Rabbi Yehuda Seif
Rabbi Yehuda Seif is a Senior Program Officer at the Tikvah Fund, a foundation devoted to Jewish excellence and promoting serious Jewish thought about the enduring questions of human life and the pressing challenges that confront the Jewish people.
Along with his wife Orit, Rabbi Seif served as the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus educator at the University of Pennsylvania from 2002-2006. He spent three years learning at Yeshivat Har Etzion and received his ordination from Rav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg. Rabbi Seif is an alumnus of Columbia College, where he majored in Religion and Philosophy, and received his Master's Degree in Religion and Education from Columbia's Teacher's College, and Israeli Teacher Certification from Herzog College. Rabbi Seif is currently working toward completing a doctorate at Penn in Medieval Jewish Studies, focusing on charity law and practices in medieval Ashkenaz. He is also a fellow at the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at the Cardozo School of Law.
Rabbi Seif chairs Education Committee at the Torah Academy of Greater Philadelphia and sits on that school's Executive Board of Directors.
He and Orit live in Bala Cynwyd, PA with their sons Abie, Izzy, and Uriel.