Mordechai Willig
1947 CE · Modern · Riverdale (Bronx, NYC)
R. Mordechai Willig (b. 1947), rosh yeshiva of RIETS and senior rosh kollel of the Wexner Kollel Elyon, is among the most influential American Modern Orthodox posekim of his generation. A close talmid of R. Soloveitchik, he has served as rabbi of the Young Israel of Riverdale for over four decades alongside his RIETS shiur. His responsa on contemporary issues — internet, women's roles, conversion, modern medicine — are widely consulted in American Modern Orthodoxy.
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Rabbi of Young Israel of Riverdale; rosh yeshiva of RIETS/Wexner Kollel Elyon.
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Jewish world
- R. Gershon Edelstein· 1923 CE–2023 CE
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub· 1923 CE–2019 CE
- Rabbi Nota Tzvi Greenblatt· 1925 CE–2022 CE
- R. Norman (Nachum) Lamm· 1927 CE–2020 CE
- Chaim Kanievsky (Bnei Brak)· 1928 CE–2022 CE
- David Hartman· 1931 CE–2013 CE
- Aharon Lichtenstein (Yeshivat Har Etzion)· 1933 CE–2015 CE
- Esther Jungreis· 1936 CE–2016 CE
- Adin Steinsaltz· 1937 CE–2020 CE
- Yisrael Meir Lau· 1937 CE–
- Yisroel Belsky· 1938 CE–2016 CE
- R. Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron· 1941 CE–2020 CE
- R. Hershel Schachter (YU/RIETS)· 1941 CE–
- R. Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir)· 1943 CE–2011 CE
- Chana Henkin· 1944 CE–
- Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus· 1944 CE–2001 CE
- R. Yaakov Moshe Hillel· 1945 CE–
- Moshe Idel· 1947 CE–
- R. Aaron Teitelbaum (Satmar — Aroni faction)· 1947 CE–
- R. Shlomo Moshe Amar· 1948 CE–
- Jonathan Henry Sacks (UK Chief Rabbi)· 1948 CE–2020 CE
- R. Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (Satmar — Zali faction)· 1951 CE–
- Yitzchak Yosef· 1952 CE–
- R. Asher Weiss (Minchas Asher)· 1953 CE–
Christian world
Buddhist world
Scientists
Hindu world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Bill Clinton· 1946 CE–
- George W. Bush· 1946 CE–
- Donald Trump· 1946 CE–
- Joe Biden· 1942 CE–
- Mikhail Gorbachev· 1931 CE–2022 CE
- Boris Yeltsin· 1931 CE–2007 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
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