Shlomo Yaffe

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is an American Orthodox rabbi, educator, lecturer, and author. He serves as dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York City and rabbi of Congregation B'nai Torah in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He is also Rabbinical Director of the Massachusetts Kashrut Commission and has previously served as scholar-in-residence to Chabad at Harvard University, serving the Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology communities.

Early life and education Yaffe was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Portland, Maine, and Los Angeles, California.

He studied at yeshivot in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination (semikhah) from Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Brooklyn in 1989.

Career Yaffe has held rabbinic positions in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He served as rabbi of Hull Hebrew Congregation in Hull, England, before returning to the United States.

Personal life Yaffe resides in Massachusetts with his wife, Chana, and their children.