Shalom Berger

Who is Shalom Berger?

Shalom Berger is a noted Orthodox Jewish scholar and educational activist.

Rabbi Berger was born and raised in the United States. He studied in Yeshivat 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 YeshivaUniversity. He earned Semicha, 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 in the Diaspora at Bar-Ilan University. In recent years he has begun writing for the Aleph Society/Steinsaltz Center, where he serves as the senior content editor of the Koren/Steinsaltz English Talmud.