Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY, Director of the Institute for Judaic Knowledge, based in Newton, MA, and a member of the editorial staff at Chabad.org. Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars and continuing legal education programs throughout North America, as well as in Mexico, Europe, and Africa as well as having authored numerous articles for various forums and the Jewish Learning Institute's "Living with Integrity" course. He recently completed a stint as scholar-in-residence to Chabad at Harvard, serving the greater Harvard and MIT communities, and has been visiting scholar in several communities. Rabbi Yaffe was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Portland, ME, and Los Angeles, CA. He studied at Yeshivot (Rabbinic Colleges) in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Brooklyn, NY in 1989. He was a fellow of the post-ordination program at the Leeds Kollel in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England from 1990- 1992.