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Rabbi Hershel Billet is a YU Musmach with an MA in Jewish History. He is Past President of the RCA , Chairman of their Israel Commission, and on the OU Executive Board. He has been Rabbi of the Young Israel of Woodmere for the past 28 years.
Mrs. Renee (Rookie) Billet has a Masters from the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She lectures on topics related to Jewish women, family, education and community. She has served in both formal and informal Jewish educational settings since her college years. Currently, she is the principal of Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck, NJ, having previously served as assistant principal at both the Stella K. Abraham (HALB) High School and Yeshiva University High School for Girls.
Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen
Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen is the Rabbi of the Aitz Chaim Congregation in West Palm Beach, Florida. A prolific writer who has published over one thousand articles in the Anglo-Jewish media, he contributes a popular weekly article, entitled “Halachic Questions”, to the Jewish Press newspaper
RABBI SAUL DJANOGLY
Rabbi Saul Djanogly,age 50 is an unusual Jewish educator in that be earns his living as the owner of a successful wealth management business. His great passion & hobby though is adult Jewish education in which he has been actively involved for nearly 30 years.
RABBI SHALOM LIPSKAR
Since receiving ordination from the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn in 1968, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar has worked as an emissary for the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In 1969 he founded the Landow yeshiva Center in Miami Beach, Florida. He has served as its principal and dean of its elementary, academy, and high school studies.
MR. STEPHEN SAVITSKY
Stephen J. Savitsky of Hewlett, Long Island, NY, was installed as the Orthodox Union's President at its Biennial National Convention in Jerusalem in November, 2004. Mr. Savitsky had been Chairman of the Board since the previous OU Convention in December, 2002.
RABBI STEVEN WEIL
Rabbi Steven Weil is the Executive Vice President, the chief professional officer of the Orthodox Union. In that capacity, he will have day-to-day responsibility for running the largest Orthodox synagogue umbrella group in the world, overseeing its staff and programs, maintaining fiscal responsibility, and above all, projecting an image of leadership and vision throughout the Orthodox Jewish community worldwide.
RABBI MARVIN HIER
In 1977 Rabbi Hier came to Los Angeles to create the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named in honor of famed Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. Under his leadership, the Center has become one of the foremost Jewish human rights agencies in the world, with a constituency of more than 400,000 families, and offices throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe, Israel and Argentina. In 1993, an article in the Los Angeles Times noted that Rabbi Hier had made the Wiesenthal Center, "the most visible Jewish organization in the world" and, in 2007, an article in Newsweek named him the "number one most influential rabbi in America."
RABBI DR. BASIL HERRING
Rabbi Dr. Basil Herring is the chief executive of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest association of Orthodox Rabbis in the world. He has served in that position since July 2003. Given his position, he plays a leadership role on a day to day in dealing with many of the major religious, cultural, communal, and political issues and challenges currently facing the Jewish community, both internally and in relationship to the world at large. He is also instrumental in providing professional, educational, and support services for the 1000 members of the RCA.
RABBI DR. SHLOMO RISKIN
A distinguished communal Rabbi for over 35 years, Rabbi Riskin continues to change the face of modern Orthodox Jewry in Israel and the Diaspora. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rabbi Riskin graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1960, where he majored in Greek, Latin and English literatures. He received his Smicha (rabbinical ordination) from the eminent Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Rabbi Riskin holds a Master's Degree in Jewish History and was awarded his PhD from New York University's department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature.
Rabbi Maurice Lamm
is the author of five major books (include The Power of Hope and a CD-ROM entitled Love and Marriage. He is most popularly known for his The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning, first issued in 1969 and considered one of the best Jewish books of the year by The New York Time.
Rabbi Marc Schneier
is a leading personality and spokesperson for the Jewish community. The Forward, in its annual survey of Jewish leaders, named Rabbi Schneier one of the 50 most prominent Jews in the United States, and Newsweek Magazine named him one of America's top 50 rabbis
Rabbi Levi Shemtov
RABBI LEVI SHEMTOV is the Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington, DC, and is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic young Jewish leaders today. In this capacity, he serves the community of Washington, DC, as well as the daily governmental and diplomatic needs of the international Chabad-Lubavitch movement, the largest and fastest growing Jewish network of educational and social service institutions in the world, with over 3,500 centers in 47 states and over 80 countries.
Rabbi Eliezer Shusterman
Rabbi Eliezer Shusterman is the Associate Rabbi at Shaare Torah Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the past 16 years. He is a dynamic speaker who engages men and women of all ages and backgrounds. Speaking topics have included Tefilla Today, Jewish Mysticism, and Judaism for Beginners. Rabbi Shusterman received his Smicha from the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva. He has traveled the world and lectured in Australia, South Africa, Asia, and Europe.
RABBI YEHORAM ULMAN
Rabbi Yehoram Ulman has served as a Rabbi and Spiritual Leader of a large community in Sydney Australia since 1986. He and his wife Shternie had been sent there as emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rabbi Ulman heads an organization called FREE (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe) which is responsible in connecting thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to their Jewish roots.
PROFESSOR ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.
Mendy Ganchrow, M.D. - Biography
Mendy Ganchrow, M.D. is a retired colo-rectal surgeon, served as president of the Orthodox Union from 1994 through 2000. He served as chairman of the board until 2002. The Orthodox Union is the world's largest Orthodox Synagogue group and consists of over 1000 synagogues.