Saul Berman

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Saul J. Berman is a prominent American scholar and rabbi and voice of the Modern Orthodox Jewish community.

As a rabbi, scholar, and educator he has made extensive contributions to the intensification of Jewish education for Jewish women on many levels, to the role of social ethics in synagogue life, and to the understanding of the applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society.

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. He spent two years studying mishpat ivri in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.

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, and they have four children.