List of rabbis

Rabbis: Pre-Mishnaic (Tannaim) (Zugot) (ca. 515 BCE – 70 CE)

See: Mishnah, Tannaim, Zugot.

Zugot

Avtalyon, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Hyrcanus II and convert to Judaism

Hillel the Elder, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of King Herod the Great

Jose ben Joezer, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the Maccabean wars of independence

Jose ben Johanan, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the Maccabean wars of independence

Joshua ben Perachyah, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of John Hyrcanus

Judah ben Tabbai, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome

Nittai of Arbela, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of John Hyrcanus

Shammai, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of King Herod the Great

Shemaya, Nasi of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Hyrcanus II

Simeon ben Shetach, Av Beit Din of the Sanhedrin during the reign of Alexander Jannæus and Queen Salome

Other

Antigonus of Sokho

Gamaliel

Nicodemus

Shimon Hatzadik

Rabbis: Mishnaic (Tannaim) (ca. 70–200 CE)

See Mishnah, Tannaim.

Akiva, (c.40–c.137) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah

Eliezer ben Jose, the son of Jose the Galilean (?-c.160), famous for Baraita of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi Hananiah

Judah haNasi, (?–c.217) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah

Rabbi Meir, considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139-163)

Shimon bar Yochai, 1st-century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar

Rabbi Tarfon, member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE)

Yohanan ben Zakkai, (c.30 BCE–90 CE) 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah

Rabbis: Talmudic (Amoraim) (ca. 200–500 CE)

See Talmud and Amora.

Abaye, (?–339) 3rd-century Talmudist

Abba Arika, (175–247) known as Rav, last Tanna, first Amora, and moved from Israel to Babylon, 3rd century

Abbahu, (c.279–320) 4th-century Talmudist

Hamnuna – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name

Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, 3rd century, in Judea, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah

Hillel II, 4th-century creator of the Hebrew calendar, in Judea, son of Judah Nesiah, grandson of Gamaliel IV

Judah II, 3rd-century sage, sometimes called Judah Nesi'ah and Rebbi like his grandfather

Judah III, (?–c.320) 4th-century scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, and grandson of Judah II

Rabbah bar Nahmani (c.270–c.330)

Rav Ashi, (352–427) 5th-century Babylonian Talmudic sage – primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud

Rav Jonah

Rav Nachman (?–320)

Rav Papa (c.300–375)

Rava, important Amora (c.280–352)

Ravina, (?–421) primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud

Ravina II (?–499)

Resh Lakish

Shmuel (Talmud), (c. 165–c.257) rabbi of Nehardea, physician

Yochanan, (180–279) primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud

Rabbis: Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

See: Geonim and Rishonim.

Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th-century French Talmudist

Abraham ibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), (c. 1110–c.1180) 12th-century Spanish philosopher

Abraham ben David of Posquières, (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France

Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator

Abdullah ibn Saba', Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of Shia Islam.

Abdullah ibn Salam, (550 - 630) rabbi, converted to Islam and was a companion of Islam's founder, Muhammad

Amram Gaon, (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the siddur (prayer book)

Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist

Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist

Chananel Ben Chushiel (Rabbeinu Chananel), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist

David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi

Dunash ben Labrat, (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet

Eleazar Kalir, (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet

Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar

Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist

Rabbenu Gershom, (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist

Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), (1288–1344) 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher

Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher

Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi

Ibn Tibbon, a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders

Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher and Torah commentator

Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"

Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim ; Arbaah Turim), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist

Jacob Berab, (1474–1546) 15th–16th-century proponent of Semichah (Ordination)

Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain

Joseph ibn Migash (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides

Ka'ab al-Ahbar, Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?– 652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam.

Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier

Meir ben Samuel (c. 1060–1135) known by the Hebrew acronym (RaM) was a French rabbi and tosafist,

Mordecai ben Hillel, (The Mordechai), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist

Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist

Nissim Ben Jacob (Rav Nissim Gaon), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist

Nissim of Gerona, (RaN), (1320–1376) 14th-century Halakhist and Talmudist

Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the Mishnah

Rashbam, (Samuel ben Meir), (1085–1158) French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi"

Rashi, (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the Talmud

Saadia Gaon, (Emunoth ve-Deoth ; Siddur), (c.882–942) 10th-century exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry

Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator

Tosafists, (Tosfot) 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany

Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion

Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries

See: Acharonim.

Rabbis: 16th – 17th centuries

Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England

Jacob Abendana (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas

Abraham Amigo (c. 1610–c. 1683), Palestinian rabbi

Bezalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520–c.1592), (Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th-century Talmudist

Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), author of Chacham Tzvi

Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist

Abraham ben Saul Broda (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist

Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar

Samuel Edels (Mahrsha, 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist

Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi

David HaLevi Segal, (Taz, 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the Shulchan Aruch

Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel, (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar

Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah, c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel

Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch)

Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch

Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565) and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen (1521–1597) of Padua

Elijah Loans (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist

Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal, 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist

Meir of Lublin (Maharam, 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist

Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator

Isaac Luria (1534–1572) (Ari, 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah

Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist

Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England

David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica) (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica

David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) Shulchan Tahor into Spanish

Joseph Pardo (rabbi) (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant

Samuel Schotten (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt

Shalom Shachna (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great Rishonim

Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers

Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist

Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist

Mordecai Yoffe ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha

Rabbis: 18th century

Aharon of Karlin (I) (1736–1772), Hassidic leader

Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida, 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer

Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821), rabbi in Meknes

Haim Isaac Carigal (1733–1777), rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University

Dovber of Mezritch (c. 1710–1772), (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov

Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Talmudist, and communal leader

Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon or Gra, 1720–1797), Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidism

Elimelech of Lizhensk, (Noam Elimelech, 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid

Jacob Emden (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic

Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk (1708 – 1782) rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and alchemist

Aaron Hart (1670–1756), Chief rabbi of Great Britain

David Hassine (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet

Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, c.1700–1760), mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism

Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist

Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi, 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal, 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic

Hart Lyon (1721–1800), Chief rabbi of Great Britain

Nachman of Horodenka (?–1765), Hasidic leader

David Nieto (1654–1728), English rabbi

Isaac Nieto (1702–1774), English rabbi

Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato

Shalom Sharabi (1720–1777), Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist

Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe

Orthodox rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See Orthodox Judaism.

Orthodox rabbis: 19th century

Aaron of Pinsk (?–1841), rabbi and author of Tosafot Aharon

Barnett Abrahams (1831–1863), dayan, Principal of Jews' College, London

Shimon Agassi (1852–1914), Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist

Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire

Aharon of Karlin (II) (1802–1872), Hassidic leader

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), (Sfas Emes) Gerrer Rebbe

Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906), Rabbi in Meknes

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893), (Netziv ; Ha'emek Davar) head of Volozhin yeshiva in Lithuania

Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910), (Avnei Nezer), first Sochatchover Rebbe

Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), (Maharatz Chayes), Galician Talmudic scholar

Yosef Chayim, the Ben Ish Hai (1835–1909), Iraqi halakhist and preacher

Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), Rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem

Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), (Aruch ha-Shulchan) 19th–20th-century halakhist and posek (decisor)

Jacob Ettlinger (1798–1871), German scholar and opponent of Reform

Yitzchok Friedman (1850–1917), first Rebbe of Boyan

Moshe Shmuel Glasner (1856–1924), (Dor Revi'i) 19th–20th-century talmudist, chief rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrahi

Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia

Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), Rav of Chust, Hungary and founder of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty

Solomon Herschell (1762–1842), British Chief Rabbi

Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), German rabbi and philosopher

Abraham Hillel (1820-1920), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), German rabbi, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement

Abraham Lichtstein, Av Beit Din of Przasnysz, Poland

Jacob of Lissa (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist

Malbim (1809–1879), Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michael, (The Malbim), Russian preacher and scholar

Raphael Meldola (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London

Frederick de Sola Mendes (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America

Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), (Rebbe Nachman), Ukrainian Hasidic Rebbe and mystic

Nathan of Breslov (1780–1844), Known as Reb Noson was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Pele Yoetz (1785–1828), Rabbi Eliezer Papo, Rabbi of the community of Selestria, Bulgaria

Moses Pardo (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of Alexandria

Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick, (1841–1912) rosh yeshiva and educator

Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff (1866–1910), 19th–20th-century scholar and author

Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810–1883), Lithuanian ethicist and moralist

Dovber Schneuri (1773–1827), second Rebbe of Lubavitch

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), (Tzemach Tzedek), third Rebbe of Lubavitch

Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), fourth Rebbe of Lubavitch

Moses Sofer (1762–1839), (Chatam Sofer), Hungarian rabbi

Yaakov Chaim Sofer(1870–1939), Baghdadi rabbi, author of Kaf ha-Chaim

Chaim Soloveitchik (1853–1918), (father of the "Brisker Rov"), Eastern European rabbi

Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, (1820–1892) author of Beis Halevi (the title by which he is recognized among Talmudic scholars)

Hayyim Tyrer (1740–1817), Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist

Hardal

Yisrael Ariel (1939–), founder of the Temple Institute and one the liberators of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War

Shlomo Goren (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces

Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (1966–2000), Israeli leader of the Kahane Chai party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane

Meir Kahane (1932–1990), founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party, rosh yeshiva of Haraayon Hayehudi yeshiva, Jerusalem

Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), first Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and mystic

Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav and son of Abraham Isaac Kook

Aryeh Levin (1885–1969), known as Reb Aryeh, Orthodox rabbi and activist.

Haredi

Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), author of Chazon Yehezkel

Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1889–1984), Kabbalist

Amram Blau (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist Neturei Karta

Shmuel Bornsztain (1855–1926), Shem Mishmuel, Second Sochatchover Rebbe

David Cohen (1887–1972), Rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist, noted Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow

Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) religious philosopher and ethicist

Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky

Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator

Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), ( Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva

Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist

Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), (Kerem HaTzvi), author, leader and renowned scholar

Nosson Tzvi Finkel (1849–1927), (Alter / Sabba), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania

Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York

Rogatchover Gaon (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader

Boruch Greenfeld (1872–1956), (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch

Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941

Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980), (Pachad Yitzchok), European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva

Yisrael Meir Kagan (1839–1933), (Chofetz Chaim), Polish legalist and moralist, compiler of classic works

Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist

Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar

Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), (Living Torah) writer and mystic

Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878–1953), (Chazon Ish) Haredi leader in Israel

Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach and a founder and an executive director of World Agudath Israel

Aharon Kotler (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States

Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)

Gershon Liebman (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France

Elyah Lopian(1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, among the most prominent rabbis of the Mussar Movement

Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva

Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), (Mr. Mendlowitz) European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the United States

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), (Ohr Somayach ; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader

Shulem Moshkovitz (?–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London

Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and Rabbi

Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), (Cheishev Ho'ephod), rabbinical head of UOHC, London

Eliyahu Chaim Rosen (1899–1984), respected rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch

Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch

Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick (1882–1937), British rabbi

Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), famed Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno

Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848–1932), rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the years of the British Mandate of Palestine

Abraham Sternhartz (1862–1955), rabbi in Ukraine and unsurpassed figure in the chain of transmission of Breslover teachings

Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), (Satmar Rebbe), Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for strong anti-Zionist positions

Elchonon Wasserman (1874 - 1941) Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. He was one of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a noted Torah scholar.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), (Lubavitcher Rebbe), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Chabad Rebbe

Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), (Min HaMeitzar) European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust

Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York

Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry

Modern Orthodox

Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire

Meir Berlin (1880–1949), (Bar Ilan) religious Zionist leader

Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher

Israel Brodie (1895–1979), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

Eli Cashdan (1905-1998), British rabbi

Isidore Epstein (1894–1962), Principal of Jews' College, London

Harry Freedman (19081-1982), rabbi

Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain

Sir Hermann Gollancz (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor

Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire

Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan

Moses Hyamson (1862–1949), British rabbi

Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist

Moses Mescheloff (1909–2008), Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago

Chalom Messas (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem

David Messas (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of Paris

Solomon Mestel (1886–1966), British rabbi

Jonathan Sacks (1948–), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

Simeon Singer (1846–1906), editor of the United Synagogue prayer book

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903–1993), Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University

Selig Starr (1893–1989), Chicago rabbi

Hardal

Shlomo Amar (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel

Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010), former Sephardic Chief Rabbi

Yitzchak Ginsburgh (1944), American-born Israeli rabbi, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank

David Bar Hayim (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael

Israel Meir Lau (1937–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv

Dov Lior (1933–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron

Zalman Melamed (1937–), rabbi of Beit El

Avigdor Nebenzahl (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem

Meir Porush (1955-), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush

Menachem Porush (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael

Avraham Shapira (1914–2007), former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, the head of Mercaz haRav yeshiva

Ahron Soloveichik (1917–2001), Renowned scholar of Talmud, Halakha and a Rosh Yeshiva

Adin Steinsaltz (1937–), 21st-century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher

Moshe David Tendler, son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein, and noted bioethist

Haredi

Elazar Abuhatzeira (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar

Yaakov Aryeh Alter (1939), eighth and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger

Shalom Arush (1952), Israeli Breslov rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions

Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement

Yisroel Belsky (1938–2016), Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union, and recognized world authority of Jewish law

Moshe Ber Beck (1934–), Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the Neturei Karta movement in United States.

Eliezer Berland (1937), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement.

Yaakov Blau (1929–2013), rabbi and dayan on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis

Avrohom Blumenkrantz (1944–2007), posek and kashrut authority

Meir Brandsdorfer (1934–2009), member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the Edah HaChareidis

Nachum Dov Brayer (1959–), present Rebbe of the Boyan

Uriel Davidi (1922–2006), Hacham Uriel Davidi served as the chief rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994

Michel Dorfman (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia

Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky Rebbe of the Dushinsky of Jerusalem

Yosef Sholom Eliashiv (1910–2012), Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the haredi world

Gerrer Rebbes, Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK

Shlomo Goldman, Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi

Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park

Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (1952–), Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel

Yosef Hamadani Cohen (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran

Shlomo Helbrans (1962–), Rebbe of the Lev Tahor community

Moshe Hirsch (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem

Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic dynasty

Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem

Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe

Yitzchak Kadouri (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal)

Chaim Kanievsky (1928–), Israeli rabbi and posek, living in Bnei Brak, Israel

Nissim Karelitz (1926–), Israeli haredi leader

Meir Kessler, rabbi of Modi'in Illit

Yitzhak Aharon Korff, Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh.

Zundel Kroizer (1924–2014), author of Ohr Hachamah

Dov Landau, Israeli rosh yeshiva

Berel Lazar (1964–), Chief Rabbi of Russia

Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of Nikolsburg

Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1955–), current leader of the Bobov

Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty

Yona Metzger (1953–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel

Avigdor Miller (1908–2001), author and renowned lecturer

Shlomo Miller, head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law

Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Rebbe of Ropshitz

Yaakov Perlow, Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn

Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Rebbe of Skulen

Moshe Leib Rabinovich (1940–), current rebbe of Munkacs

Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (1909-2001), author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries

Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka (1949–), Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak

Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1948–), Belzer Rebbe

Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburger Rav

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem

Yitzchok Scheiner, Israeli rosh yeshiva

Eliezer Shlomo Schick (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings

Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi

Dovid Shmidel, Chairman of Asra Kadisha

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (1912), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek (halakhic authority)

Aaron Teitelbaum (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York

Moshe Teitelbaum (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe

Zalman Teitelbaum (1951–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum

David Twersky (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York

Mordechai Dovid Unger (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe

Vizhnitzer Rebbes, (Vizhnitzer), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the United States

Yisroel Dovid Weiss (1956–), United States Haredi rabbi, is an activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta

Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek

Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel

Amram Zaks (1926–2012), rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak

Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York

Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry

Bezalel Rudinsky Rabbi in Monsey, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Reuvein and Darchei Noam, author of Mishkan Bezalel and Hiluchai Hadaf

Modern Orthodox

Raymond Apple, Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues

Benjamin Blech, American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, noted author and speaker

Levi Brackman, British-born rabbi

Mordechai Breuer, Israeli rabbi, descendant of Samson Raphael Hirsch

Shlomo Carlebach (1925–1994), Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, singer and pioneer in Baal Teshuvah Movement

Mark Dratch, Instructor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University and founder of JSafe

Barry Freundel, former rabbi of Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., convicted of voyeurism

Manis Friedman, a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker

Menachem Froman (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders

Menachem Genack, OU

Moshe Gottesman, rabbi, educator and community leader.

Irving Greenberg, American rabbi and writer on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism

David Hartman, philosopher, author, and founder of Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem

David Bar Hayim, founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael [2]

Norman Lamm, American modern Orthodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University

Joel Landau, New York rabbi associated with Yad Ezra V’Shulamit

Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel

Abraham Nissan, Jewish spokesman, writer, lecturer and teacher of Jewish matters. University and College President of the Jewish community of Mexico.

Isaiah Rothstein, American Rabbi and civil rights activist

Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat

Hershel Schachter, leading posek for the Modern Orthodox Jewish community.

Arthur Schneier, prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at Park East Synagogue, which hosted Pope Benedict.

Zvi Sobolofsky, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and rabbi of Ohr Hatorah in Bergenfield, New Jersey

Steven Weil, Executive-Vice President of the Orthodox Union

Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community.

Benjamin Yudin, rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

See also article Modern Orthodox for a list of rabbis.

Conservative rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See: Conservative Judaism.

Conservative rabbis: 19th century

Zecharias Frankel, critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, progenitor of Conservative Judaism

Levi Herzfeld, German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform

Nachman Krochmal, Austrian philosopher and historian

Conservative rabbis: 20th century

Philip R. Alstat, rabbi

Louis Finkelstein, Conservative Talmud scholar

Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar

Robert Gordis, leader in Conservative Judaism

Jules Harlow, Conservative Judaism liturgist

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), Conservative Judaism philosopher and scholar of Hasidism

Isaac Klein, American Conservative rabbi and scholar

Albert L. Lewis, Conservative rabbi

Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar

Marshall Meyer, American Conservative rabbi and human rights activist, founded a Rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina

Samuel Schafler, American Conservative rabbi and historian

Solomon Schechter, scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism

Morris Silverman, American Conservative rabbi and liturgist

Conservative rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Ronald Androphy, Conservative rabbi of East Meadow Jewish Center, President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and the East Meadow Clergy Association, member of the Board of Governors of the New York Board of Rabbis, past Chairman of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the UJA Federation of Long Island, and past President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Nassau-Suffolk.

Bradley Shavit Artson, Conservative rabbi, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University,

Menachem Creditor, Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network

Elliot N. Dorff, Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University

Amy Eilberg, Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco

Neil Gillman, Conservative philosopher and theologian

David Golinkin, Masorti rabbi and halakhist

Reuven Hammer, Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator

Louis Jacobs, founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian

William E. Kaufman, advocate of process theology

Harold Kushner, American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer

William H. Lebeau, Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Aaron L. Mackler, Conservative rabbi and bioethicist

Jason Miller (rabbi), Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger

Jacob Neusner (1932–), Conservative trained scholar and writer

Daniel Nevins, Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism

Einat Ramon, first Israeli-born woman rabbi

Paula Reimers

Arnold Resnicoff, Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force

Joel Roth, Conservative scholar and rabbi

Ismar Schorsch, Conservative educator and leader

Harold M. Schulweis, Conservative rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California and founder of the Jewish World Watch

Alan Silverstein, Conservative rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly

Gordon Tucker, Conservative rabbi

Zvi Dershowitz (1928–), Conservative rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California

Stuart Weinblatt, Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America

David Wolpe (1958–), Conservative rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California

Neo-Conservative rabbas: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Yaffa Epstein, rabba, teaches Talmud at Yeshivat Maharat and serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Mimi Feigelsohn, rabba and lecturer in the rabbinic school at American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Sara Hurwitz, rabba and assistant rabbi of Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and dean of Yeshivat Maharat.

Conservative rabbinical organizations

Rabbinical Assembly

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

Union for Traditional Judaism

David Weiss Halivni, Hungarian-American Talmudist of Union for Traditional Judaism (UTJ)

Reform rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

See Reform Judaism.

Reform rabbis: 19th century

Samuel Adler, German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El

Moses Berlin, British Reform rabbi

Emil Hirsch, American Reform rabbi and scholar

David Einhorn, American Reform rabbi

Samuel Hirsch, German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement

Abraham Geiger, German Reform ideologist

Samuel Holdheim, German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism

Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge

Leopold Zunz, German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school

Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi

Reform rabbis: 20th century

Paula Ackerman, first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained

Leo Baeck (1873–1956), Reform rabbi

Pauline Bebe, first female rabbi in France

Laszlo Berkowitz, Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom

Lionel Blue, British rabbi, writer and broadcaster

Abraham Cronbach, Reform rabbi & educator

Maurice Davis, Reform rabbi, past Chairman, President's Commission on Equal Opportunity

David Max Eichhorn (Jan. 6, 1906–July 16, 1986), Reform Jewish rabbi, author, founder of Merritt Island's Temple Israel, and Army chaplain among the troops that liberated Dachau

Elyse Goldstein, first female Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer

Regina Jonas, first female rabbi in the world

Julia Neuberger, British Reform rabbi

Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple

Sally Priesand, Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States

Abba Hillel Silver, Reform rabbi and Zionist leader

Stephen S. Wise (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist

Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), Reform rabbi

Reform rabbis: contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and Palestinian human rights activist in Israel

Denise Eger, former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim (world's first LGBT Synagogue) and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and openl lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in California

Alysa Stanton, first ordained Black female rabbi (Reform) in America

Reconstructionist rabbis, 20th and 21st centuries

See: Reconstructionist Judaism.

Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th century

Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America

Ira Eisenstein (1906-2001), founding president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis

Reconstructionist rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, children's book author

Tina Grimberg, leader in the inter-religious dialog

Carol Harris-Shapiro, modern author

Karaite rabbis

See: Karaite Judaism. See: Karaite Hakhamim.

Other rabbis

See Jewish Renewal ; Humanistic Judaism

Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi

Capers C. Funnye Jr., first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis

Michael Lerner (1943–), founder/editor of Tikkun magazine

Jackie Mason (born 1931), comedian and actor, received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement

Arthur Waskow (1933–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement

Sherwin Wine, U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism

Tamara Kolton, first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism