- Aryeh Kaplan
Aryeh Kaplan was a noted American Orthodox rabbi and author, who had a background in both physics and Judaism. He is widely viewed as a prolific and original teacher; his work ranged from studies of the Torah, Talmud and works of mysticism to outreach and philosophy.
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed "neo-Orthodoxy", his philosophy, together with that of Ezriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was the descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As "Rosh Yeshiva" of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav, as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century.
- Gil Student
Rabbi Gil O. Student (born August 8, 1972) is an ordained but non-pulpit serving American Orthodox rabbi. He has written about the interface between Judaism, more specifically Orthodox Judaism, and modern controversial topics. He has also written in opposition to the claim by some Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim that the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, may have been the long-awaited Jewish Messiah (i.e. the "Moshiach").
- David Hartman
David Hartman (born 1931) is an American rabbi and philosopher of contemporary Judaism and an internationally renowned Jewish author. Born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Hartman attended Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and the Lubavitch Yeshiva. In 1953, having studied with Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, he received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University in New York. He continued to study with Rabbi Soloveitchik until 1960, …
- J. David Bleich
Rabbi Dr. J. (Judah) David Bleich (born 1936) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics and bioethics. He is a professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, as well as head of its postgraduate institute for the study of Talmudic jurisprudence and family law.
- Hershel Schachter
Rabbi Hershel Schachter (born 1941) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, in New York City. He is a noted Talmudic scholar and a prominent posek for the kashruth division of the Orthodox Union along with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. At the age of 22, Rabbi Schachter was appointed as an assistant to the renowned Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik. Rabbi Schachter earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, …
- David Berger
David Berger is a rabbi, a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a visiting professor at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School. He is most famous for his critique of Chabad messianism. In 2006, Berger accepted his appointment as a full time faculty member at Yeshiva University. He will teach primarily Medieval Jewish history at the graduate level.
- 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.
- Menachem Genack
Rabbi Menachem Genack is the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division. "The Forward" listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States.
- 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.
- Chaim Berlin
Chaim Berlin (Hebrew: חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, and his younger half-brother (from his father's second marriage) was Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (choosing "Bar-Ilan" as the Hebraized version of "Berlin"). From 1889-1892 he lived in Volozhin, where he was a head of a rabbinical court.
- Tovia Singer
Tovia Singer (b. 1965) is the host of The Tovia Singer Show, a radio show that was launched in 2002, as well as a public lecturer who devotes his time to countering missionary work undertaken by such messianic organizations as Jews for Jesus. In that capacity he heads Outreach Judaism, which aims to provide educational resources to individuals targeted for conversion by missionary groups.
- Eliezer Berkovits
Eliezer Berkovits (1908, Nagyvarad - 20 August 1992), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Modern Orthodox Judaism.
- Yehuda
Yehuda (Leo) Levi (1926-) was Rector and Professor of Electro-optics at the Jerusalem College of Technology. He is best known as the author of several books on Science and Judaism, and Judaism in contemporary society, as well as on physics.
- Michael Broyde
Michael Broyde is the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. He is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi ordained by Yeshiva University, and a scholar of Jewish law currently teaching law at Emory Law School. He serves on the Beth Din of America and is the rabbi of Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. Broyde is a prolific author and speaker on Jewish law, Mishpat Ivri and Jewish ethics.
- David Cohen
Rabbi David Cohen (also known as “Rav Ha-Nazir,” The Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist
- Malbim
<u>M</u>eïr <u>L</u>eibush <u>b</u>en <u>J</u>ehiel <u>M</u>ichel Weiser, better known by the acronym Malbim, was a Russian rabbi, preacher, and Bible commentator. The name "Malbim" is derived from the Hebrew initials of his name, and became his family name by frequent usage.
- Jacob Joseph
Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840-July 28 1902) was the first and only Chief Rabbi of New York (actually, he served as chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, a federation of Eastern European Jewish synagogues.) Born in Krozhe, a province of Kovno, he studied in the Volozhin yeshiva under the "Netziv," where he was known as "Rav Yaakov Charif" because of his sharp mind.
- Shraga Simmons
Shraga Simmons is an influential Israeli Orthodox rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach). He has worked in the fields of journalism and public relations, and currently serves as editor of Aish.com, the world's largest Jewish learning website with one million visitors monthly. Rabbi Simmons grew up in Buffalo, New York. Upon graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism, he worked as a reporter for newspapers and magazines.
- Yechiel Michel Epstein
Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829-1907), often called "the "Aruch ha-Shulchan" (after his main work, Aruch HaShulchan), was a Rabbi and "posek" (authority in Jewish law) in Lithuania. His surname is often preceded by "ha-Levi", as he descended from a family of Levites.
- Natan Slifkin
Rabbi Natan Slifkin (sometimes "Nosson Slifkin") (born 1975), also popularly known as the "Zoo Rabbi", is an ordained but non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi best known for his interest in biology, zoology, and natural history, and for his books on these topics, which subsequently became the focus of controversy within the Orthodox and Haredi world.
- Moses Sofer
Rabbi Moses ben Samuel Sofer or Schreiber, also known by his main work Hatam Sofer or the Chasam Soifer ("שו"ת חתם סופר" - "Responsa "the Seal of the Scribe"), was one of the leading rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century. His German name was "Moses Schreiber".
- Bernard Revel
Rabbi Bernard (Dov) Revel (September 17 1885-1940) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He served as the first President of Yeshiva College from 1915 until his death in 1940.
- Milton Balkany
Rabbi Milton (Yehoshua) Balkany (born 1946) is an Orthodox rabbi, Jewish community leader, educator, political actvist and fundraiser.
- Chaim Soloveitchik
Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik, a method of highly exacting and analytical Talmudical study that focuses on precise definition/s and categorization/s of Jewish law as commanded in the Torah with particular emphasis on the legal writings of Maimonides. His primary work was "Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim", a volume of insights on Maimonides' Mishnah Torah which often would suggest novel understandings of the Talmud as well.
- Yehuda Ashlag
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam, (lit. "Master of the Ladder") - referring to his magnum opus, the Sulam - was an orthodox rabbi born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire), to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in Jerusalem from 1922 until his death in 1954 and is considered by many to be a great kabbalist.
- Jacob Ettlinger
Jacob Ettlinger (Hebrew: יעקב עטלינגר) was a German rabbi and author, and one of the leaders of Orthodox Judaism. He was born at Karlsruhe and died at Altona. He received his early education from his father Aaron, who was "Klausrabbiner" (Rabbi of a small synagogue) in Karlsruhe, continuing his studies under Abraham Bing at Würzburg, where he also attended the university.
- Yehuda Henkin
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin was born in 1945 and currently lives in Jerusalem. His father was Hillel Henkin, a Jewish educator in New Haven, CT. Rav Henkin has emerged in the last decade as a major posek with four volumes of responsa titled "Bnei Banim", and a Biblical commentary, "Hibah Yeteirah". He studied six years with his famous grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, from whom he received semichah.
- Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (1820-1892) was the author of Beis Halevi, by which name he is better known among Talmudical scholars. He was the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim Volozhiner.
- 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, …
- Shimon Schwab
Rabbi Shimon (Simon) Schwab (December 30, 1908 - March 28, 1993) was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States, initially in Baltimore and later in Washington Heights in New York City.
- David Zvi Hoffman
David Zvi Hoffmann (Hebrew: דוד צבי הופמן), was an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Torah Scholar. Born in Verbó in 1843, he attended various Yeshivas in his native town before he entered the college at Presburg, from which he graduated in 1865. He then studied philosophy, history, and Oriental languages at Vienna and Berlin, taking his doctor's degree in 1871 from Tuebingen University.
- Chaskel Besser
Chaskel Besser (February 12, 1923 - present) is a werll known Orthodox rabbi living in Manhattan. He was born in Katowice, Poland and lived there until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. He is affiliated with Congregation B'nei Israel in New York. He is the subject of a book written by Warren Kozak called "The Rabbi of 84th Street".
- David Lapin
David Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. He is the son of the late Rabbi A.H. Lapin (1912-1991), senior rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg, and chief rabbi of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation and brother of well known Rabbi Daniel Lapin and of Rabbi Raphael Lapin. Lapin is currently the CEO of Strategic Business Ethics, Inc., …
- Chaim Rapoport
Rabbi Chaim Rapoport is an author, lecturer and renowned Judaic scholar. He is a member of the UK’s Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks’ cabinet where he holds the Jewish Medical Ethics portfolio. Rabbi Rapoport is also a visiting professor at the Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE) in London and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School (YCT) in New York.
- Levi Brackman
Rabbi Levi Brackman (born 1978) is a Judaic scholar, teacher, writer and religious leader who has been active in both England and the United States and whose writings are featured regularly in Jewish publications internationally and on the Internet. A native of London, Brackman studied at Yeshivot in Israel, America and Canada and has taught classes in Halacha, Talmud, …
- Natan Gamedze
Natan Gamedze was born an African prince of the royal Gamedze clan of the Kingdom of Swaziland in 1963. After his conversion to Judaism as a "ger tzedek" he became an Orthodox rabbi with Haredi affiliations, lecturing to Jewish audiences all over the world, fascinated by his personal story as to how he became an Orthodox Haredi Black Jewish rabbi.
- Samuel Belkin
Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. He was born in Swislocz, Poland and studied in the yeshivas of Slonim and Mir. He went to the United States in 1929 and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings of Philo) at Brown University in 1935, one of the first awarded for Judaic studies in academia. He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, …
- Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
Zvi (Zwi) Hirsch Kalischer (March 24 1795 - October 16 1874) was an Orthodox German rabbi and one of Zionism's early pioneers in Germany.