Moshe Kletenik
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Rabbi Moshe Kletenik is an American rabbi. He was born in Chicago in 1954 to Rabbi Shya and Rochelle Kletenik. After studying in the Hebrew Theological College and Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago, he received semicha from Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik and completed his BA at Roosevelt University in mathematics. He has served as a congregational rabbi, at Shaare Torah Congregation of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and presently in Seattle at Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Congregation.
Kletenik is a Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America. He is a member of the Faith Advisory Board to Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State. He has written extensively on contemporary issues of Jewish law, especially Jewish medical ethics, and published in journals such as Hadarom, Hapardes and Aspaklaria and the RCA Sermon Anthology Series which he has co-edited. Kletenik lectures at medical ethics conferences such as Bar Ilan University.
Kletenik presently heads the Semicha Standards Committee of the RCA. [1] This committee "determine[s] which institutional and private semichot are acceptable for membership in the RCA."
Kletenik brokered the conversion deal between the RCA and Israeli Chief Rabbanite. He defended this controversial deal in an editorial.[2]
He is married to Rivy Poupko Kletenik.
[edit] References
- Rosenstein, Neil. The Unbroken Chain. Lakewood, NJ: CIS, 1990. p. 294
- Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)
- The Orthodox Union
