Yitzchok Adlerstein

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Born	Jeffrey Adlerstein 1950 New York City
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Education	B.A Queens College, City University of New York
Occupation	Professor, teacher, and author
Employer	Loyola Law School, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Yeshiva of Los Angeles
Title	Rabbi

Yitzchok Adlerstein (born 1950 in New York) is an Orthodox rabbi. He is the co-founder and a featured writer on Cross-Currents, an online journal of Orthodox Jewish thought. He is on the editorial board of Klal Perspectives, and online journal of issues facing the Orthodox community.

Adlerstein served in an advisory and honorary position as one of the founding trustees of the Association for Jewish Outreach Programs (AJOP, known at the time as The Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals) delivering lectures and workshops to Orthodox Jewish outreach rabbis.

Adlerstein studied and received his advanced rabbinical ordination from the Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in New York. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Adlerstein is the director of Interfaith Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He holds the Sydney M. Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School and teaches senior high school girls at Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles.

He writes regularly for the Cross-Currents blog.

He has often been quoted or a participant in controversial debates that have relevance to Orthodox Jews and their world outlook.

During the Slifkin controversy over how Orthodoxy views Evolution, Adlerstein was quoted in the New York Times supporting Rabbi Slifkin who faced intense pressures from Haredi rabbis to withdraw his books.

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