Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg is the President of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. JLN’s mission is to create new institutions and initiatives to enrich the inner life of American Jewry. Greenberg also served as Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 2000-2002. He has written extensively on the theory and practice of pluralism and on the theology of Jewish-Christian relations.

An ordained Orthodox rabbi, a Harvard Ph.D. and scholar, Rabbi Greenberg has been a seminal thinker in confronting the Holocaust as an historical transforming event and Israel as the Jewish assumption of power and the beginning of a third era in Jewish history. Rabbi Greenberg has published numerous articles and monographs on Jewish thought and religion, including The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays, Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World and For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity.

From 1974 through 1997, he served as founding President of CLAL — The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Prior to that, he served as Rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, as Associate Professor of History at Yeshiva University, and as founder, chairman and Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies of City College of the City University of New York.

Jewish Life Network jewishlife.org

Greenberg page at Jewish Life Network jewishlife.org/about.html#greenberg

Greenberg page at CLAL www.clal.org/clal_faculty_yg.html

Greenberg page at Beliefnet www.beliefnet.com/author/author_60.html

Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership archived story www.clal.org/e102.html

"In Appreciation of Irving Greenberg" by James Carroll www.jewishpub.org/pdf/Greenberg247-249.pdf