva University, and studied Jewish history at Columbia University. Telushkin serves as a rabbi for the Los Angeles-based Synagogue for the Performing Arts, is an associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is a former director of education at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

  6. Mark Dratch

    Rabbi Mark Dratch is the founder of JSAFE (The Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse-Free Environment). Rabbi Dratch served as a congregational rabbi for 22 years. He was a Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, is chairman of its Task Force on Rabbinic Improprieties and responsible for spearheading and formulating its new policy guidelines for responding to allegations against member rabbis.

  7. Azriel Hildesheimer

    Israel Azriel Hildesheimer (May 20, 1820 - July 12, 1899) was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

  8. Shalom Carmy

    Rabbi Shalom Carmy is a tenured professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University. A Brooklyn native, he is a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian, historian, and philosopher. He received his B.A. and M.S. from Yeshiva University, and received his rabbinic ordination from its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Carmy has written many articles; he is the editor of "Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought", …

  9. Barry Freundel

    Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world. A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics. Popular among collegiates, he has served as a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale and Cornell and guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Chicago and other universities. He is also an adjunct professor at several universities.

  10. Berel Wein

    Rabbi Berel Wein,the founder and director of The Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of Jewish history through world-wide lectures, his more than 1,000 audiotapes, books, seminars, educational tours and, most recently, dramatic and documentary films. Rabbi Wein is a graduate of the Hebrew Theological College and Roosevelt College in Chicago.

  11. Marc D. Angel

    Marc D. Angel (1945-) is Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City. Born in Seattle's sephardic community, his ancestors are sephardim from Turkey and Rhodes and grew up speaking Ladino at Home. He received his B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Th.D. "honoris causa" and his rabbinal semicha from Yeshiva University and also has an M.A. in English Literature from the City College of New York.

  12. Moshe David Tendler

    Rabbi Dr. Moshe David (Dovid) Tendler is the rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey. He is a senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University's RIETS and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College. He has a Ph.D. in Microbiology and is one of the world's leading experts on Jewish medical ethics. Rabbi Tendler is the son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who was a world renowned posek, i.e., …

  13. Leo Jung

    Rabbi Leo Jung was one of the major architects of American Orthodox Judaism.

  14. Ephraim Buchwald

    Ephraim Buchwald is an influential Orthodox rabbi based in New York City. He was ordained at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Soloveitchik.

  15. Reuven Bulka

    Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka (born June 1944) received his Rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Rabbinical Seminary in New York, and his Ph.D.degree from the University of Ottawa in 1971, concentrating on the Logotherapy of Viktor Frankl. He has been the Rabbi, Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Ottawa, Canada since 1967. Rabbi Bulka was the founder and editor of the Journal of Psychology and Judaism. He has contributed scholarly and popular articles to various journals, …

  16. Hershel Reichman

    Rabbi Hershel Reichman is a Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University. Reichman is known for his patience and lucid teaching style, as well as his ability to give guidance and advice. A loyal student of both Rabbis Moses Feinstein and Joseph Soloveitchik, he has authored five volumes of "Reshimos Shiurim" which are lucid notes and explanations of Rabbi Soloveitchik's lectures on specific sections of the Talmud.

  17. Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

    Yitzchak Yaacov Reines יצחק יעקב ריינס (Isaac Jacob Reines was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement.

  18. Milton Polin

    Milton H. Polin, an Orthodox rabbi who served in Brooklyn, New York,, attained a number of distinctions in his life. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Rabbi Polin studied at the Hebrew Theological College -- "Beth Midrash L'Torah"-- in his native city from which he received his ordination and bachelor of Hebrew literature degree "cum laude". At his ordination he was awarded a prize for his Hebrew essay `Rabbi Joseph Albo and the Debate at Tortosa, …

  19. Sacha Pecaric

    Sacha Pecaric is a rabbi of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in Kraków. After studies in Prague, Pecaric continued to study at the rabbinic department of the Yeshiva University in New York and the department of philosophy of the Columbia University (M.A.) and Charles University (Ph.D.). He has been living in Kraków since 1997 where he runs the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation aimed at providing education to the small local Jewish community as well as local Gentiles, …

  20. Michael Rosensweig

    Rabbi Michael Rosensweig (b. 1955) is a Rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University.

  21. Baruch Poupko

    Rabbi Dr. Baruch A. Poupko, born in Velizh (town north of Mogilev) to Rabbi Eliezer and Pesha Poupko is an American multi-lingual scholar, author, and lecturer. After receiving ordination from Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik at the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1941 he served as Rabbi and Senior Rabbi of Shaare Torah of Pittsburgh, PA (1942 - 2004), …

  22. Dr. Moshe David Tendler