Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch

male, deceased (1888)
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed...

David Saperstein

male
David Saperstein is a rabbi and Reform Jewish community leader, serving as the director and counsel of the movement's Religious Action Center for...
Shimon Bar Yochai

Shimon Bar Yochai

male
Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, Shimon son of Yohai, Simon son of Yohai or Rashbi, was a famous rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim (scholars of the...

David Harris

male, 69 years old
Dovid Harris is an Orthodox Judaism rabbi who as co-rosh yeshiva (dean), heads the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America. He is a...
Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

male, deceased (1993)
Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was the...

Case

male, deceased (1610)
Case was one of the foremost Polish rabbis and Talmudists of the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth; died at Posen...
Isaac Luria

Isaac Luria

male, deceased (1572)
Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution...
Saadia Gaon

Saadia Gaon

male, deceased (942)
Sa'adiah ben Yosef Gaon, ("Sa`īd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi"); was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period. Saadia is kno...
Eric Yoffie

Eric Yoffie

male
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America....
Joseph Telushkin

Joseph Telushkin

male
Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, lecturer, and author. Telushkin attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, was ordained...