Principals

Rabbi Gedalia Schwartz, AV BETH DIN. Rabbi Schwartz has served the Beth Din of America for more than 20 years - as both dayan and Av Beth Din. He is also Av -Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council and chairs the RCA Halakhic Commission.

Rabbi Mordechai Willig, SEGAN AV BETH DIN. Rabbi Willig is a noted rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). He is also a community rabbi and posek with recognized expertise in beth din proceedings.

Rabbi Michael Broyde, CHAVER BETH DIN. Rabbi Broyde is a legal scholar, attorney, professor of law, author and seasoned dayan. He is a Yadin Yadin Musmakh of RIETS and a graduate of the New York University School of Law.

Rabbi Jonathan (Yona) Reiss, DIRECTOR, Rabbi Reiss is a Yadin Yadin Musmakh of RIETS and an attorney who was an associate for six years at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Eric Goldstein, PRESIDENT. Mr. Goldstein oversees the newly reconstituted Beth Din Board of Directors comprised of 12 rabbis and 18 laypersons.

Dayanim

The following is a partial list of the people who have served as Dayanim for the Beth Din of America: Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rabbi Michael Broyde, Esq., Rabbi Yona Reiss, Esq., Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman, Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Aaron Levine, Rabbi Yosef Blau, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Esq., Rabbi Ronald Warburg, Rabbi Dani Rapp, Rabbi Julius Berman, Esq., Rabbi Sheldon Rudoff, Esq., Rabbi Kenneth Auman, Rabbi Joseph Karasick, Rabbi Adam Berner, Esq., Rabbi Michael Hecht, Rabbi Samuel Gurwitz, and Dr. David Pelcovitz.

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