Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik

Courses: Jewish Theology: A Reading of Leviticus.

Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and Associate Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan.  He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College, received his semikha from RIETS, and was a member of the Beren Kollel Elyon.   In 2010, he received his doctorate in Religion from Princeton University.  Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured throughout the United States, in Europe and in Israel to both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations.  His essays on these subjects have appeared in Commentary, First Things, Azure, Tradition, and the Torah U-Madda Journal.  Rabbi Soloveichik teaches Jewish theology at Yeshiva University and Senior Honors Talmud and Jewish Philosophy at Ramaz.