Rabbi Gershon Bacon - Associate Professor of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, where he occupies the Klein Chair for the History of the Rabbinate in Europe in Modern Times. Author of The Politics of Tradition. Agudat Yisrael in Poland 1916-1939. Member of UTJ’s Panel of Halakhic Inquiry.
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni - Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish
Civilization at Columbia University and Chairman of its
Department of Religion.
Reish Metivta of the UTJ’s Institute of Traditional
Judaism. Recipient of Israel’s coveted Bialik Prize
and author of numerous books, including the nine-volume
commentary on rabbinic literature, Sources and
Traditions, and the inspiring Holocaust memoir,
The Book and the Sword. He is considered by many
to be the world’s greatest living Talmudist.
Rabbi Leonard R. Levy - Has taught at several rabbinical schools including the ITJ. Spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of Forest Hills West in Middle Village, NY. Rabbi Levy also chairs the UTJ Publications Committee.
Rabbi David Novak - J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor at the University of Toronto. A founder and Vice President of the UTJ, member of the Academic Advisory Council of the ITJ, and coordinator of the UTJ’s Panel of Halakhic Inquiry. Author of numerous volumes on Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy, and a renowned expert on interfaith dialogue. His latest book is Covenantal Rights.
Rabbi Ronald D. Price - Executive Vice President of the UTJ and the Dean of the Metivta. Co-creator of “Taking the MTV Challenge,” a Jewish response to pop culture, which is now taught in more than 300 educational institutions across the denominational spectrum. Also serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ.
Hakham Isaac Sassoon - (The title “hakham” is the Sephardic equivalent of the Ashkenazic “rabbi.”) A founding faculty member of the Institute of Traditional Judaism, he is the author of Ha-arev Na, a commentary on Torah, recently published in English. Hakham Sassoon studied at the Gateshead Yeshiva in England, and is knowledgeable of both Sephardic and Ashkenazic scholarship.
Rabbi Richard Wolpoe - Rabbi of Congregation Ohav Sholaum, ordained by Yeshiva University/Reits and graduate of Bernard Revel Graduate School, majoring in Jewish history. Rabbi Wolpoe is a pioneer on the "Jewish Internet" discussion groups such as UTJ-L and Aishdas Society's Avodah List.
Rabbi Alan J. Yuter - Faculty member of the ITJ and adjunct faculty member of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he teaches Judaic Studies. Author of many articles and papers on Jewish law and Jewish thought. Rabbi Yuter was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi M.D. Tendler, and the Israeli Sephardic Rabbinate, and holds a Ph.D. in Modern Hebrew Literature from New York University.
