R' Yona Reiss
Rabbi Reiss is the Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council, a Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, and Chaver Beth Din at the Beth Din of America. A Yadin Yadin musmach of RIETS and an attorney who was an associate for six years at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Rabbi Reiss is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was previously the Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS, and before that he served as Director of the Beth Din of America. Rabbi Reiss is a member of the editorial board of Tradition. He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Law Journal. Recently he published a sefer, Kanfei Yonah. It is a collection of essays and responsa relating to a variety of contemporary halakhic and hashkafic issues. To purchase it please email the crc at info@crcweb.org
