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Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (Tannaim)

See Mishnah

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
, Tannaim

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years....
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• Shimon Hatzadik
  Simeon the Just
  
  Simeon the Just was the Jewish Kohen Gadol during the time of the Second Temple. He is also known for some of his views which are recorded in the Mishnah, ....
  
• Antigonus of Sokho
  Antigonus of Sokho
  
  Antigonus of Sokho was the first scholar of whom Pharisee tradition has preserved not only the name but also an important theological doctrine....
  

Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (Tannaim) (Zugot)

See: Mishnah

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
, Tannaim

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years....
, Zugot

Zugot

Zugot ??????????)}}) refers to the period during the time of the Second Temple , in which the spiritual leadership of the Jewish people was in the hands of five successive generations of zugot of religious teachers....
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• Jose ben Joezer, Nasi
  Nasi
  
  Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the Maccabean wars of independence.
• Jose ben Johanan, Av Beit Din
  Av Beit Din
  
  Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the Maccabean wars of independence.
• Joshua ben Perachyah
  Joshua ben Perachyah
  
  Joshua ben Perachya was Nasi of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the second century BC.He and his colleague Nittai of Arbela were the second of the five pairs of scholars who received and transmitted Jewish tradition ....
  , Nasi
  Nasi
  
  Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of John Hyrcanus
  John Hyrcanus
  
  John Hyrcanus was a Hasmonean leader of the 2nd century BC. Apparently the name "Hyrcanus" was taken by him as a regnal name upon his accession to power....
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• Nittai of Arbela
  Nittai of Arbela
  
  Nittai of Arbela was av beit din or vice-president of the Sanhedrin under the nasi Joshua ben Perachyah at the time of John Hyrcanus . In Jerusalem Talmud Haggigah II 76d he is called Mattai of Arbela, which is also found in ancient and linguistically reliable manuscripts of the Mishnah, such as Codex Kaufmann. The confusio...
  , Av Beit Din
  Av Beit Din
  
  Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of John Hyrcanus
  John Hyrcanus
  
  John Hyrcanus was a Hasmonean leader of the 2nd century BC. Apparently the name "Hyrcanus" was taken by him as a regnal name upon his accession to power....
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• Judah ben Tabbai
  Judah ben Tabbai
  
  Judah ben Tabbai ' was a Jewish tannaim of the early first century BCE. He was a contemporary of Simeon ben Shetach. During the persecution of the Pharisees under Alexander Jannaeus ', Judah fled to Alexandria, returning after Jannaeus' death....
  , Nasi
  Nasi
  
  Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome
  Salome
  
  Salome or Salom? the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament in connection with the death of John the Baptist. Another source from Antiquity, Flavius Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, gives her name and some detail about her family relations....
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• Simeon ben Shetach
  Simeon ben Shetach
  
  Simeon ben Shetach or Shimon ben Shetach was a Pharisee scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reigns of Alexander Jann?us and his successor, Queen Alexandra Salome , who was Simeon's sister....
  , Av Beit Din
  Av Beit Din
  
  Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome
  Salome
  
  Salome or Salom? the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament in connection with the death of John the Baptist. Another source from Antiquity, Flavius Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, gives her name and some detail about her family relations....
  .
• Shemaya, Nasi
  Nasi
  
  Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of Hyrcanus II
  Hyrcanus II
  
  Hyrcanus II, a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, was the Jewish Kohen Gadol and King of Judea in the 1st century BCE....
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• Avtalyon, Av Beit Din
  Av Beit Din
  
  Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of Hyrcanus II
  Hyrcanus II
  
  Hyrcanus II, a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, was the Jewish Kohen Gadol and King of Judea in the 1st century BCE....
  . A convert to Judaism.
• Hillel the Elder
  Hillel the Elder
  
  Hillel was a famous Jewish religious leader, one of the most important figures in Jewish history. He is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud....
  , Nasi
  Nasi
  
  Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of King Herod the Great
  Herod the Great
  
  Herod , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great , was a Roman Empire client state of Israel. Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple....
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• Shammai
  Shammai
  
  Shammai was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah.Shammai was the most eminent contemporary and the Halakha opponent of Hillel the Elder, and is almost invariably mentioned along with him....
  , Av Beit Din
  Av Beit Din
  
  Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth period....
   of the Sanhedrin
  Sanhedrin
  
  The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
   during the reign of King Herod the Great
  Herod the Great
  
  Herod , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great , was a Roman Empire client state of Israel. Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple....
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Rabbis: Mishnaic (Tannaim)

See Mishnah

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
, Tannaim

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years....
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• Akiva
  Rabbi Akiva
  
  Akiba ben Yossef or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tannaim of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century ....
  , 1st century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
• Judah haNasi
  Judah haNasi
  
  Rabbi Judah haNasi, , also known as "Rabbi" and "Rabeinu HaKadosh" , was a key leader of the Jewish community of Judea toward the end of the 2nd century CE, during the occupation by the Roman Empire....
  , 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah
• Shimon bar Yochai, 1st century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar
• Yohanan ben Zakkai, 1st century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah
• Eliezer son of Jose the Galilean
  Jose the Galilean
  
  Jose the Galilee was a Jew who lived in the first and second centuries of the common era. He was one of the Tannaim, the rabbis whose work was compiled in the Mishna....
   (?-c.160), famous for Baraita
  Baraita
  
  Baraita designates a tradition in the Jewish oral law not incorporated in the Mishnah. "Baraita" thus refers to teachings "outside" of Mishnah#The structure of the Mishnah....
   of Thirty-Two mitzvoth. The father of Rabbi Hananiah
  Hananiah
  
  Hananiah may refer to:*Hananiah, son of Zerubbabel, exilarch*Hananiah , or Shadrach, Biblical figure*Hananiah , fourth century BC, governor of Samaria under the Achaemenid Empire...
  . See the fifth chapter of Hulin
  Hulin
  
  Hulin is a county-level city on Muling River with a population of around 200,000. It is in Jixi prefecture within Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China....
  , and Moed Katan 28.

Rabbis: Talmudic (Amoraim)

See Talmud

Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
 and Amora

Amora

Amora , were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel....
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• Abaye
  Abaye
  
  Abaye was a Rabbi of the Jewish Talmud who lived in Babylonia [???], known as an amora [?????] born about the close of the third century; died 339 ....
  , 3rd century Talmudist
• Abba Arika
  Abba Arika
  
  Abba Arika was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud....
  , known as Rav, last Tanna, first Amora. Moved from Israel to Babylon, 3rd century.
• Abbahu
  Abbahu
  
  Abbahu was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel, of the 3rd amoraic generation , sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of Caesarea ....
  , 4th century Talmudist
• Eleazar Kalir
  Eleazar Kalir
  
  Eleazar ben Kalir was one of Judaism's earliest and most prolific of the piyyut, liturgical poets. Many of his hymns have found their way into festive prayers of the Ashkenazi Jews synagogal rite....
  , early Talmudic liturgist and poet
• Hamnuna
  Hamnuna
  
  Hamnuna is the name of several rabbis in the Talmud.* Hamnuna Sabba . Mid third century of the common era. A pupil of Abba Arika . After Rav, he became the head of the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia at Sura ....
   - Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name.
• Hillel, son of Gamaliel III
  Hillel, son of Gamaliel III
  
  Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, was a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century CE. He was son of Gamaliel III, brother of Judah II, and probably a pupil of his grandfather Judah I....
  , 3rd century, in Judea, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah
• Hillel II
  Hillel II
  
  Hillel II, also known simply as Hillel held the office of Nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE. He was the son and successor of Judah III....
  , 4th century creator of the Hebrew calendar, in Judea, son of Judah Nesiah, grandson of Gamaliel IV
• Judah II
  Judah II
  
  Judah II was a famous Jewish sage who lived in Tiberias in the Land of Israel, in the middle of the third century CE. He is mentioned in the classical works of Judaism's oral law, the Mishnah and Talmud....
  , 3rd century sage, sometimes called Judah Nesi'ah and Rebbi like his grandfather
• Judah III
  Judah III
  
  Judah III held the office of Nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 290 and 320 CE. He is a famous Jewish sage mentioned in the classical works of Judaism's oral law, who lived during the third and beginning of the fourth century CE....
  , 4th century scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, and grandson of Judah II
• Rabbah bar Nahmani
  Rabbah bar Nahmani
  
  Rabbah bar Nachmani was a Jewish Talmudist known as an amora, who lived in Babylonia, known throughout the Talmud simply as Rabbah.Rabbah was born into a priestly family, and studied at both the academies in Sura and Pumbedita....
  
• Rav Ashi, 5th century Babylonian Talmudic sage - primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud
• Rav Nachman
  Rav Nachman
  
  Rav Nachman bar Yaakov was a Judaism Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the third generation, and pupil of Samuel of Nehardea....
  
• Rav Papa
  Rav Papa
  
  Rav Papa was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia. He was an Amora; a student of both Rava and Abaye. He led the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia in Nehardea....
  
• Rava
  Rava (amora)
  
  Rava was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora, born in 270, and one of the most often-cited Rabbis in the Talmud. He studied at the yeshiva of Pumbedita: see Talmudic Academies in Babylonia....
  , important Amora
• Ravina
  Ravina
  
  Ravina was the name of two Jewish sages from the time of the gemara:*Ravina I *Ravina II , nephew and successor of the aboveIt is also the surname of:...
  , primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
• Resh Lakish
  Resh Lakish
  
  Simeon ben Lakish , better known by his nickname Resh Lakish, was an amora who lived in the Roman Empire province of Syria Palaestina in the third century CE....
  
• Shmuel (Talmud), rabbi of Nehardea, physician
• Yochanan, primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud
• Rav Jonah
  Rav Jonah
  
  Jonah was a Palestinian Jews amora of the 4th century, the leading rabbinical authority in the 4th amoraic generation. With Jose II, his early schoolmate and lifelong colleague and business partner, he studied under Ze'era I and Rav Ela , and when, as young men, they called on Abbahu to express their sympathy with him in his bereavement, he...
  

Rabbis: Middle Ages

See: Geonim

Geonim

Geonim were the presidents of the two great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia of Sura and Pumbedita, in Babylonia, and were the generally accepted spiritual leaders of the Jewish community world wide in the early medieval era, in contrast to the Resh Galuta who wielded secular authority over the Jews in Islamic lands....
 and Rishonim

Rishonim

"Rishon" redirects here. For the preon model in particle physics, see Harari Rishon Model. For the Israeli town, see Rishon LeZion.Rishonim were the leading Rabbis and Posek who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the Shulkhan Arukh and following the Geonim....
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• Abba Mari
  Abba Mari
  
  Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph, was a Proven?al rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century. He is also known as Yarhi from his birthplace , and he further took the name Astruc, Don Astruc or En Astruc of Lunel....
  , (Minhat Kenaot), 13th century French Talmudist
• Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel), 15th century philosopher and Torah commentator
• Jacob Berab
  Jacob Berab
  
  Jacob Berab, also Jacob Berav, Yaakov Berav, Yaakov Bei Rav, Talmudist and rabbi; born at Maqueda near Toledo, Spain, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April 3, 1546....
  , 15th-16th century proponent of Semichah (Ordination)
• Abraham ibn Daud
  Abraham ibn Daud
  
  Abraham ibn Daud was a History of the Jews in Spain astronomy, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180....
  , (Sefer HaKabbalah), 12th century Spanish philosopher
• Obadiah ben Abraham
  Obadiah ben Abraham
  
  Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro was a Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the Mishnah, commonly known as "The Bartenura" or Obadiah of Bertinoro....
   of Bertinoro, (Bartenura) 15th century commentator on the Mishnah
• Abraham ben David of Posquières, 1100s, France.
• Abraham ibn Ezra
  Abraham ibn Ezra
  
  Rabbi Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Islamic Spain, and died c. 1164 .. .He was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages....
  , (Even Ezra), 12th century Spanish-North African Biblical commentator
• Amram Gaon
  Amram Gaon
  
  Amram Gaon was a famous Geonim or head of the Jewish Talmud Talmudic Academies in Babylonia of Sura in the 9th century. He was the author of many Responsa, but his chief work was liturgy....
  , 9th century organizer of the siddur
• Asher ben Jehiel
  Asher ben Jehiel
  
  Asher ben Jehiel was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, ?our Rabbi Asher? or by the Hebrew language acronym for this title, the ROSH ....
  , (Rosh), 13th century German-Spanish Talmudist
• Bahya ibn Paquda
  Bahya ibn Paquda
  
  Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived at Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. He is often referred to as Rabbeinu Bachya....
  , (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th century Spanish philosopher and moralist
• Chananel Ben Chushiel
  Chananel Ben Chushiel
  
  Chananel ben Chushiel or Hananel ben Hushiel was a Rabbi, talmudist and a student of one of the last Geonim. He is best known for his commentary on the Talmud....
   (Rabbeinu Chananel), 10th century Tunisian Talmudist
• Dunash ben Labrat
  Dunash ben Labrat
  
  Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain and a student of Rabbi Saadia Gaon....
  , 10th century grammarian and poet
• Eliezer ben Nathan
  Eliezer ben Nathan
  
  Eliezer ben Nathan of Mayence , Ra'aven , was a halakist and liturgical poet. As an early Rishonim, he was a contemporary of the Rashbam and Rabbeinu Tam, and one of the earliest of the Tosafists....
  , 12th century poet and pietist
• Hasdai Crescas
  Hasdai Crescas
  
  Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas was a Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist . Along with Rambam, Ralbag, and Joseph Albo, he is known as one of the major practitioners of the rationalism approach to Jewish philosophy, and his positions on issues of natural law and free will in Or Hashem can be seen as precursors to those of Spinoza....
  , (Or Hashem), 14th century Talmudist and philosopher
• Rabbenu Gershom, 11th century German Talmudist and legalist
• Gersonides
  Gersonides
  
  Levi ben Gershon , better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag , was a famous rabbi, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer....
  , Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), 14th century French Talmudist and philosopher
• Hillel ben Eliakim
  Hillel ben Eliakim
  
  Hillel ben Eliakim, known in Hebrew language to Talmud scholars as Rabbeinu Hillel, , was a Jewish, Greece rabbi and Talmud scholar. He lived during the 11th century and 12th century....
  , (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12th century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
• Ibn Tibbon
  Ibn Tibbon
  
  Ibn Tibbon , is a family of Jewish rabbis and translators that lived principally in Provence in the twelfth century and thirteenth century....
  , a family of 12th and 13th century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders
• Isaac Alfasi
  Isaac Alfasi
  
  Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi - also Isaac HaCohen, Alfasi or the Rif - was a Talmudist and posek . He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Ha-halachot, considered the first fundamental work in Halakha#Codes of Jewish law....
  , (the Rif), 12th century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot".
• Jacob ben Asher
  Jacob ben Asher
  
  Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew language Ya'akov ben Asher, was born in Cologne, Germany in about 1269 and died in Toledo, Spain in about 1343....
  , (Baal ha-Turim ; Arbaah Turim), 14th century German-Spanish Halakhist
• Joseph Albo
  Joseph Albo
  
  Joseph Albo was a Jew philosophy and rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known chiefly as the author of Sefer ha-Ikkarim , the classic work on the Jewish principles of faith....
  , (Sefer Ikkarim), 15th century Spain
• Joseph ibn Migash
  Joseph ibn Migash
  
  Joseph ben Meir ibn Migash or Migas was a Rabbi, Posek, and Rosh Yeshiva in Lucena. He is also known as Ri Migash , the Hebrew language acronym for "Rabbi Joseph Migash"....
   12th century Spanish Talmudist and Rosh Yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
• Maimonides
  Maimonides
  
  Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon , the Rambam, and Musa ibn Maymun , was born in C?rdoba, Spain, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.....
  , Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), 13th century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
• Mordecai ben Hillel
  Mordecai ben Hillel
  
  Mordechai ben Hillel, also known as The Mordechai, , was a 13th century Germany rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as the Mordechai, is one of the sources of the Shulchan Aruch....
  , (The Mordechai), 13th century German Halakhist
• Nahmanides
  Nahmanides
  
  Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Nachman , was a Catalonia rabbi, philosophy, physician, Kabbalah, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible....
  , Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), 13th century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
• Nissim Ben Jacob
  Nissim Ben Jacob
  
  Nissim Ben Jacob was a rabbi and Talmudist best known today for his Talmudic commentary "HaMafteach", by which title he is also known....
   (Rav Nissim Gaon) 10th century Tunisian Talmudist
• Nissim of Gerona
  Nissim of Gerona
  
  Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Halakha . He was one of the last of the great Spanish medieval talmudic scholars....
  , (RaN), 14th century Halakhist and Talmudist
• Rashi
  Rashi
  
  Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, , better known by the acronym Rashi , , was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible....
  , (Solomon ben Yitzchak), 11th century Talmudist, the primary commentator of Talmud
• Elazar Rokeach
  Elazar Rokeach
  
  Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms, Germany was a leading Talmudist and kabbalist, and the last major member of the Chassidei Ashkenaz , a group of Jewish German pietists....
  , (Sefer HaRokeach) 12th century German rabbinic scholar
• Saadia Gaon
  Saadia Gaon
  
  Rabbi Se`adiah ben Yosef Gaon , , was a prominent rabbi, Jew philosopher, and exegete of the Geonim period.He is known for his works on Hebrew language, Halakha, and Jewish philosophy....
  , (Emunoth ve-Deoth ; Siddur) 10th century Exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry
• Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon
  Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon
  
  Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, more commonly known as Samuel ibn Tibbon , was a Jewish philosopher and doctor. He was born about 1150 in Lunel , and died about 1230 in Marseilles....
  , 12th-13th century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
• Tosafists
  Tosafists
  
  Tosafists were medieval rabbis known in Talmudical scholarship as Rishonim who created critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud. These were collectively called Tosafot ....
  , (Tosfot) 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
• Yehuda Halevi
  Yehuda Halevi
  
  Judah Halevi, in full Judah ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, also Yehuda Halevi, or Yehuda ben Samuel Halevi was a Sephardic philosopher and poet....
  , (Kuzari), 12th century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion

Rabbis: 16th - 18th centuries

See: Acharonim

Acharonim

Acharonim is a term used in Halakha and history, to signify the leading rabbis and Posek living from roughly the 16th century to the present....
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Rabbis: 16th - 17th centuries

• Isaac Abendana
  Isaac Abendana
  
  Isaac Abendana was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became Hakham#Among the Sephardim of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died....
  , 17th century Sephardic scholar in England
• Jacob Abendana
  Jacob Abendana
  
  Jacob Abendana , was Hakham#Among the Sephardim of London from 1680 until his death. Jacob was eldest the son of Joseph Abendana and brother to Isaac Abendana....
  , 17th century Sephardic rabbi in England
• Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
  Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
  
  Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was a rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer. In 1656, he was one of several elders within the Portuguese-Israelite community in the Netherlands who excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for the statements this philosopher made concerning God....
  , 17th century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas
• Bezalel Ashkenazi
  Bezalel Ashkenazi
  
  Bezalel Ashkenazi , a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud, lived in the Palestine during the sixteenth century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud....
  , ( Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th century Talmudist
• Yair Bacharach
  Yair Bacharach
  
  Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach was a German rabbi, initially in Koblenz and remainder of his life in Worms, Germany and Metz. His grandmother Chava was a granddaughter of the Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and his father and grandfather had served as rabbis of Metz....
  , (Havvot Yair), 17th century German Talmudist
• Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
  Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
  
  Moses ben Jacob Cordovero or Moshe Cordevero known by the acronym the Ramak , was one of the most prominent scholars of early modern Judaism's Kabbalah....
   (RaMaK) 16th century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi
  Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi
  
  Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi was a Lithuanian rabbi.He was born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev January 3 1690. After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel went to Vilnius, where from 1650 to 1651 he was a member of the rabbinical college....
  , (Bet Hillel), 17th century Lithuanian scholar
• Samuel Edels, (Mahrsha), 16th century Talmudist
• Kalonymus Haberkasten
  Kalonymus Haberkasten
  
  Rabbi Kalonymus Haberkasten was a Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. He is well known as the rosh yeshiva of many great rabbis including Rabbi Solomon Luria; his daughter Lipka married Luria....
    16th century Polish rabbi; Rosh Yeshiva of many great Rishonim
• David HaLevi Segal
  David HaLevi Segal
  
  David HaLevi Segal , also known as the Taz or the Turei Zahav, was a prominent Jews of Poland halakha authority and author of a significant commentary on the Shulchan Aruch....
  ,(Taz)16th century Halakhist, major commentatry on the Shulchan Aruch
  Shulchan Aruch
  
  The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
  
• Abraham Cohen de Herrera
  Abraham Cohen de Herrera
  
  Abraham Cohen de Herrera also known as Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abaham Irira was a Philosophy of religion and Kabbalah. He is supposed by the historian Heinrich Graetz to have been born in 1570....
  (RabACH), 16th Century Kabbalist and Philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the crypto-Judaism communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on....
  
• Isaiah Horowitz
  Isaiah Horowitz
  
  Isaiah Horowitz , was a well-known rabbi and Kabbalah. He is also known as Shelah HaKadosh - "the Holy Shelah" - from the title of his best-known work....
   (Shlah) 16th century Kabbalist and Author - Eastern Europe and Israel
• Moshe Isserles, (Rema), 16th century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch
  Shulchan Aruch
  
  The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
  )
• Yosef Karo
  Yosef Karo
  
  Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Caro, or Qaro, was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, which is still authoritative for Orthodox Jewry....
  , (Mechaber), 16th century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch
  Shulchan Aruch
  
  The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
   - code of Torah Law
• Meir ben Isaac and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen
  Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen
  
  Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen was an Italian people Rabbi, the son of Rabbi Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen). He was distinguished even in his youth for his scholarship and his oratorical gifts....
   of Padua
  Padua
  
  Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
  .
• Meir of Lublin
  Meir Lublin
  
  Meir Lublin or Meir ben Gedalia was a Poland rabbi, Talmudist and Posek . He is well known for his commentary on the Talmud, Meir Einai Chachamim....
  , (Maharam), 16th century Posek and Talmudist
• Isaac Luria
  Isaac Luria
  
  Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Judaism mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in the town of Safed in 16th century Ottoman Palestine....
  , (Ari), 16th century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Solomon Luria
  Solomon Luria
  
  Solomon Luria was one of the great Ashkenazic posek and teachers of his time. He is known for his work of Halakha, Yam Shel Shlomo, and his Talmudic commentary Chochmat Shlomo....
  , (Maharshal), 16th century Posek and Talmudist
• Menasseh Ben Israel
  Menasseh Ben Israel
  
  Manoel Dias Soeiro , better known by his Hebrew language name Menasseh Ben Israel , was a Spanish and Portuguese Jews rabbi, Kabbalah, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626....
  , 17th century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
• Shalom Shachna
  Shalom Shachna
  
  Shalom Shachna , was a rabbi and Talmudist, and Rosh Yeshiva of several great Acharonim including Moses Isserles, who was also his son-in-law....
  , 16th century Polish Talmudist; Rosh Yeshiva of several great Rishonim
• Judah Low ben Bezalel, (Maharal), 16th century Prague mystic and Talmudist
• Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
  Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
  
  Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno was an Italy rabbi, Jewish commentaries on the Bible, philosopher and physician. He was born at Cesena about 1475 and died at Bologna in 1550....
  , (Sforno), 16th century Italian scholar and rationalist
• Sforno
  Sforno
  
  'Sforno' is the name of a prominent Jewish Italy family, many members of which distinguished themselves as rabbis and scholars. The most prominent of these were the following:...
  , 15th, 16th, and 17th century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
• Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz
  Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz
  
  Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz was a rabbi, poet and meforshim, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yakar....
  , 16th-17th century Torah commentator
• Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
  Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
  
  Hayyim ben Joseph Vital was a foremost exponent of Kabbalah....
  , 16th Kabbalist
• Mordecai Yoffe
  Mordecai Yoffe
  
  Rabbi Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe was the author of Levush Malkhut, a ten-volume codification of religious laws that particularly stressed the customs of the Judaism of Eastern Europe....
   ("Levush") , 16th-17th century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha

Rabbis: 18th century

• Chaim Joseph David Azulai
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai
  
  Rabbi Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai , commonly known as the Chida , was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings....
   (Hida), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
• Raphael Berdugo
  Raphael Berdugo
  
  Raphael Berdugo , son of Rabbi Mordecai Berdugo, was a dayan, a scholar, and one of the greatest rabbis of Morocco.Raphael was respected by his contemporaries, and his decisions continue to be a source of inspiration to Moroccan rabbis....
  , rabbi in Meknes
  Meknes
  
  Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located 130 kilometres from the capital Rabat and 60 kilometres from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway....
  
• Haim Isaac Carigal
  Haim Isaac Carigal
  
  Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal was, indirectly, a significant influence on the development of Yale University in the late 1700s.In 1773, Carigal met the Reverend Ezra Stiles of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and the two became close friends according to Stiles' records....
  , rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island
  Newport, Rhode Island
  
  Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles south of Providence, Rhode Island....
   in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles
  Ezra Stiles
  
  The Rev. Ezra Stiles was an American academic and educator, a Congregational church minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College ....
  , and therefore on Yale University
  Yale University
  
  Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
  
• Dovber of Mezritch, (Maggid), 18th century Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
• Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon
  Vilna Gaon
  
  Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna and simply by his Hebrew language acronym Gra , , was an exceptional Talmud, Halakha, Kabbalah, and the foremost leader of non-hasidic world Jewry of the past few centuries....
   or Gra), 18th century Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidim
• Jacob Emden
  Jacob Emden
  
  Jacob Emden was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbatai Zevi. He was born at Altona, Hamburg June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776....
  , 18th century German Talmudist and mystic
• Israel ben Eliezer, (Baal Shem Tov), 18th century mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
• Aaron Hart
  Aaron Hart
  
  Rabbi Aaron Hart was the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death.A portrait of Rabbi Hart hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London....
  , Chief rabbi
  Chief Rabbi
  
  Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
   of Great Britain
  Great Britain
  
  Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  
• David Hassine
  David Hassine
  
  Rabbi David Hassine is one of the best known figures of Piyyut in Morocco and his piyyutim were spread around the Sephardi Jews world.Hassine was born in Morocco and was a rabbi....
  , Moroccan Jewish poet
• Yechezkel Landau
  Yechezkel Landau
  
  Yechezkel ben Yehuda Landau was an influential posek in halakha . He is best known for the work Noda Bihuda , by which title he is also known....
  , (Noda Bihudah), 18th century Posek and Talmudist
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
  
  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto , also known by the Hebrew language acronym RaMCHaL , was a prominent Italy Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and Jewish philosophy....
  , (Ramchal), 18th century Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic.
• Hart Lyon, Chief rabbi
  Chief Rabbi
  
  Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
   of Great Britain
  Great Britain
  
  Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  
• David Nieto
  David Nieto
  
  David Nieto was the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews community in London, later succeeded in this capacity by his son, Isaac Nieto....
  , English rabbi
• Isaac Nieto
  Isaac Nieto
  
  Isaac Nieto was Haham of the History of the Jews in Portugal congregation Sha'are Shamaim, Bevis Marks, London, and the son of David Nieto. He was officially appointed as "?akam ha-shalem" in 1733, but gave up the post in 1741 and went abroad....
  , English rabbi
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi
  Shneur Zalman of Liadi
  
  Shneur Zalman of Liadi , was an Orthodox Judaism Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia....
  , (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), 18th century mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe
• Akiva Eiger, 18th century Talmudist, and communal leader
• Elimelech of Lizhensk
  Elimelech of Lizhensk
  
  Elimelech Weisblum of Lizhensk was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and one of the great Hasidic Judaism rebbes of the past. He was also known as a tzaddik who devoted his life to studying and teaching the Torah, as well as encouraging people to repent and return to God....
  , (Noam Elimelech) 18th century Polish mystic and Hasid
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
  Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
  
  Levi Yitzchok of Berdychiv , known as the Berdichever Rebbe was a rabbi and Hasidic Judaism leader. He was one of the main disciples of the Maggid of Mezritch....
  , (Kedushas Leivi) 18th century Polish Hassidic Leader
• Shalom Sharabi
  Shalom Sharabi
  
  Sar Shalom Sharabi , also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizra?i deyedi`a Sharabi , was a Yemenite Jews Rabbi, Halachist, Chazzan and Kabbalah....
  , Yemenite
  Yemenite Jews
  
  Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen , on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Virtually the entire Jewish population emigrated from Yemen between June 1949 and September 1950 in what was deemed Operation Magic Carpet ....
   rabbi and Kabbalist
  Kabbalah
  
  Kabbalah is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mysticism aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings that are meant to explain the relationship between an infinite, eternal and essentially unknowable Creator deity with the finite and mortal universe of His creation....
  

Orthodox rabbis

See Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
.

Orthodox rabbis: 19th century

• Barnett Abrahams
  Barnett Abrahams
  
  Barnett Abrahams was the Principal of Jews' College.His father emigrated to England in 1839; his wife and son arrived in 1841, and two more sons were born in 1843 and 1844....
  , dayan, Principal of Jews' College
  Jews' College
  
  OriginsJews' College, now known as the London School of Jewish Studies, was opened in Finsbury Square, London as a rabbinical seminary in 1855 with the support of the then Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler and of Sir Moses Montefiore, who had had the idea for such a venture as early as 1841....
  , London
• Nathan Marcus Adler
  Nathan Marcus Adler
  
  Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, , was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain 1845?1891, probably the most prominent 19th century rabbi in the English language-speaking world....
  , Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
  
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter , also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes, was a Hasidic Judaism rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the av beis din and Rav of G?ra Kalwaria, Poland , and succeeded the Rebbe, Reb Heynekh of Alexander, as Rebbe of the Ger ....
   Sfas Emes Gerrer Rebbe
• Benjamin Artom
  Benjamin Artom
  
  Rabbi Benjamin Artom was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain. He was born in Asti, Piedmont, Italy.He was the first person to hold the post of rabbi of Naples....
  , Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Salomon Berdugo
  Salomon Berdugo
  
  Chief Rabbi Salomon Berdugo was a Halakha authority, poet and rabbi in Meknes, Morocco. He was the son of Rabbi Daniel Berdugo. In 1897 he was appointed rabbi of the community....
   19th century Rabbi in Meknes
  Meknes
  
  Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located 130 kilometres from the capital Rabat and 60 kilometres from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway....
  
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
  Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
  
  File:Netziv.gifRabbi Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Judah Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuanian Jews....
  , (Netziv ; Ha'emek Davar) 19th century head of Volozhin yeshiva in Lithuania
• Avrohom Bornsztain
  Avrohom Bornsztain
  
  Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain , also spelled Avraham Borenstein or Bernstein, was a leading posek in late-nineteenth-century Europe and founder of the Sochatchov ....
  , (Avnei Nezer), first Sochatchover Rebbe
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes
  Zvi Hirsch Chajes
  
  Zvi Hirsch Chajes was one of the foremost Galicia talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work Mevo Hatalmud , which serves both as commentary and introduction....
   (Maharatz Chayes) Galician Talmudic scholar
• Yosef Chayim, the Ben Ish Hai
  Ben Ish Chai
  
  Yosef Chaim was a leading Hakham , posek on Jewish law and Master Kabbalah. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai , by which title he is also known....
  , Iraqi halakhist and preacher
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin
  Yehoshua Leib Diskin
  
  Rabbi Yehoshua Yehudah Leib Diskin, , also known as the Maharil Diskin, was an important Talmudist and Tanakh Commentator. He served as a rabbi in Lomza, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Kaunas, Shklov, Brest, Belarus and finally Jerusalem after moving there in 1878, where he became the spiritual leader of a part of the Yishuv haYashan....
  , Rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem
• Yechiel Michel Epstein
  Yechiel Michel Epstein
  
  Yechiel Michel Epstein , often called "the Aruch ha-Shulchan" , was a Rabbi and posek in Lithuania. His surname is often preceded by ha-Levi, as he descended from a family of Levites....
  , (Aruch ha-Shulchan) 19th-20th century halakhist and posek (decisor)
• Jacob Ettlinger
  Jacob Ettlinger
  
  Jacob Ettlinger was a Germany 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 in Karlsruhe, continuing his studies under Abraham Bing at W?rzburg, where he also attended the university....
  , 19th century German scholar and opponent of Reform
• Moshe Shmuel Glasner
  Moshe Shmuel Glasner
  
  Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner , a prominent Hungary Talmudic scholar and communal leader, served as chief rabbi of Klausenburg from 1877 to 1923. In 1923 he left Klausenburg for Jerusalem where he resided until his death in 1924....
  , (Dor Revi'i) 19th-20th century talmudist, chief rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrahi
• Jacob of Lissa Galician Halakhist
• Azriel Hildesheimer
  Azriel Hildesheimer
  
  Dr. Esriel Hildesheimer 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....
  , 19th century German rabbi and philosopher
• Samson Raphael Hirsch
  Samson Raphael Hirsch
  
  Samson Raphael Hirsch was a Germany rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism....
  , 19th century German rabbi, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement
• Solomon Herschell, 19th century British Chief Rabbi
• Malbim
  Malbim
  
  Me?r Leibush ben Jehiel Michel Weiser , better known by the acronym Malbim , was a Russian rabbi, preacher, and meforshim....
  , Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michael, (The Malbim), 19th century Russian preacher and scholar
• Pele Yoetz, Rabbi Eliezer Papo
  Eliezer Papo
  
  Rabbi Eliezer Papo was the rabbi of the community of Selestria in Bulgaria. He is famous for writing the Pele Yoetz, a book which gives advice on how to behave as a Jew in many aspects of life....
  , Rabbi of the community of Selestria, Bulgaria
  Bulgaria
  
  The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
  
• Raphael Meldola
  Raphael Meldola (Sephardic Rabbi)
  
  Raphael Meldola, English Rabbi. Born in Livorno 1754; died in London June 1, 1828.One of the most prominent members of the Meldola family. He received a thorough university training, both in theological and in secular branches, and displayed such remarkable talents that when only fifteen years old he was permitted to take his seat in the r...
  , Sephardic rabbi in London
• Frederick de Sola Mendes
  Frederick de Sola Mendes
  
  Frederick de Sola Mendes was a rabbi, author, and editor.He was the son of R. Abraham Pereira Mendes. He was educated at Northwick College and at University College School, London, and at the University of London ....
  , Sephardic rabbi in London and America
• Nachman of Breslov
  Nachman of Breslov
  
  Nachman of Breslov , also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover , Nachman from Uman , was the founder of the Breslov ....
  , (Rebbe Nachman), 19th century Ukrainian Hasidic Rebbe and mystic
• Yisrael Lipkin Salanter, 19th century Lithuanian ethicist and moralist
• Dovber Schneuri
  Dovber Schneuri
  
  Dovber Schneuri was the second Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement. Rabbi Dovber was the first Chabad rebbe to live in the town of Lyubavichi , the town for which this Hasidic dynasty is named....
  , second Rebbe of Chabad
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
  Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
  
  Menachem Mendel Schneersohn also known as the Tzemach Tzedek was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement....
  , (Tzemach Tzedek), third Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Shmuel Schneersohn
  Shmuel Schneersohn
  
  Shmuel Schneersohn was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the fourth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement....
  , 19th century Russian fourth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Yaakov Chaim Sofer
  Yaakov Chaim Sofer
  
  Yaakov Chaim Sofer was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi, Kabbalist, Talmudist and posek . Sofer is author of the work of halakha titled Kaf hachaim, by which title he is also known....
  , Baghdadi rabbi, author of Kaf ha-Chaim
• Moses Sofer
  Moses Sofer
  
  Rabbi Moshe Sofer, , also known by his main work Chasam Sofer, , , was one of the leading Orthodox Judaism rabbis of European Judaism in the first half of the nineteenth century....
  , (Chatam Sofer) 19th century Hungarian rabbi
• Chaim Soloveitchik
  Chaim Soloveitchik
  
  Chaim Soloveitchik , also known as Reb Chaim Brisker, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism....
   ("Brisker Rov" 19th century Eastern European rabbi
• Abraham b. Eliezer Lipman Liechtenstein
  Abraham b. Eliezer Lipman Liechtenstein
  
  Abraham ben Eliezer Lipman Liechtenstein was a Poland rabbi and author. He lived at the end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth century....
   Rabbi of Plotsk

Orthodox rabbis: 20th century

Chareidi leaders

• Yehezkel Abramsky
  Yehezkel Abramsky
  
  Dayan Yehezkel Abramsky, , known affectionately as Reb Chatzkel Abramsky, was one of the most eminent Orthodox Judaism rabbis of the 20th century who headed the London Beth Din for 17 years....
  , author of Chazon Yehezkel
• Yisrael Abuhatzeira
  Baba Sali
  
  Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira , known as Baba Sali ???? ???? , was a Morocco rabbi and Kabbalah....
  , 20th century Kabbalist
• Avrohom Blumenkrantz
  Avrohom Blumenkrantz
  
  Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz was a prominent United States Orthodox Judaism rabbi. He was a widely consulted authority on the laws of Passover kashrut and published an annual Passover guide for many years....
  , posek
  Posek
  
  Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
   and kashrut
  Kashrut
  
  Kashrut refers to Judaism Taboo food and drink. Food in accord with halakha is termed kosher in English language, from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew language term kash?r , meaning "fit" ....
   authority
• Shmuel Bornsztain (I), Shem Mishmuel
  Shem Mishmuel
  
  Shem Mishmuel is the name of a nine-volume collection of inspirational essays on the Torah and Jewish holidays delivered by Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain , the second Sochatchov Rebbe, between the years 1910-1926....
  , Second Sochatchover Rebbe
• Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
  
  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler was an influential Orthodox Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. He is best known as mashgiach ruchani of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Israel and through collections of his writings published posthumously by his pupils....
  , (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) 20th century religious philosopher and ethicist
• Baruch Epstein
  Baruch Epstein
  
  Rabbi Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah Bible commentary on the Torah....
  , (Torah Temimah), 20th century Lithuanian Torah commentator
• Moshe Mordechai Epstein
  Moshe Mordechai Epstein
  
  Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka Yeshiva, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century....
  , ( Levush Mordechai), 20th century Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka Yeshiva
• Moshe Feinstein
  Moshe Feinstein
  
  Moshe Feinstein was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi, scholar and posek , who was world-renowned for his expertise in Halakha and was regarded by many as the de facto supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America....
  , (Igrot Moshe), 20th century Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
• Tzvi Hirsch Ferber
  Tzvi Hirsch Ferber
  
  Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber was a renowned Talmudic and Torah scholar, gifted orator, prolific author and tireless community builder. A man of outstanding knowledge and talent, he was an exemplar of old-world Lithuanian Torah scholarship and sagacity....
  , (Kerem HaTzvi), 20th century author, leader and renowned scholar
• Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (Alter / Sabba), early 20th century founder of Slabodka Yeshiva, Lithuania. Disciples opened major yeshivas in US and Israel
• Rogatchover Gaon
  Rogatchover Gaon
  
  The Rogatchover Gaon, Yosef Rosen , also known by the name of his main work Tzafnath Paneach, was a Rabbi and one of the prominent Talmudic scholars of the early 20th century, known as a "Gaon" because of his photographic memory and razor-sharp mind....
   (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader
• Boruch Greenfeld
  Boruch Greenfeld
  
  Reb Boruch Greenfield, , was a rabbi and Torah scholar. He was fondly known as Reb Burech Hermanshtater.Born in Michalovce, Slovakia , as a young child he was already recognized by all who met him as an extremely devout and diligent student....
  , (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), 20th century Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
• Yitzchok Hutner
  Yitzchok Hutner
  
  Yitzchok Hutner was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and American rosh yeshiva born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidic Judaism and non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews roots....
  , (Pachad Yitzchok), 20th century European-born, American and Israeli Rosh Yeshiva
• Yisrael Meir Kagan
  Yisrael Meir Kagan
  
  Yisrael Meir Kagan sobriquet as The Chofetz Chaim was an influential Eastern European rabbi, Halakha, and ethics whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life....
  , (Chofetz Chaim), 20th century Polish legalist and moralist
• Aryeh Kaplan
  Aryeh Kaplan
  
  Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was a noted United States Orthodox Judaism rabbi and author with a background in both physics and Judaism. He was lauded as an original thinker and prolific writer, from studies of the Torah, Talmud and Kabbalah to introductory pamphlets on Jewish beliefs and Jewish philosophy aimed at non-religious and Baal teshuva Jews....
  , (Living Torah) 20th century writer and mystic
• Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
  Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
  
  Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, , popularly known by the name of his magnum opus Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox Judaism rabbi who became leader of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953, were spent....
  , (Chazon Ish) 20th century Haredi leader in Israel
• Aharon Kotler
  Aharon Kotler
  
  Rabbi Aharon Kotler was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuanian Jews, and later the United States, where he built one of the first yeshivas in the US....
  , 20th century Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in US
• Chaim Kreiswirth
  Chaim Kreiswirth
  
  Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi who served as the longtime Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium. He was the founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem....
  , long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)
• Isser Zalman Meltzer
  Isser Zalman Meltzer
  
  Isser Zalman Meltzer, , was a famous Lithuanian Orthodox Judaism rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel", after the title of his commentary on Rambam's Mishne Torah....
  , renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
  Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
  
  Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was an early leader of Orthodox Judaism and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath, a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, and Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization....
  , (Mr. Mendlowitz) 20th century European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the US
• Shulem Moshkovitz
  Shotzer Rebbe
  
  Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, known as the Shotzer Rebbe, was born in Suceava, Romania. He was a descendant of the famed chasidic Rebbe Yechiel Mikhl of Zlotshov....
  , Hasidic rebbe in London
• Chanoch Dov Padwa
  Chanoch Dov Padwa
  
  Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa was a world-renowned Orthodox Judaism posek, Talmudist and rabbinic leader....
  , (Cheishev Ho'ephod), rabbinical head of UOHC, London
• Sholom Dovber Schneersohn
  Sholom Dovber Schneersohn
  
  Sholom Dovber Schneersohn was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the fifth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement. He is also known as "The Rebbe nishmosei eiden" and as "the Rebbe Rashab" ....
  , 20th century Russian fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, 20th century sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  
  Menachem Mendel Schneerson In 1950, upon the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, he assumed the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch....
  , (Lubavitcher Rebbe), 20th century Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Chabad Rebbe
• Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, 20th century British rabbi
• Shimon Shkop
  Shimon Shkop
  
  Rabbi Shimon Shkop was a rosh yeshiva in the Telshe yeshiva and a renowned Talmudic scholar. He was born in Tortz in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir Yeshiva , and at fifteen he went to Volozhin yeshiva where he studied six years....
  , famed Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno
• Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
  Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
  
  Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a kohen, and is therefore often referred to as Meir Simcha ha-Kohen ....
  , (Ohr Sameiach ; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
• Joel Teitelbaum
  Joel Teitelbaum
  
  Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, , known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungary Hasidic Judaism rebbe and Talmudic scholar....
  , (Satmar Rebbe), 20th century Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for anti-Zionism
• Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl
  Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl
  
  Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl was a rabbi and shtadlanwho became known for his efforts to save the Jews of Slovakia from extermination at the hands of the Nazism during the Holocaust....
  , (Min HaMeitzar) 20th century European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust

Modern rabbis

• Hermann Adler
  Hermann Adler
  
  Rabbi Dr. Hermann Adler Royal Victorian Order was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance."...
  , Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Meir Berlin, (Bar Ilan) 20th century religious Zionist leader
• Eliezer Berkovits
  Eliezer Berkovits
  
  Eliezer Berkovits , was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Modern Orthodox Judaism....
   Talmudic scholar and philosopher
• Israel Brodie
  Israel Brodie
  
  Sir Israel Brodie KBE was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations 1948–1965.He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford....
  , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Isidore Epstein
  Isidore Epstein
  
  Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein , was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England, who served as the longtime principal of Jews' College, London....
  , Principal of Jews' College, London
• Moses Gaster
  Moses Gaster
  
  Moses Gaster was a Romanian-born Jewish-United Kingdom scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, London, and a Hebrew language linguistics....
  , Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain
• Sir Hermann Gollancz
  Hermann Gollancz
  
  Sir Hermann Gollancz was a United Kingdom rabbi and Hebrew language scholar. He was the first rabbi to receive a knighthood .He was professor of Hebrew at University College, London....
  , British rabbi and professor
• Meir Kahane
  Meir Kahane
  
  Rabbi Meir David Kahane was an United States-Israeli Orthodox Judaism rabbi and a member of the Israeli Knesset.Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political, nationalist views, exemplified in his promotion of a Greater Israel based on Jewish law....
  , American-Israeli rabbi
  Rabbi
  
  Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
  , Jewish leader and Knesset
  Knesset
  
  The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
   member, assassinated in New York by Egyptian terrorist El Sayyid Nosair
  El Sayyid Nosair
  
  El Sayyid Nosair is an Egyptian-born United States citizen and terrorist, convicted of involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.In 1994, Nosair was convicted in Federal Court of nine counts, including sedition Conspiracy , murder in aid of racketeering, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, attempted murder of a postal police...
  . Founder of the American Jewish Defense League
  Jewish Defense League
  
  The Jewish Defense League is a Jewish organization whose stated goal is to protect Jews from antisemitism.Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City in 1968, JDL's self-described purpose was to protect Jews from harassment in Brooklyn, and to protest against local manifestations of antisemitism....
   and the Israeli Kach
  Kach and Kahane Chai
  
  Kach was a far right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Kahanism ideology, the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures....
   party.
• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
  Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
  
  Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane was the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane.Son of rabbi Meir Kahane, born in New York City, he emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four, in 1971....
  , Israeli leader of Kahane Chai
  Kach and Kahane Chai
  
  Kach was a far right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Kahanism ideology, the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures....
   party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane
• Yisrael Ariel
  Yisrael Ariel
  
  Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was the chief rabbi of the evacuated Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai desert during the years when the Sinai was controlled by Israel....
   is the founder of the Temple Institute
  Temple Institute
  
  The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash , is an organization in Israel focusing on the controversial endeavor of re-establishing the Third Temple....
  , from the liberators of the Western Wall
  Western Wall
  
  The Western Wall , sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall or simply the Kotel , and as al-Buraq Wall by Muslims, is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City ....
   in the Six-Day War
  Six-Day War
  
  In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
  .
• Joseph H. Hertz
  Joseph H. Hertz
  
  Early lifeRabbi Dr Joseph Herman Hertz, Doctor of Laws, Order of the Companions of Honour was born in Rebrin, Hungary , and emigrated to New York City in 1884....
  , Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
  Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
  
  Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman was a renowned Orthodox Judaism Talmudic scholar, Posek and rabbi and served as a Beth din#Officers of a Beth/Beis Din of the London Beth Din....
  , British rabbi and dayan
• Moses Hyamson
  Moses Hyamson
  
  Rabbi Dr. Moses Hyamson was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi, former head Dayan of the London Beth Din and between 1911 and 1913, acting Chief Rabbi of the British Empire....
  , British rabbi
• Abraham Isaac Kook
  Abraham Isaac Kook
  
  File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
  , 20th century philosopher and mystic, first chief rabbi of Palestine
• Immanuel Jakobovits
  Immanuel Jakobovits
  
  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits of Regent's Park in Greater London, Order of the British Empire was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1967 to 1991....
  , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist
• Moses Mescheloff
  Moses Mescheloff
  
  Rabbi Dr. Moses Mescheloff was a renowned American Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and community leader for 75 years, known especially within circles of American Orthodox Judaism, primarily in Miami Beach, Florida, and in Chicago, Illinois....
  , Miami Beach and Chicago, Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Rabbi
• Chalom Messas
  Chalom Messas
  
  Chalom Messas, , was the Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and after making aliyah became the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He wrote many works: Mizrah Chemech, Tevouot Chemech, Chemech Oumaguen, Beit Chemech and Veham Hachemech....
  , chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem
• David Messas
  David Messas
  
  Rabbi David Messas is the son of Rabbi Chalom Messas the former Chief Rabbi of Morocco. He married Dolly Berdugo. He headed the Ecole Yavne in Paris....
  , chief Rabbi of Paris.
• Jonathan Sacks
  Jonathan Sacks
  
  Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations....
  , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• David Silverman, Outreach Rabbi with the Atlanta Scholars Kollel
• Simeon Singer
  Simeon Singer
  
  Simeon Singer was a Jewish preacher, lecturer and public worker.He was born in London, and after a short stay at a Hungarian school, became a student at Jews' College, of which he was subsequently for a time the principal....
  , editor of the United Synagogue
  United Synagogue
  
  United Synagogue is an organisation of London Judaism that was founded with the sanction of an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, in 1870....
   prayer book
• Joseph Soloveitchik
  Joseph Soloveitchik
  
  Joseph Ber Soloveitchik w was an United States Orthodox Judaism rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosophy. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jews Brisk yeshivas....
  , 20th century European-born Talmudist and philosopher
• Selig Starr
  Selig Starr
  
  Rabbi Selig Starr born Zelig Starobinski was a 20th century talmudic scholar in Poland, Chicago and Jerusalem. As the instructor of the highest-level Shiur at Skokie, Illinois's Hebrew Theological College, he was responsible for most of Orthodox rabbinical students in the Chicago area over several decades....
  , Chicago
  Chicago
  
  Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
   Rabbi
• Rabbi Alan Bright, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Rabbi Spiritual Leader

Orthodox rabbis: Contemporary

Haredi

• Gerrer Rebbes
  Ger (Hasidic dynasty)
  
  Ger, or Gur is a Hasidic Judaism dynasty originating from Ger, the Yiddish language name of G?ra Kalwaria, a small town in Poland.Prior to the Holocaust, Ger was the largest and most important Hasidic group in Poland....
  , (Gerrer), Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the US and UK
• Vizhnitzer Rebbes, (Vizhnitzer), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the US
• Shlomo Amar
  Shlomo Amar
  
  Rabbi Shlomo Amar has been the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His colleague is Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
  , Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Arie Zeev Raskin
  Arie Zeev Raskin
  
  Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, born in 1976, is the chief rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years. He moved to Cyprus in 2003 with his wife Shaindel and their children in an effort to introduce Jewish life onto the island....
  , Chief Rabbi of Cyprus
• Meir Brandsdorfer
  Meir Brandsdorfer
  
  Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer is a member of the Beth din of the Edah HaChareidis, the chareidi Ashkenazic community in Jerusalem.He is also the Dayan of the Shomer Emunim movement of Hasidic Judaism, based in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim....
  , member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the Edah HaChareidis
• Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
  Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
  
  Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv is a Haredi Judaism rabbi and posek who lives in Jerusalem, Israel.Presently well into his nineties, he is active and remains the paramount leader of Israel's Lithuanian Jews non-Hasidic Judaism Haredi Ashkenazi Jews who regard him as the posek ha-dor , the contemporary leading authority on halakha, o...
  , Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the chareidi world
• Menachem Genack
  Menachem Genack
  
  Menachem Genack is an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher food. The Forward listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States....
  , OU
  Orthodox Union
  
  The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America , more popularly known as the Orthodox Union, or OU, is one of the oldest Orthodox Judaism organizations in the United States....
  
• Yitzchak Kadouri, leading 20th century Kabbalist (deceased)
• Yaakov Kamenetsky
  Yaakov Kamenetsky
  
  Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky , was a prominent rosh yeshiva, posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community.He was born in the hamlet of Kalushkove, Lithuania, in 1891....
  , rabbinical leader and educationalist
• Nissim Karelitz
  Nissim Karelitz
  
  Rabbi Nissim Karelitz is the chairman of the beis din tzedek of Bnei Brak.He is one of the most highly respected Orthodox rabbis in the world and one of the most important leaders of the Haredi world, together with Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv and Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner....
  , respected Israeli chareidi leader
• Yona Metzger
  Yona Metzger
  
  Yona Metzger has been the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
  , Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Israel Meir Lau, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
• Shlomo Miller
  Shlomo Miller
  
  Rabbi Shlomo Eliyahu Miller is a Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Avreichim Institute for Advanced Talmud Study, the leading haredi post-yeshiva educational institution in Toronto and head of its Beis Din ....
  , head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized world authority of Jewish law
• Avigdor Nebenzahl, Chief Rabbi of the old city of Jerusalem
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II)
  Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II)
  
  Yissachar Dov Rokeach is the fifth and present Rebbe of the Hasidic Judaism dynasty of Belz . He is the son of Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgorai and the nephew of the fourth Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, who raised him....
  , Belzer Rebbe
• Moshe Sacks
  Moshe Sacks
  
  Rabbi Moshe Sacks, also known as the Matnas Moshe, is a prominent rabbi belonging to the Satmar Hasidic movement. He is a dayan and posek affiliated with the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical council of Jerusalem, and spiritual leader of the Bnos Rochel girl's schools in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh....
  , posek
  Posek
  
  Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
  .
• Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
  Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
  
  Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg is a Polish-born rabbi and rosh yeshiva, currently living in Israel. He heads the yeshiva Torah Ore in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Mattersdorf....
  , dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Bezalel Rudinsky
  Bezalel Rudinsky
  
  Rabbi Bezalel Rudinsky is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi who lives in Monsey, New York.Rabbi Rudinsky is the rabbi of in Monsey, N.Y., and founder and Rosh HaYeshiva of and Yeshivas Darchei Noam, both located in Wesley Hills, N.Y....
  , dean of Yeshivas Ohr Reuven, Wesley Hills, N.Y.
• Adin Steinsaltz
  Adin Steinsaltz
  
  Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz or Adin Even Yisrael is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation of both Talmuds into Hebrew language, French language, Russian language and Spanish language....
  , 21st century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher
• Moshe Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe (deceased)
• Ovadia Yosef
  Ovadia Yosef
  
  Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Sephardi Jews Haredi Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakha authority. He is the former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli Knesset....
  , 21st century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry
• Amnon Yitzhak
  Amnon Yitzhak
  
  Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak , is a well-known Orthodox Judaism Haredi Judaism Israeli rabbi of Yemenite origin.Rabbi Yitzhak is widely involved in "kiruv" ....
  , leading Yemenite "baal teshuva Rabbi" in Israel

Hardal

Hardal

Hardal refers to those Haredi Jews who support the ideology of religious Zionism....
 

• Mordechai Eliyahu
  Mordechai Eliyahu
  
  Mordechai Eliyahu is a former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbi of Israel....
   - former Sephardic Chief Rabbi
• Avraham Shapira
  Avraham Shapira
  
  Avraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira , was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinic court of Jerusalem, and both a member and the head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court....
   - former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, the head of Mercaz haRav
  Mercaz haRav
  
  Mercaz HaRav , also known as Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav, is a Hardal yeshiva situated in Jerusalem, Israel. The yeshiva was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and was initially headed by Rabbi Aharon Bronstein, the Ilui of Tebrig....
   yeshiva
  Yeshiva
  
  Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
  
• Dov Lior
  Dov Lior
  
  Dov Lior is the Chief Rabbi of Committee of The Jewish Community of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank. He is also the rosh yeshiva Kiryat Arba Hesder, and also heads the "Council of Rabbis of Yesha"....
   - rabbi of Hebron
  Hebron
  
  Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis....
  
• Moshe Mordechai haCohen Taub -rabbi of Buffalo Jewish community and director of the city Vaad, prolific writer

Modern Orthodox

• Benjamin Blech
  Benjamin Blech
  
  Benjamin Blech, born in Zurich, is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi who lives in New York City.Rabbi Blech has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside of 37 years....
  , author
• Levi Brackman
  Levi Brackman
  
  Levi Brackman is a journalist, Judaic scholar, rabbi, 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, including Yedioth Ahronoth, and on the ....
  , British-born rabbi
• David Bar Hayim, founder of Machon Ben Yishai, Proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
• Mordechai Breuer
  Mordechai Breuer
  
  Mordechai Breuer was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh , and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex....
  , Israeli rabbi, descendant of Samson Raphael Hirsch
  Samson Raphael Hirsch
  
  Samson Raphael Hirsch was a Germany rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism....
  
• Barry Freundel
  Barry Freundel
  
  Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Judaism Jewish world.A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics....
  , rabbi of Kesher Israel
  Kesher Israel
  
  Kesher Israel is an Orthodox Judaism synagogue located in the Georgetown, Washington, D.C. of Washington, D.C. Barry Freundel is its rabbi.The synagogue attracted media attention when a member, Senator Joseph Lieberman, was nominated for vice president on the Democratic Party ticket....
   congregation in Washington DC.
• Mark Dratch
  Mark Dratch
  
  Rabbi Mark Dratch is the founder of JSAFE .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 r...
  , Instructor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University
  
  Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
   and founder of JSafe
• James Kennard
  James Kennard
  
  Rabbi James Kennard is an educationalist in the Australian Judaism community. He was previously Headteacher of King Solomon High School in Barkingside, London....
  , British educationalist
• Norman Lamm
  Norman Lamm
  
  Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm is a major United States modern Orthodox Judaism Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor_#United_States of Yeshiva University....
  , 20th century American modern Orthodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University
• Aharon Lichtenstein
  Aharon Lichtenstein
  
  Aharon Lichtenstein is a noted Orthodox Judaism rabbi and rosh yeshiva.Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner....
  , Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion
  Yeshivat Har Etzion
  
  Yeshivat Har Etzion , commonly known as "Gush," is an elite Hesder located in Alon Shvut, a settlement in Gush Etzion near Jerusalem, Israel....
  , and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University
  
  Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
  's Gruss Kollel.
• Yosef Mendelevitch
  Yosef Mendelevitch
  
  Yosef Mendelevitch , was a well-known Jewish Refusenik in the former Soviet Union who gained fame for his adherence to Zionism and public attempts to emigrate to Israel at a time when it was considered to be against the law in the USSR....
   former Soviet "Refusenik" and Zionist activist
• Shlomo Riskin
  Shlomo Riskin
  
  Shlomo Riskin is the United States founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat, was the dean of Manhattan Day School in New York City, 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 Israe...
  , Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel
• Berel Lazar
  Berel Lazar
  
  Rabbi Berel Lazar is an Orthodox Judaism rabbi affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic Judaism movement. He is presently one of two claimants to the title "Chief Rabbi of Russia", is the chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities....
  , Chief Rabbi of Russia
• Hershel Schachter
  Hershel Schachter
  
  Hershel Schachter is a rabbi and rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary , Yeshiva University, in New York City, and the son of the late Rabbi Melech Schachter, who was also a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva....
  , leading posek
  Posek
  
  Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
   for the modern orthodox community.
• Andrew Shaw
  Andrew Shaw
  
  Rabbi Andrew Shaw is the Community Rabbi, formerly the Youth Rabbi in Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue, the largest Jewish community in the United Kingdom and Europe....
  , British rabbi and youth leader
• Zvi Sobolofsky
  Zvi Sobolofsky
  
  Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City.Rabbi Sobolofsky studied at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and Yeshiva University; graduating in 1987, he was named valedictorian of the Mazer Yeshiva Program....
  , Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University
  
  Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
   and rabbi of Ohr Hatorah in Bergenfield, New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
  
• Joseph Telushkin
  Joseph Telushkin
  
  Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is an United States Modern Orthodox Judaism rabbi, lecturer, and author.Telushkin attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, was Ordination at Yeshiva University, and studied Jewish history at Columbia University....
  , author.
• Moshe David Tendler
  Moshe David Tendler
  
  Moshe David Tendler is the rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey, New York. 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 ....
  , son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein
  Moshe Feinstein
  
  Moshe Feinstein was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi, scholar and posek , who was world-renowned for his expertise in Halakha and was regarded by many as the de facto supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America....
  , and noted bioethist.
• Mordechai Willig
  Mordechai Willig
  
  'Mordechai Willig' is an Orthodox Judaism Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan. His formal title is the Rabbi Dr....
  , Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University
  
  Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
  , prominent Posek
  Posek
  
  Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
   for the Modern Orthodox community.
• Manis Friedman
  Manis Friedman
  
  Rabbi Manis Friedman is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid. He is a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies....
  , a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
• Benjamin Yudin
  Benjamin Yudin
  
  Benjamin Yudin is an United States rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community. He lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where he is rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Torah....
  , rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn
  Fair Lawn, New Jersey
  
  Fair Lawn is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 31,637....
  , New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
  
• Dov Zakheim
  Dov Zakheim
  
  Dov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government.Born December 18, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St Antony's College, Oxford, Oxford University....
  , non-practicing modern Orthodox rabbi, economic and political leader in US government

Conservative rabbis

See: Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism is a modern Jewish denominations of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s....
.

Conservative rabbis: 19th century

• Zecharias Frankel
  Zecharias Frankel
  
  Zecharias Frankel was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague and died in Breslau ....
  , 19th century critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, the progenitor of Conservative Judaism.
• Yosef Guttmann, 19th century Polish rabbi
• Levi Herzfeld
  Levi Herzfeld
  
  Levi Herzfeld was a German rabbi and historian....
  , 19th century German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform
• Nachman Krochmal
  Nachman Krochmal
  
  Nachman Kohen Krochmal was a Jewish Austrian philosopher, theology, and historian....
  , 19th century Austrian philosopher and historian

Conservative rabbis: 20th century

• Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  
  Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th century....
  , 20th century Conservative Judaism philosopher and scholar of Hasidism
• Solomon Schechter
  Solomon Schechter
  
  Solomon Schechter ?????? ???? ???? was a Moldavian-born Romanian and England rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the United States Conservative Judaism movement....
  , 20th century scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
• Saul Lieberman
  Saul Lieberman
  
  Saul Lieberman , also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh , was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research....
  , 20th century rabbi and scholar
• Marshall Meyer
  Marshall Meyer
  
  Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer was an USA-born Conservative rabbi and a recognized international human rights activist.He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1952....
  , 20th century American Conservative rabbi and human rights activist, founded a Rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina
• Louis Finkelstein
  Louis Finkelstein
  
  Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar and expert in Halakha. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the first American seminary of Conservative Judaism....
  , 20th century Conservative Talmud scholar
• Louis Ginzberg
  Louis Ginzberg
  
  Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City....
  , 20th century American Conservative Talmud scholar
• Wolfe Kelman, 20th century Canadian Conservative rabbi
• Robert Gordis
  Robert Gordis
  
  Robert Gordis was a leading Conservative rabbi. He founded the first Conservative Judaism day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary from 1940 to 1992....
  , 20th century leader in Conservative Judaism
• Abraham Millgram, 20th century American Conservative rabbi and author
• Isaac Klein
  Isaac Klein
  
  Isaac Klein was a prominent rabbi and halakhah authority within Conservative Judaism....
  , 20th century American Conservative rabbi and scholar
• Samuel Schafler
  Samuel Schafler
  
  Samuel Schafler was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator. He was Superintendent of the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and President of Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts....
  , 20th century American Conservative rabbi and historian

Conservative rabbis: Contemporary

• Bradley Shavit Artson
  Bradley Shavit Artson
  
  Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is an author, speaker, and the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, where he is Vice-President....
  , Conservative rabbi, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
  Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
  
  The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, informally known as the "Ziegler School" or simply "Ziegler", is the graduate program of study leading to Ordination as Conservative Rabbis at the American Jewish University ....
   at the American Jewish University, author, speaker, and theologian
• Menachem Creditor
  Menachem Creditor
  
  'Rabbi Menachem Creditor' founded and co-founded Keshet Rabbis .Creditor studied at the in New York City for s'micha and a masters in Jewish education....
  , Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network
• Elliot N. Dorff
  Elliot N. Dorff
  
  Elliot N. Dorff is a Conservative Judaism rabbi, a professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University in California , author, and a bio-ethicist....
  , Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and proffesor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University
• Neil Gillman
  Neil Gillman
  
  Neil Gillman is an USA rabbi and philosopher, affiliated with Conservative Judaism....
  , Conservative philosopher and theologian
• David Golinkin
  David Golinkin
  
  David Golinkin is a rabbi, author and President and Rector of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel. He is a major halachic authority in the Masorti Judaism movement in Israel....
   - Masorti rabbi and halakhist
• Reuven Hammer
  Reuven Hammer
  
  Reuven Hammer is a Jewish rabbi and author, affiliated with the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom and in the State of Israel. The Masorti movement is a part of Conservative Judaism....
   - Masorti rabbi, author and siddur commentator.
• Joshua Hammerman, Conservative rabbi of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Connecticut
• Jules Harlow
  Jules Harlow
  
  Jules Harlow is a rabbi and liturgist; son of Henry and Lena Lipman Harlow. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa.In 1952 at Morningside College in Sioux City he earned a B.A., and from there went to New York City to study in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; here he became ordained as a rabbi in 1959....
  , 20th century Conservative Judaism liturgist
• Louis Jacobs
  Louis Jacobs
  
  Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs , was a Masorti rabbi, the first leader of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and thinker on Judaism....
   - Founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian
• William E. Kaufman
  William E. Kaufman
  
  William E. Kaufman is a rabbi, a philosopher, and an author of several books and academic articles.He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative Judaism....
   - Advocate of process theology
  Process theology
  
  Process theology is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead . While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian school....
  
• Harold Kushner
  Harold Kushner
  
  Harold S. Kushner is a prominent United States rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism....
  , 21st century American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer
• William H. Lebeau
  William H. Lebeau
  
  William H. Lebeau is an United States rabbi, and former Dean of The Rabbinical School, Vice Chancellor and Chairman of the Department of Professional Skills, and Lecturer of Professional Skills at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America of Conservative Judaism in New York City....
  , Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary
• Aaron L. Mackler
  Aaron L. Mackler
  
  Aaron L. Mackler is Associate Professor of Theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an ordained Conservative Judaism Rabbi....
  , Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
• Jacob Neusner
  Jacob Neusner
  
  Jacob Neusner is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck , New York, New York ....
  , Conservative trained scholar and prolific writer
• Daniel Nevins, Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism.
• Paula Reimers
  Paula Reimers
  
  Paula Reimers is an American rabbi. As of 2008 she was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel . Reimers is one of the first women to be ordained by the Conservative movement?s Jewish Theological Seminary of America....
  
• Joel Roth
  Joel Roth
  
  Joel Roth is a prominent United States 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 which deals with questions of Halakha, and serves as the Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish...
  , Conservative scholar and rabbi
• Ismar Schorsch
  Ismar Schorsch
  
  Ismar Schorsch was the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history. He served as Chancellor for 19 years and retired on June 30, 2006....
  , Conservative educator and leader
• Harold M. Schulweis
  Harold M. Schulweis
  
  Harold M. Schulweis is a rabbi, author, and a longtime Spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA. Known for his highly skilled oratory, 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 reviv...
  , Conservative rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA and founder of the Jewish World Watch
  Jewish World Watch
  
  The Jewish World Watch is an NGO based out of Southern California, a coalition of synagogues and Jewish groups with the objective of educating, advocating, and donating in order to combat genocide and other human rights violations all over the world....
  
• Alan Silverstein
  Alan Silverstein
  
  Alan Silverstein is an American Conservative Judaism 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....
  , Conservative rabbi of in Caldwell, New Jersey and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly
  Rabbinical Assembly
  
  The Rabbinical Assembly is the international association of Conservative Judaism rabbis. The RA was founded in 1901 to shape the ideology, programs, and practices of the Conservative movement....
  
• Arnold Stiebel
  Arnold Stiebel
  
  Arnold S. Stiebel, Ph.D. is an American rabbi. He is a member of both the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis....
  , Conservative rabbi and author
• Gordon Tucker
  Gordon Tucker
  
  Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism. He currently has a position as senior rabbi of Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York, New York....
  , Conservative rabbi and leader
• Stewart Vogel
  Stewart Vogel
  
  Rabbi Stewart Vogel is a prominent Conservative Judaism rabbi serving as senior rabbi of Temple Aliyah. in Woodland Hills, California. Vogel is the current president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and active in committees of the international organization of Conservative rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly....
  , Conservative rabbi of Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills, CA
• David Wolpe
  David Wolpe
  
  David J. Wolpe is an author, public speaker and rabbi in Los Angeles, California. Named the #1 pulpit Rabbi in America by Newsweek magazine , he is considered a leader of the Conservative Judaism movement....
  , Conservative rabbi of Temple Sinai in Los Angeles, California

Conservative rabbinical organizations

• Rabbinical Assembly
  Rabbinical Assembly
  
  The Rabbinical Assembly is the international association of Conservative Judaism rabbis. The RA was founded in 1901 to shape the ideology, programs, and practices of the Conservative movement....
  
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  
  The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is the primary organization of synagogues practicing Conservative Judaism in North America. It closely works with the Rabbinical Assembly, the international body of Conservative Rabbis, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies....
  
• Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
  Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
  
  The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is the central authority on halakha within Conservative Judaism; it is one of the most active and widely known committees on the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly....
  

Union for Traditional Judaism

• David Weiss Halivni
  David Weiss Halivni
  
  Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is an United States Israelis world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Judaism and professor of Talmud, born in Carpathian Ruthenia....
  , Hungarian-American Talmudist of Union for Traditional Judaism
  Union for Traditional Judaism
  
  The Union for Traditional Judaism is an ostensibly non-denominational Jewish educational, outreach and communal service organization. The UTJ, as it is known, sees itself as trans-denominational, and works to encourage traditional observance among all Jews....
   (UTJ)

Reform rabbis

See Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in Reform Judaism and in Reform Judaism ....
.

Reform rabbis: 19th century

• Samuel Adler
  Samuel Adler (rabbi)
  
  Samuel Adler was a leading Germany-United States Reform Judaism rabbi, Talmud, and author. He was also the father of Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture....
  , 19th century German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
• Emil Hirsch
  Emil Hirsch
  
  Emil Gustav Hirsch was a major Reform Judaism rabbi in the United States.Hirsch was born in Luxembourg, a son of the rabbi and philosopher Samuel Hirsch....
  , 19th century American Reform rabbi and scholar
• David Einhorn
  David Einhorn
  
  David Einhorn was a German rabbi and leader of the Jewish reform Judaism movement in the United States of America. He was born in Dispeck, Bavaria....
  , 19th century American Reform rabbi
• Samuel Hirsch
  Samuel Hirsch
  
  Samuel Hirsch, was a major Reform Judaism religious philosopher and rabbi.Born in Thalfang, He first became rabbi at Dessau in 1838 but was forced to resign in 1841 because he promoted a radically liberal form of Judaism, later to become known as classic German Reform Judaism....
  , 19th century German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
• Abraham Geiger
  Abraham Geiger
  
  Abraham Geiger was a Germany rabbi and scholar who led in the foundation of Reform Judaism, seeking to remove all nationalistic elements from Judaism, stressing it as an evolving and changing religion....
  , 19th century German Reform ideologist
• Samuel Holdheim
  Samuel Holdheim
  
  Samuel Holdheim was a German rabbi and author, and one of the more extreme leaders of the early Reform Judaism movement. Although Holdheim was a pioneer in modern Jewish homiletics, he was often at odds with the Orthodoxy....
  , 19th century German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism
• Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy
  Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy
  
  Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy , born in Budapest, Hungary, December 23 1820; died at Cambridge, March 111890) was a Hungarian rabbi and academic....
  , 19th century Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first jewish professor in Cambridge
• Leopold Zunz
  Leopold Zunz
  
  Leopold Zunz was the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" , the critical investigation of rabbinic literature, hymnology and ritual....
  , 19th century German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school
• Isaac Mayer Wise, American Reform rabbi

Reform rabbis: 20th century

• Paula Ackerman
  Paula Ackerman
  
  Paula Ackerman was the first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States . She also led the National Committee on Religious Schools for the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi (first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained)
• Leo Baeck
  Leo Baeck
  
  Leo Baeck was an 20th century Germany-Poland-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi
• Lionel Blue
  Lionel Blue
  
  Lionel Blue is a British Reform Judaism rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first openly gay British rabbi. Born in the East End of London, he was the only son of a master tailor....
  , British rabbi, writer and broadcaster
• Julia Neuberger, British Reform rabbi
• Sally Priesand
  Sally Priesand
  
  Sally Jane Priesand is America's first ordained female rabbi. Rabbi Priesand was ordained in June, 1972, by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi, first ordained female rabbi in the United States
• Abba Hillel Silver
  Abba Hillel Silver
  
  Abba Hillel Silver was a United States Rabbi and Zionism leader....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
• Gabriel Farhi, 20th century French Reform rabbi and broadcaster.
• Stephen S. Wise, 20th century Reform rabbi and Zionist activist
• Arnold Stiebel
  Arnold Stiebel
  
  Arnold S. Stiebel, Ph.D. is an American rabbi. He is a member of both the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism's Central Conference of American Rabbis....
  , 20th century rabbi and author
• Laszlo Berkowitz, 20th century Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom
• Gunther Plaut
  Gunther Plaut
  
  Wolf Gunther Plaut, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Reform Judaism rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and is currently its Rabbi Emeritus....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple
• Maurice Davis
  Maurice Davis (rabbi)
  
  Maurice Davis was a Rabbi, and human rights activist. He was a past director of the American Family Foundation, now known as the International Cultic Studies Association....
  , 20th century Reform rabbi, past Chairman, President's Commission on Equal Opportunity
• Susan Abramson, Reform Rabbi, Shalom Emeth, Burlington, MA, one of the first 50 women rabbis. Author of the Rabbi Rocketpower children book series.

Reform rabbinical organizations

• Union for Reform Judaism
  Union for Reform Judaism
  
  The Union for Reform Judaism , formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations , is an organization which supports Reform Judaism congregations in North America....
  
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
  Central Conference of American Rabbis
  
  The Central Conference of American Rabbis , founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the principal organization of Reform Judaism rabbis in the United States and Canada....
  

Reconstructionist rabbis

See: Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Judaism Jewish denominations based on the ideas of the late Mordecai Kaplan . The movement views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization....
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Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th century

• Mordecai Kaplan
  Mordecai Kaplan
  
  Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.Kaplan was born in Lithuania and was Semicha at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in 1902....
  , 20th century founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America

Reconstructionist rabbis: Contemporary

• Carol Harris-Shapiro
  Carol Harris-Shapiro
  
  Carol Harris-Shapiro is a lecturer at Temple University in the Intellectual Heritage Department. She has written a highly controversial book on Messianic Judaism, a belief system adhered to by loosely linked groups that seek to combine Christianity with Judaism....
  , modern author
• Dan Ehrenkrantz
  Dan Ehrenkrantz
  
  Dan Ehrenkrantz is an American Reconstructionist rabbi, currently serving as the fifth president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania....
  , president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Other rabbis

• Capers C. Funnye Jr.
  Capers C. Funnye Jr.
  
  Capers C. Funnye Jr. is a Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_African_diaspora#North_America who is the head rabbi of the mostly African-American 200 member Beth Shalom B?nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, as assisted by Rabbis Avraham Ben Israel and Joshua V....
   first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis
• Michael Lerner
  Michael Lerner (rabbi)
  
  Michael Lerner is an United States rabbi, political activist, the editor of Tikkun , a Progressivism Jewish and interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco....
   founder/editor of Tikkun magazine
• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  
  Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, b. and commonly called "Reb Zalman" is considered one of the major founders of the Jewish Renewal movement....
  , leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Sherwin Wine
  Sherwin Wine
  
  Sherwin Theodore Wine was a rabbi and a founding figure in Humanistic Judaism. Originally Semicha a Reform Judaism rabbi, Wine founded the Birmingham Temple, the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism in 1963, in Birmingham, Michigan, outside Detroit, Michigan ....
  , US founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism
• Itzhak Yehoshua
  Itzhak Yehoshua
  
  Rabbi Itzhak Yehoshua is said to be the Chief Rabbi of the Bukharian Rabbinical Council of America. He graduated a polytechnical school in the microcomputer specialization and programming....
  , Chief Rabbi of Bukharian Jewish Community in USA & Canada

External links

Orthodox

• , Orthodox Union
• , famousrabbis.com
• , chabad.org
• , tzemachdovid.org
• , chaburas.org
• (PDF)

Conservative

Pan-denominational

• , kolel.org
• , torahproductions.com

African-American

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