Meir Soloveichik

Meir Y. Soloveichik is Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel- the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States,  the Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and a Senior Scholar at the Tikvah Fund.  He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, and received his Phd in religion from Princeton University.  Rabbi Soloveichik's recent book is Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship.  Much of his writing and academic work focuses on the American Founding, and the unique story and role of religion in the United States.  His podcasts include Bible365, a daily study of the Hebrew Bible that completes all of Jewish scripture in a year, and Jerusalem365, which tells the 4,000 year history of Jerusalem. In 2018 Rabbi Soloveichik was awarded the Canterbury Medal for his work on behalf of religious liberty by the Becket Fund.