Jeremy Wieder

Rabbi
Jeremy Wieder
Personal life
BornKenneth Jeremy Wieder
February 1971 (age 55)
EducationYeshiva University
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationModern Orthodox
Jewish leader
PositionRosh Yeshiva
YeshivaYeshiva University
ResidenceTeaneck, New Jersey, U.S.

Kenneth Jeremy Wieder (born February 1971, also RKJW) is a Rosh Yeshiva (dean) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University.in Manhattan, New York. He holds the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Talmud.

Wieder was one of the first Americans to win the International Bible Contest,[1] and later graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College in 1991, and received an M.S. in American Jewish history from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and rabbinic ordination from RIETS in 1994. In 2005, he received a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Yair Rosenberg, ‘Jeopardy’ for Jews: Who Wants To Be the World’s Next Top Torah Scholar?, May 1, 2014, Tablet Magazine
  2. ↑ Leichman, Abigail Klein. "Gathering of the gabbais" Archived 2016-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Standard, February 9, 2006. Accessed August 25, 2007. "Teaneck resident Rabbi Jeremy Wieder led the latter session."