Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef

male, 89 years old
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, a recognized authority in Halakha ("Jewish law"). He is the former Sephardic chief rabbi of...

Elazar Shach

male, deceased (2001)
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (January 22, 1898 - November 2, 2001), was a leading Eastern European-born and educated Haredi rabbi who settled and...
Avi Shafran

Avi Shafran

male
Rabbi Avi Shafran is a Haredi rabbi who serves as the Director of Public Affairs for Agudath Israel of America, an organization established to meet...
Uri Lupolianski

Uri Lupolianski

male, 58 years old
Uri Lupolianski (born 1951) is the current mayor of Jerusalem. He is a member of the United Torah Judaism party and is the first Haredi Jewish...

Semicha

male
Semicha ("leaning [of the hands]"), also "semichut" ("ordination"), or "semicha lerabbanut" ("rabbinical ordination") is derived from a Hebrew word...

Chaim Kanievsky

male
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is a Haredi rabbi and posek ("decisor of Jewish law") living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is the author of several works of...
Gil Student

Gil Student

male, 37 years old
Rabbi Gil O. Student (born August 8, 1972) is an ordained but non-pulpit serving American Orthodox rabbi. He has written about the interface...
Shlomo Carlebach

Shlomo Carlebach

male, 84 years old
Shlomo Carlebach (Salomon Peter Carlebach) (b. August 17, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany), (not to be confused with his cousin and namesake) is a Haredi...
Berel Wein

Berel Wein

male
Rabbi Berel Wein,the founder and director of The Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of...
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

male, deceased (1995)
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן אוירבך), was a renowned Rabbi, Posek and Rosh Yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Israel. He was...