23 Facts About Aryeh Klapper

Aryeh Klapper is a leading American rabbi and Jewish thinker who serves as dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership.

Aryeh Klapper was listed as one of Tablet Magazine's "Rabbis You Should Know" in 2014.

Aryeh Klapper previously served as rabbi of Brandeis Hillel, talmud curriculum chair of Maimonides High School, Orthodox adviser and associate director for Education at Harvard Hillel, instructor of Rabbinics and Medical Ethics at Gann Academy, and interim rabbi of the Young Israel of Sharon.

Aryeh Klapper launched a podcast, Taking Responsibility for Torah, in 2021.

Aryeh Klapper published a book, Divine Will and Human Experience, in 2022.

Aryeh Klapper placed second in the 1980 National Spelling Bee after qualifying through the All-Yeshiva Spelldown.

Aryeh Klapper attended Manhattan Day School, graduated from Yeshiva University with a bachelor's degree in political science, and received rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and a master's degree in Bible from the Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies in 1994.

Aryeh Klapper is married to Deborah Klapper, and has four children and two grandchildren.

Aryeh Klapper taught at several east-coast universities before joining Harvard Hillel in 2002, where he taught a faculty Talmud class, built the Cambridge eruv, and met his future wife, a Harvard student who served as minyan gabbai.

Aryeh Klapper became known for his intellectual scholarship and his generosity in inviting guests for Shabbat meals.

Aryeh Klapper taught at Maimonides High School from 1994 to 2003, eventually serving as Talmud Curriculum Chair, and at Gann Academy from 2005 to 2014.

Aryeh Klapper first launched the Summer Beit Midrash in 1997 as a six-week all-male kollel geared toward understanding the process of deciding halakha.

In 2014, Aryeh Klapper left Gann Academy to run the Center for Modern Torah Leadership full-time.

Aryeh Klapper then crumpled the posters into a ball and tossed them into a nearby garbage can.

Aryeh Klapper later apologized for impugning the motives of the lecture's student organizers.

In December 2017, Aryeh Klapper spoke at YU's Revel Graduate School and was scholar-in-residence on YU's Beren Campus.

Aryeh Klapper has published in Tradition, Meorot, Dinei Yisrael, Beit Yitzchak and other journals and has presented at academic and community conferences.

Aryeh Klapper was a primary author behind the 2010 Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community, which was later signed by more than a hundred rabbis.

Aryeh Klapper has sat as a judge on the Boston Beit Din, an Orthodox Jewish court which hears approximately 40 divorce cases a year, since 2001.

Aryeh Klapper was previously a member of the beit din of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Aryeh Klapper is a co-founder of Brandeis University's Boston Agunah Taskforce, which aims to prevent and solve agunah cases in the Boston area.

Aryeh Klapper educates family lawyers and judges on Jewish divorce law and advocates for the Jewish prenuptial agreement.

Aryeh Klapper published his first book, Divine Will and Human Experience: Explorations of the Halakhic System and Its Values, in 2022.