Background and Focus

Rabbi Adam Mintz the rabbi of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox community he founded on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is also the Director of 929 English, a web-based project that promotes the daily study of a chapter of Tanakh and provides an opportunity for English-speaking Jewry around the world to engage in a conversation centered around the daily chapter. In addition, Rabbi Mintz is a member of the Talmud faculty at Yeshivat Maharat and has taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at City College, New York for the past six years.

Rabbi Mintz received his rabbinical ordination at Yeshiva University where he received both Yoreh Yoreh and yadin yadin semikha. He obtained his PhD in Jewish History at New York University where he wrote his dissertation on the topic of “Halakhah in America: The History of City Eruvin 1894-1962.” He is married to Sharon and they have three children Noam (married to Lily), Ariel and Shoshana.