Akiva Grunblatt is an Orthodox rabbi who as co-rosh yeshiva (dean) heads[1] the Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. (Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim)[2] in Flushing, New York. (The other co-rosh yeshiva is Rabbi Dovid Harris[3].) Before being appointed to his current position in 2000, he was a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Miami, Florida.