Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin
Position	Founding rabbi
Synagogue	Lincoln Square Synagogue
Position	founder and Chancellor
Organisation	Ohr Torah Stone
Created Rabbi	Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Personal details
Birth name	Steven Riskin
Born	May 28, 1940 Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	Israel, USA
Denomination	Orthodox
Residence	Efrat, Israel
Spouse	Victoria Pollins Riskin
Children	4
Occupation	Founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Author, Chancellor
Semicha	Yeshiva University

Shlomo Riskin (born May 28, 1940) is the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank; dean of Manhattan Day School in New York City; and founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, a network of high schools, colleges, and graduate Programs in the United States and Israel. He belongs to the Modern Orthodox stream of Judaism.

Shlomo Riskin was born on May 28, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Yeshiva of Brooklyn, and graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 1960, where he received rabbinic ordination under the guidance of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. In 1963, Riskin received his Masters Degree in Jewish history, and he completed a Ph.D from New York University in 1982. From 1963 until 1977, he lectured and served as an Associate Professor of Tanakh and Talmud at Yeshiva University in New York City.

At the age of 23, Riskin became the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City and served in that position until 1983. With the full backing of his mentor, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Rabbi Riskin transformed a fledgling Conservative minyan into one of New York's most innovative and dynamic Orthodox communities. The synagogue became particularly well known for its pioneering outreach programs which inspired many secular people to become religiously observant Orthodox Jews.

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