List of rabbis

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

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, Av Beit Din 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)

• Akiva, 1st-century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
• Eliezer ben Jose, the son of Jose the Galilean, famous for Baraita of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi Hananiah
• Judah haNasi, 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor of the Mishnah
• Rabbi Meir, considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation
• Shimon bar Yochai, 1st-century mystic, reputed author of the Zohar
• Tarfon, member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the destruction of the Second Temple
• Yohanan ben Zakkai, 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah, first to actually be called “Rabbi”.

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

• Abaye, 3rd-century Talmudist
• Abba Arika, known as Rav, last Tanna, first Amora, and moved from Israel to Babylon, 3rd century
• Abbahu, 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, 4th-century scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, and grandson of Judah II
• Rabbah bar Nahmani
• Rav Ashi, 5th-century Babylonian Talmudic sage – primary redactor of the Babylonian Talmud
• Rav Jonah
• Rav Nachman
• Rav Papa
• Rava, important Amora
• Ravina, primary aide to Rav Ashi in the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
• Ravina II
• Resh Lakish
• Shmuel, rabbi of Nehardea, physician
• Yochanan, primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud
• Rav, (headed yeshiva in babylon0

  Rabbis: Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

• Abba Mari,, 13th-century French Talmudist
• Abraham ibn Daud,, 12th-century Spanish philosopher
• Abraham ben David of Posquières, 12th century, France
• Abraham ibn Ezra,, 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, rabbi, converted to Islam and was a companion of Islam's founder, Muhammad
• Amram Gaon, 9th-century organizer of the siddur
• Asher ben Jehiel,, 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist
• Bahya ibn Paquda,, 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist
• Chananel Ben Chushiel, 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi
• Dunash ben Labrat, 10th-century grammarian and poet
• Eleazar Kalir, early Talmudic liturgist and poet
• Eleazar of Worms,, 12th-century German rabbinic scholar
• Eliezer ben Nathan, 12th-century poet and pietist
• Rabbenu Gershom, 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist
• Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom,, 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher
• Hasdai Crescas,, 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher
• Hillel ben Eliakim,, 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,, 15th-century philosopher, Talmudist and Torah commentator. Also a court advisor and in charge of Finance to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain.
• Isaac Alfasi,, 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"
• Jacob ben Asher,, 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist
• Jacob Berab, 15th–16th-century proponent of Semichah
• Joseph Albo,, 15th-century Spain
• Joseph ibn Migash 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
• Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat, Spanish Talmudist and rabbi
• Ka'ab al-Ahbar, Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam.
• Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon,, 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
• Meir ben Samuel known by the Hebrew acronym was a French rabbi and tosafist,
• Mordecai ben Hillel,, 13th-century German Halakhist
• Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman,, 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
• Nissim Ben Jacob, 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• Nissim of Gerona,, 14th-century Halakhist and Talmudist
• Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro,, 15th-century commentator on the Mishnah
• Rashbam,, French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi"
• Rashi,, 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the Talmud
• Saadia Gaon,, 10th-century exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry
• Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
• Tosafists, 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
• Yehuda Halevi,, 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion

  Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries

Rabbis: 16th – 17th centuries

• Rabbi Isaac Abendana, 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England
• Rabbi Jacob Abendana, 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England
• Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas
• Rabbi Abraham Amigo, Judean rabbi
• Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi,, 16th-century Talmudist
• Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi, author of Chacham Tzvi
• Rabbi Yair Bacharach, 17th-century German Talmudist
• Rabbi Menahem ben Moshe Bavli, 16th-century rabbi
• Rabbi Abraham ben Saul Broda, Bohemian Talmudist
• Rabbi Naphtali Cohen, Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist
• Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
• Rabbi Samuel Edels, 16th-century Talmudist
• Rabbi Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi
• Rabbi David HaLevi Segal,, 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Rabbi Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, 17th-century Lithuanian scholar
• Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel
• Rabbi Moshe Isserles, 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah
• Rabbi Yosef Karo, 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch
• Rabbi Meir ben Isaac and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen of Padua
• Rabbi Elijah Loans, 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist
• Rabbi Judah Low ben Bezalel, 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist
• Rabbi Meir of Lublin, 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, 16th–17th-century Torah commentator
• Rabbi Isaac Luria , 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Rabbi Solomon Luria, 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel, 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
• Rabbi David Pardo , Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica
• Rabbi David Pardo, translator of Joseph Pardo's Shulchan Tahor into Spanish
• Rabbi Joseph Pardo , Italian rabbi and merchant
• Rabbi Samuel Schotten, 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Rabbi Shalom Shachna, 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great Acharonim
• Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
• *Rabbi Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist
• Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, 16th-century Kabbalist
• Rabbi Mordecai Yoffe, 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha
• Rabbi Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi Palestinian rabbi
• Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Shor, Czech rabbi
• Rabbi Simcha Rappaport, Ukrainian rabbi

  Rabbis: 18th century

• Rabbi Aharon of Karlin , Hassidic leader
• Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai, Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
• Rabbi Raphael Berdugo, rabbi in Meknes
• Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal, rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
• Rabbi Dovber of Mezritch,, Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
• Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Talmudist, and communal leader
• Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, Talmudist and mystic, Lithuanian leader of the Mitnagdim, opponent of Hasidism
• Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk,, Polish mystic and Hasid
• Rabbi Jacob Emden, German Talmudist and mystic
• Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk rabbi, Practical Kabbalist and alchemist
• Rabbi Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
• Rabbi David Hassine, Moroccan Jewish poet
• Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
• Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, Posek and Talmudist
• Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev Polish Hassidic Leader
• Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic
• Rabbi Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
• Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka, Hasidic leader
• Rabbi David Nieto, English rabbi
• Rabbi Isaac Nieto, English rabbi
• Rabbi Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
• Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist
• Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi,, mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe

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

Orthodox rabbis: 19th century

• Rabbi Aaron of Pinsk, rabbi and author of Tosafot Aharon
• Rabbi Yaakov Koppel Altenkunshtadt, German and Hungarian Rabbi
• Rabbi Barnett Abrahams, dayan, Principal of Jews' College, London
• Rabbi Shimon Agassi, Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist
• Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Rabbi Aharon of Karlin , Hassidic leader
• Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Gerrer Rebbe
• Rabbi Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Rabbi Salomon Berdugo, Rabbi in Meknes
• Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, head of Volozhin yeshiva in Lithuania
• Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain,, first Sochatchover Rebbe
• Rabbi Lelio Cantoni, Italian rabbi and writer
• Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes,, Galician Talmudic scholar
• Rabbi Yosef Chayim, the Ben Ish Hai, Iraqi halakhist and preacher
• Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem
• Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, 19th–20th-century halakhist and posek
• Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger, German scholar and opponent of Reform
• Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, first Rebbe of Boyan
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner, 19th–20th-century talmudist, chief rabbi of Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrahi
• Rabbi Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia
• Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Rav of Chust, Hungary and founder of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty
• Rabbi Solomon Herschell, British Chief Rabbi
• Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, German rabbi and philosopher
• Rabbi Abraham Hillel, Chief Rabbi of Baghdad
• Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi, founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement
• Rabbi Abraham Lichtstein, Av Beit Din of Przasnysz, Poland
• Rabbi Jacob of Lissa, Galician Halakhist
• Rabbi Meir Lob ben Yechiel Michael,, Russian preacher and scholar
• Rabbi Raphael Meldola, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London
• Rabbi Frederick de Sola Mendes, Sephardic rabbi in London and America
• Rabbi Nachman of Breslov,, Ukrainian Hasidic Rebbe and mystic
• Rabbi Nathan of Breslov, Known as Reb Noson was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
• Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim, rabbi at Pécs, Hungary.
• Rabbi Eliezer Papo, Pele Yoetz, Rabbi of the community of Selestria, Bulgaria
• Rabbi Moses Pardo, Jerusalem-born rabbi of Alexandria
• Rabbi Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick, rosh yeshiva and educator
• Rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff, 19th–20th-century scholar and author
• Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter, Lithuanian ethicist and moralist
• Rabbi Dovber Schneuri, second Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn,, third Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn, fourth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Moses Sofer,, Hungarian rabbi
• Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer, Baghdadi rabbi, author of Kaf ha-Chaim
• Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik,, Eastern European rabbi
• Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, author of Beis Halevi
• Rabbi Hayyim Tyrer, Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist

  Orthodox rabbis: 20th century

Religious-Zionist

• Rabbi Haim Amsalem, former member of Knesset and focused on creating an easy path to conversion to Judaism
• Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder of the Temple Institute and one the liberators of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War
• Rabbi David Cohen, Rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist, noted Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow.
• Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces
• Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli leader of the Kahane Chai party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane
• Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party, rosh yeshiva of Haraayon Hayehudi yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and mystic
• Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav and son of Abraham Isaac Kook
• Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neria, head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivot
• Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, first Sefardi Chief Rabbi of Palestine

  Haredi

• Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, author of Chazon Yehezkel
• Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, Kabbalist
• Rabbi Amram Blau, Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
• Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, Shem Mishmuel, Second Sochatchover Rebbe
• Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, religious philosopher and ethicist
• Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky
• Rabbi Baruch Epstein,, Lithuanian Torah commentator
• Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein,, Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva
• Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,, Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
• Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber,, author, leader and renowned scholar
• Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel,, early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania
• Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman, Boyaner Rebbe of New York
• Rabbi Rogatchover Gaon,, Talmudist and Hasidic leader
• Rabbi Boruch Greenfeld,, Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
• Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald, Rabbi in Pápa, Hungary, author of Vayageid Yaakov
• Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, author of Vaychi Yosef
• Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, , Posek, and ethicist, compiler of classic works. Born and lived in Poland. Famous for writing the Mishnah Berurah, a work on Jewish Law.
• Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941
• Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner,, European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, rabbinical leader and educationalist
• Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky,, Ukrainian-born scholar
• Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writer and mystic
• Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, Haredi leader in Israel
• Rabbi Pinchas Kohn, last rabbi of Ansbach, a founder and executive director of World Agudath Israel
• Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States
• Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth, long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp
• Rabbi Gershon Liebman, leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France
• Rabbi Elyah Lopian, known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement
• Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the United States
• Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
• Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, Hasidic rebbe in London
• Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser, Breslover Hasid and Rabbi
• Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa,, rabbinical head of UOHC, London
• Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, leader of Mosdot Shuva Israel, a global organization, based in Ashdod and New York
• Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen, rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Rabbi Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, British rabbi
• Rabbi Simcha Sheps, rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath
• Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno
• Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine
• Rabbi Abraham Sternhartz, rabbi in Ukraine and key figure in the chain of transmission of Breslover teachings
• Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum,, Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for strong anti-Zionist positions
• Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. One of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a noted Torah scholar.
• Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, European scholar involved in rescue efforts during the Holocaust

  Modern Orthodox

• Rabbi Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Rabbi Meir Berlin, religious Zionist leader
• Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits Talmudic scholar and philosopher
• Rabbi Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Rabbi Eli Cashdan, British rabbi
• Rabbi Isidore Epstein, Principal of Jews' College, London
• Rabbi Harry Freedman, rabbi
• Rabbi Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain
• Rabbi Sir Hermann Gollancz, British rabbi and professor
• Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, British rabbi and dayan
• Rabbi Moses Hyamson, British rabbi
• Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist
• Rabbi Moses Mescheloff, Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago
• Rabbi Chalom Messas, Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem
• Rabbi David Messas, Chief Rabbi of Paris
• Rabbi Solomon Mestel, British rabbi
• Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Rabbi Simeon Singer, editor of the United Synagogue prayer book
• Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University
• Rabbi Selig Starr, Chicago rabbi

  Orthodox rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Religious-Zionist

• Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi
• Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, American-born Israeli rabbi, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank
• Rabbi David Bar Hayim, founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
• Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
• Rabbi Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron
• Rabbi Zalman Melamed, rabbi of Beit El
• Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem
• Rabbi Meir Porush, Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush
• Rabbi Menachem Porush, Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael
• Rabbi Avraham Shapira, former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, the head of Mercaz haRav yeshiva
• Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, Renowned scholar of Talmud, Halakha and a Rosh Yeshiva
• Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, 21st-century Israeli Talmud scholar and philosopher
• Rabbi Aryeh Stern, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and student of Zvi Yehuda Kook
• Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein, and noted bioethist

  Haredi

• Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar
• Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, eighth and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger
• Rabbi Shalom Arush, Israeli Breslov rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions
• Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement
• Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union, and recognized world authority of Jewish law
• Moshe Ber Beck, Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the Neturei Karta movement in United States.
• Rabbi Eliezer Berland, Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement.
• Rabbi Yaakov Blau, rabbi and dayan on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis
• Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz, posek and kashrut authority
• Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis
• Rabbi Nachum Dov Brayer, present Rebbe of the Boyan
• Rabbi Uriel Davidi, chief rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994
• Rabbi Michel Dorfman, de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia
• Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky Rebbe of the Dushinsky of Jerusalem
• Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, Israeli rabbi and a rabbinical leader of the haredi world
• Rabbi Aharon Feldman, American Rosh Yeshiva
• Rabbi Avraham Bromberg, American Rosh Yeshiva and Posek
• Rabbi Gerrer Rebbes, Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK
• Rabbi Shlomo Goldman, Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi
• Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park
• Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel
• Rabbi Yosef Hamadani Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran
• Moshe Hirsch, Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem
• Rabbi Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic dynasty
• Rabbi Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem
• Rabbi Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe
• Rabbi Yitzchak Kadouri, leading 20th-century Kabbalist
• Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Israeli rabbi and posek, living in Bnei Brak, Israel
• Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, Israeli haredi leader
• Rabbi Meir Kessler, rabbi of Modi'in Illit
• Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff, Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh.
• Rabbi Zundel Kroizer, author of Ohr Hachamah
• Rabbi Dov Landau, Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia
• Rabbi Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of Nikolsburg
• Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, current leader of the Bobov
• Rabbi Meshulim Feish Lowy, Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
• Rabbi Uri Mayerfeld, rosh yeshiva in Canada
• Rabbi Yona Metzger, former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Rabbi Avigdor Miller, author and renowned lecturer
• Rabbi Shlomo Miller, head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law
• Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Rebbe of Ropshitz
• Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Hasidic rebbe of Novominsk and rosh yeshiva living in Borough Park, Brooklyn
• Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York
• Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Rebbe of Skulen
• Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich, current rebbe of Munkacs
• Rabbi Chaim Dov Rabinowitz, author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries
• Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka, Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak
• Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, Belzer Rebbe
• Rabbi Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburger Rav
• Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings
• Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi
• Rabbi Dovid Shmidel, Chairman of Asra Kadisha
• Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
• Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York
• Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe
• Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, Grand Rebbe of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
• Rabbi David Twersky, Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York
• Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger, currently Bobover Rebbe
• Vizhnitzer Rebbes,, Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the United States
• Rabbi Osher Weiss Possek and An Av Beis Din
• Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
• Rabbi Dov Yaffe, Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi
• Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel
• Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 21st-century Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry
• Rabbi Amram Zaks, rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak
• Rabbi Elyakim Rosenblatt, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Kesser Torah in Queens, NY

  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, Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, singer and pioneer in Baal Teshuvah Movement
• Chuck Davidson, founder of organizations Giyur Kehalacha and Ahavat Hager which aims to undermine the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and their monopoly with conversions and marriages
• 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, Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders
• Rabbi 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
• Norman Lamm, American modern Orthodox thinker, head of Yeshiva University
• Joel Landau, New York rabbi associated with Yad Ezra V’Shulamit
• Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel
• Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat
• Rabbi 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
• Stanley M. Wagner, American rabbi and academic
• Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community.
• Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Open Orthodox rabbis, 20th and 21st centuries

• Sara Hurwitz, rabba and assistant rabbi of Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and dean of Yeshivat Maharat
• Avi Weiss, Founder, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale

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

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

• Jacob B. Agus, rabbi and theologian
• Philip R. Alstat, Conservative rabbi
• Ben-Zion Bokser, Conservative rabbi
• Boaz Cohen, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Gerson D. Cohen, historian and Jewish Theological Seminary of America chancellor
• Moshe Davis, historian at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Hebrew University
• Louis Finkelstein, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Louis Ginzberg, American Conservative Talmud scholar
• Robert Gordis, leader in Conservative Judaism
• Sidney Greenberg, rabbi and author
• Simon Greenberg, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Morris Gutstein, congregational rabbi and historian
• Jules Harlow, liturgist
• Arthur Hertzberg, rabbi, scholar, and activist
• Abraham Joshua Heschel, philosopher, scholar of Hasidism, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Max Kadushin, philosopher and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Wolfe Kelman, Rabbinical Assembly leader
• Isaac Klein, American rabbi and scholar of halakhah
• Albert L. Lewis, Conservative rabbi
• Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar
• Marshall Meyer, rabbi and human rights activist, founded a Rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina
• Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author
• Samuel Schafler, American rabbi and historian
• Solomon Schechter, scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
• Morris Silverman, American rabbi and liturgist
• Chana Timoner, first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army

  Conservative rabbis: Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Ronald Androphy, rabbi of East Meadow Jewish Center
• Leslie Alexander, first female rabbi of a major Conservative Jewish synagogue in the United States
• Bradley Shavit Artson, Conservative rabbi, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University
• Lia Bass, second Latin American female rabbi in the world.
• Miriam Berkowitz, Conservative rabbi, chaplain, educator and writer
• Geoffrey Claussen, Conservative rabbi and Elon University professor
• Aryeh Cohen, Conservative rabbi and American Jewish University professor
• Martin Samuel Cohen, Conservative rabbi and author
• Shaye J. D. Cohen, Conservative rabbi and Harvard University professor
• Moshe Cotel, pianist, composer, and rabbi
• Menachem Creditor, Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network
• Cynthia Culpeper, first full-time female rabbi in Alabama
• Jerome Cutler, director of the Creative Arts Temple in West Los Angeles, California.
• David G. Dalin, rabbi and historian
• Zvi Dershowitz, rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California
• 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
• Edward Feld, Conservative rabbi and siddur editor
• Everett Gendler, rabbi and progressive activist
• Neil Gillman, philosopher, theologian, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• David Golinkin, Masorti rabbi and halakhist
• Daniel Gordis, Israeli author and speaker
• Michael Greenbaum, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Reuven Hammer, Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator
• Sherre Hirsch, rabbi and author
• Judith Hauptman, feminist Talmudic scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Rachel Isaacs, first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of
• Louis Jacobs, founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian
• William E. Kaufman, advocate of process theology
• Daniella Kolodny, first female rabbi enlisted in the United States Naval Academy
• Myer S. Kripke, rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist based in Omaha, Nebraska
• Harold Kushner, American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer
• Aaron Landes, rabbi of Beth Sholom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
• William H. Lebeau, Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Naomi Levy, American rabbi, author and speaker
• Alan Lew, teacher of Jewish meditation
• Aaron L. Mackler, Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
• Jason Miller, Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger
• Alan Mittleman, professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Jack Moline, Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance
• Jacob Neusner, 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, one of the first women to be ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Arnold Resnicoff, Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Joel Roth, Conservative scholar and rabbi
• Simchah Roth. Israeli rabbi and Siddur Va'ani Tefillati editor
• Julie Schonfeld, first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association
• Ismar Schorsch, Conservative educator and leader
• Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California and founder of the Jewish World Watch
• Rona Shapiro, first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in Cleveland
• Alan Silverstein, rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly
• Mychal Springer, rabbi and Jewish Theological Seminary of America leader
• Valerie Stessin, first woman to be ordained as a Conservative rabbi in Israel
• Ira F. Stone, a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement
• Susan Tendler, first female rabbi in Chattanooga
• Gordon Tucker, Conservative rabbi
• 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, rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, California
• Bea Wyler, first female rabbi in Germany to officiate at a congregation

  Union for Traditional Judaism

• David Weiss Halivni, Hungarian-American Talmudist of Union for Traditional Judaism

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

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, American Reform rabbi

  Reform rabbis: 20th century

• Paula Ackerman, first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained
• Leo Baeck, 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, 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, Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple
• Sally Priesand, Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States
• Murray Saltzman, Reform rabbi
• Abba Hillel Silver, Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
• Jackie Tabick, first female rabbi in Britain
• Stephen S. Wise, Reform rabbi and Zionist activist

  Reform rabbis: contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Rachel Adler, theologian and Hebrew Union College professor
• Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and human rights activist for both Jews and non-Jews in Israel-best known for advocating for Palestinian human rights.
• Rebecca Dubowe, first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States
• Denise Eger, former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and open lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in California
• Lisa Goldstein, Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality,
• Alysa Stanton, first ordained Black female rabbi in America
• Margaret Wenig, rabbi known for advocating for LGBT rights

  Reconstructionist rabbis, 20th and 21st centuries

Reconstructionist rabbis: 20th century

• Mordecai Kaplan, founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America
• Ira Eisenstein, founding president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis
• Susan Schnur, editor of Lilith Magazine

  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
• Sandra Lawson, first openly gay, female, black rabbi
• Joy Levitt, first female president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
• Toba Spitzer, first openly gay head of a rabbinical association

  Karaite rabbis

Other rabbis

• Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi
• Capers C. Funnye Jr., first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis
• Michael Lerner, founder/editor of Tikkun magazine
• Jackie Mason, comedian and actor, received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Arthur Waskow, leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Sherwin Wine, U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism
• Tamara Kolton, first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism
• Shlomo Helbrans, Rebbe of the Lev Tahor community

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