Shlomo M. Brody

Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award - Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Mosaic Essay: Did My Book Share Too Many Secrets of Jewish Law? http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/04/have-i-shared-too-many-secrets-of-jewish-law/ Jerusalem Post Interview: http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Embracing-the-complex-385740 Jewish News Service interview: http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/11/9/from-abortion-to-conversion-new-book-tackles-hot-button-issues-in-jewish-law#.VLUUGCuUdqU Shlomo M. Brody is the founding director of the Tikvah Overseas Seminars for Yeshiva and Midrasha Students and teaches at Yeshivat Hakotel. He is also a presidential doctoral fellow at Bar Ilan University Law School and a junior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. A columnist for the Jerusalem Post, his essays have also appeared in Mosaic, First Things, Tablet, Jewish Action, The Forward, The Jewish Press, Meorot, Hakirah, Jewish Ideas Daily, Tradition Online, and other publications. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University, he received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and an MA in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University. Originally from Houston, Texas, Rabbi Brody now lives in Modi'in with his wife Rocky and four children.