Rabbi Yitz Greenberg

Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg is a preeminent Jewish thinker, theologian, activist, president of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Hadar Institute. Together with Elie Wiesel, he founded CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and served as its president until 1997. From 1997 to 2008, he served as founding president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. Rabbi Greenberg was one of the founders of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and a pioneer in the development of Holocaust education and commemoration, serving as the Executive Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust in 1975 and as chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum in 2000-2002. He is the author of five books, including The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (JPS, 2024).