Berger, Shalom Zvi

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Name (Hebrew)
ברגר, שלום צבי, 1960-
Name (Latin)
Berger, Shalom Zvi
Other forms of name
בערגער, שלום צבי, 1960-
Date of birth
1960-02-04
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17020080
Wikidata: Q7487302
Library of congress: no2007155940
Sources of Information
  • A year of study in an Israeli yeshiva program, 1997 :t.p. (Shalom Zvi Berger)
  • Flipping out? 2007 :t.p. (Shalom Z. Berger) p. xi (lives in Israel since 1991 ; on staff of Lookstein Center for Jewish Education and founding editor of the journal Jewish Educational Leadership and Lookjed listserv)
  • The Author's Flipping out?, 2007.
  • Koren Talmud Bavli, 2012 :t.p. of vol. 1 (senior content editor, Rabbi Dr. Shalom Z. Berger)
  • ספר גליוני מהר"י על שו"ע יורה דעה:
  • Shalom Berger (born February 4, 1960) is an Orthodox Jewish scholar and educational activist. ( (Wikipedia, viewed 15 January 2023) )
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Wikipedia description:

Shalom Berger (Hebrew: שלום ברגר) is an Orthodox Jewish scholar and educational activist. Berger was born and raised in the United States. He studied in Yeshiva Chaim Berlin high school in Brooklyn under Yitzchak Hutner, in Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel under Aharon Lichtenstein and Yehuda Amital and in Yeshiva University. He earned Semicha (rabbinic ordination), a BA in mathematics and an MS and EdD in education at Yeshiva University, and an MPA in Public Administration from Baruch College. Prior to moving to Israel in 1991, Berger taught in the Frisch School and later in HAFTR High School, where he served as director of Israel Guidance. In Israel he taught in BMT and Midreshet Lindenbaum. In 1998 he began working at the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education, part of the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University. In recent years he has written for the Aleph Society/Steinsaltz Center, where he was the senior content editor of the Koren/Steinsaltz English Talmud. He heads the English-language programming for Herzog College at its Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz campuses. He also serves on the Zomet Institute's Rabbinical Conversion Court in Alon Shvut.

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