Rabbi Oren Z. Steinitz, PhD

Rabbi Oren Z. Steinitz is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom Chevra-Shas in Syracuse, NY. He was ordained in 2014, and is a member of OHALAH Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal and the Beit Kaplan Rabbinic Alliance for Jewish Peoplehood

In 2020, after years of rigorous studying of the laws of conversion to Judaism and Jewish divorce, Rabbi Steinitz received advanced rabbinic ordination as Dayan -- a mediator and adjudicator of Jewish Law -- from Rabbi Daniel Siegel and ALEPH Canada's Integral Halacha Institute.

He is one of a handful of non-Orthodox rabbis trained as a mesader gittin, facilitating Jewish divorce with care and integrity.

Rabbi Steinitz holds a doctorate from University of Calgary‘s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (Religious Studies, Communications and Israel Studies), researching the attitude towards the “Other” in Jewish and Islamic legal websites. In addition, he holds BA and MA degrees from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). He taught at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and The ALEPH Ordinations Program as well as in different synagogues and Jewish Community Centers.

Rabbi Steinitz is the founder of Hamotzi Press, and the creator of The Triennial Chumash.