11 Facts About Mordechai Willig

Mordechai Willig studied under Lichtenstein in the Kollel at Yeshiva University from 1968 to 1971, during Lichtenstein's last three years at YU.

Mordechai Willig travelled to the Yeshiva in Israel to give a trial shiur.

In 1977, Mordechai Willig was recruited to teach the more advanced women.

Mordechai Willig has been the rabbi and spiritual leader at the Young Israel of Riverdale Synagogue in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York since 1974.

Mordechai Willig is the av beis din of the Beth Din of America, the court of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Mordechai Willig co-authored the Rabbinical Council of America's prenuptial agreement with Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg.

In 1989, Mordechai Willig led a Bet Din that heard allegations of abuse by Rabbi Baruch Lanner.

On February 19,2003, Mordechai Willig apologized for reaching what he eventually realized to be incorrect conclusions and for other "mistakes" made during the 1989 Bet Din proceedings.

Mordechai Willig noted that since the Bet Din did not have experience adjudicating matters of abuse, they should not have agreed to take the case.

Mordechai Willig is the first cousin of Avi Weiss, the former senior Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.

Weiss and Mordechai Willig are part of the Vaad of Riverdale.