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Feb 04, 1960 64 years old
Jewish scholar
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About Shalom Berger
- Shalom Berger (born February 4, 1960) is a noted Orthodox Jewish scholar and educational activist. Rabbi Berger was born and raised in the United States.
- He studied in Yeshiva Chaim Berlin high school in Brooklyn under Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, in Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel under Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Rabbi Yehuda Amital and in Yeshiva University.
- He earned Semicha (rabbinic ordination), a BA in Mathematics and an MS and EdD in Education at Yeshiva University, and an MPA in Public Administration from Baruch College. Prior to moving to Israel in 1991, Berger taught in the Frisch School and later in HAFTR High School, where he served as director of Israel Guidance.
- In Israel he taught in BMT and Midreshet Lindenbaum.
- In 1998 he began working at the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education, part of the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University.
- In recent years he has written for the Aleph Society/Steinsaltz Center, where he served as the senior content editor of the Koren/Steinsaltz English Talmud.
- He currently heads the English-language programming for Herzog College at its Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz campuses.
- He also serves on the Zomet Institute's Rabbinical Conversion Court in Alon Shvut.
