1. Gil Ofer Student was born on August 8,1972 and is the former Book Editor of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine, former Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Gil Student is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi who serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine and the Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
Gil Student is currently serving on his third term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America.
Gil Student is an alumnus of Solomon Schechter elementary school and Frisch School and a baal teshuva.
Gil Student is a 1994 graduate of Yeshiva College and was listed in the 2005 alumni directory as a rabbi and a quantitative analyst working in financial reinsurance.
Gil Student is married and has four children and three grandchildren.
Gil Student's writings appear mainly on the Internet on his old and his new blog, Hirhurim Musings.
Gil Student has received other recognition for his blogging and views by Yeshiva University's student newspapers The Commentator and The Observer.
Gil Student founded and operated a now-defunct small Jewish publishing house, Yashar Books, that, in addition to traditional Orthodox scholarly works, used to distribute the writings of Orthodox thinkers who defy the accepted norms of publications in the Haredi world; the latter include works that were previously distributed by prominent publishers such as Feldheim.
Gil Student's publishing company has undertaken to distribute the works of Rabbi Natan Slifkin whose books were banned by many Haredi rabbis as well as other works that are not openly approved by the Haredi mainstream rabbinate.
Gil Student has written defending the Talmud against those who claim that it defames gentiles or Jesus.
Gil Student is often cited by rabbis belonging to the Rabbinical Council of America, and eminent writers frequently respond to Gil Student's writings and statements on their own websites and blogs.
Over on a blog called Hirhurim Musings, a Torah scholar by the name of Gil Student takes on my critique of the Catholic translation known as the New American Bible in the current issue of FIRST THINGS.
Gil Student admits that he's not familiar with the NAB and is, in fact, not much interested in English translations of the Bible, but, picking up on some of the examples I cite in my essay 'Bible Babel,' he comes to the defense of the NAB translators.