Some of the statement's more notable supporters are Rabbi Marc Angel, co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship ; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, founder of Lincoln Square Synagogue, Efrat, and Ohr Torah Stone Institutions ; and Rabbi Avi Weiss, head of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, and co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship.

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel writes that " There has been a general reluctance in Jewish tradition to speculate on the metaphysical aspects of creation ," and that " the general Jewish attitude throughout the ages has been that God created the world ex nihilo and further notes:

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel replied that " we should be frightened by the possibility.

* Rabbi Marc D. Angel-former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, rabbi of Shearith Israel ( a Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York ), and a co-founder of the IRF ( International Rabbinic Fellowship ).

* Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's Program of Torah u-Madda, Marc B. Shapiro

* Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's Program of Torah u-Madda, Marc B. Shapiro

Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, WJC Vice-President Rabbi Marc Schneier, and British Imam Abdujalil Sajid in Brussels, December 2010The World Jewish Congress considers dialogue with representatives of moderate Islam as “ one of the most important and challenging issues at this time.

Together with Rabbi Marc Schneier he served as the official patron of the conference held July 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Rabbi Marc Mandel, the former Associate Rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, CA, became the new Senior Rabbi in July 2012.

The organization would be a parent body for boards of rabbis in individual communities, with its first president being Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier, who was then serving as president of the New York Board of Rabbis.

These include writer, teacher and physician Deepak Chopra ; Trappist monk Father Thomas Keating ; Rabbi Marc Gopin ; Integral philosopher and author Steve McIntosh ; social critic, scientist, Muslim scholar and Noble Prize nominee Munawar Anees ; spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle ; spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ; author Howard Bloom, scientist Rupert Sheldrake ; evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris ; and others.

Rabbi Marc Gellman rejects it outright in a 2005 Newsweek column:

* Newsweek " Inhumanity to Jews " by Rabbi Marc Gellman

He has appeared in the television show Cheap Seats, on ESPN Classic, as " Gene Stapleton " and " Rabbi Marc Shalowitz ".

Marc D. Angel ( born 1945 ) is Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City.

* The Open Siddur Project: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book ( translated by Rabbi Simeon Singer, 1890 )

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

For example, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of the Makhon Shilo institute has issued a siddur reflecting Eretz Yisrael practice as found in the Jerusalem Talmud and other sources.

He is committed to intensive and original Torah study, and articulates a bold Jewish worldview that embraces modernity, reflecting the tradition of his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

He is committed to intensive and original Torah study and articulates a bold Jewish worldview that embraces elements of modernity within the framework of a Torah life, reflecting the tradition of his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in line with Centrist Orthodoxy.

Historically, children across Israel used to go out and play with bows and arrows, reflecting the Midrashic statement that the rainbow ( the sign of Gods promise to never again destroy the earth with a flood Gen9: 11-13 ) was not seen during Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's lifetime, as his merit protected the world.

For example, Hoffmann in The First Mishna sees the present Mishna Avot as having been redacted from three different sources, a Mishna of Rabbi Akiva, a Mishna of Rabbi Meir, and a Mishna of Rabbi Judah Ha-Nasi, the originals of which cannot be completely reconstructed due to their thoroughgoing fusion and subsequent manipulation.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.

These four are all roshei yeshiva ( i. e., rabbinic leaders ) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, the largest and most influential Modern Orthodox rabbinic program in America.

Rabbi Weiss is also notable for his ordination of Sara Hurwitz, which was strongly condemned by the Haredi Agudath Yisrael ( which called it non-Orthodox ), and also firmly rejected by the Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America.

* The commentary by Rabbi Pinhas Kehati, which is written in Modern Israeli Hebrew and based on classical and contemporary works, has become popular in the late Twentieth Century.

In 1912, he helped to create the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Israel Friedlander.

Rabbi Norman Lamm, one of the leaders of Modern Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, opposes giving semicha to women.

In his 1954 responsum on relations with non-Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik developed the intellectual foundations for the way Modern Orthodox Judaism was to approach the issue in subsequent decades.

* The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Mussar Transformation for the Modern Jew, Rabbi Arthur Segal, Amazon Books, 2009

Rabbi Irving Greenberg is a Modern Orthodox rabbi who has written extensively on how the Holocaust should affect Jewish theology.

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, a Modern Orthodox rabbi who serves as a Rosh Yeshiva in Har Etzion

* Rabbi Dr. Shalom Carmy-professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Yeshiva University ; a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian and student of The Rav

* Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik-Known as " The Rav ", he was effectively the spiritual and intellectual guide of Modern Orthodoxy in America for the mid-20th century.

* The Ideology of Modern Orthodoxy Rabbi Saul J. Berman

* What is Modern Orthodoxy ?, Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig of Yeshivat Hamivtar

* What is Modern Orthodoxy ?, Rabbi Chanoch Waxman of Yeshivat Hamivtar

*" Open Orthodoxy: A Modern Orthodox Rabbi's Creed " Rabbi Avraham ( Avi ) Weiss ( pdf )

* Is Modern Orthodoxy Synonymous with Laxity in Halacha ?, Rabbi Chanoch Waxman

* Modern Orthodoxy and Its Future, Rabbi Norman Lamm

* Modern Orthodoxy Is Always At The Crossroads, Rabbi Michael Broyde

In practice, the predominant position of Modern Orthodoxy on this issue is based on the position of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik in an essay entitled Confrontation.

* Avi Weiss ( born 1944 ), activist Modern Orthodox Rabbi.

See further in the article on Rabbi Hirsch and additionally under Modern Orthodoxy.