Saul Berman
Saul J. Berman (born April 30, 1939) is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi.
Rabbi Berman was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law, a J.D., at New York University, and an M.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with David Daube. He spent two years studying mishpat ivri in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.
Berman was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California) from 1963 to 1969, of Young Israel of Brookline from 1969 to 1971, and senior rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, New York from 1984 to 1990.[1]
He serves as an associate professor at Yeshiva University[2] and now teaches at Columbia University Law School.[3][4]
Berman was the founder and director of the defunct Edah organization for the promotion of Modern Orthodoxy. Due to financial constraints, Edah was absorbed into the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
He is married to Shellee Berman, they have four children and eight grandchildren.
References
- ↑ Our Staff, Edah website. Accessed August 19, 2009.
- ↑ YU ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF JEWISH STUDIES, YU website. Accessed January 22, 2014.
- ↑ ["An Orthodox Choice," San Jose Mercury News (CA) - September 30, 2000 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB715B960C2A09B&p_field_direct-0=document_id]
- ↑ http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Saul_Berman