Menachem Genack

Menachem Genack is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher food. As such he oversees the kosher certification of 6000 facilities in 83 countries.^[1] He is known as one of the foremost talmidim of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik under whom he studied for over a decade. He was also very close to Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro and Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. In 2008 The Jewish Daily Forward listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States.^[2] He is a scholar of note as well.

Genack lives in Englewood, New Jersey, where he is rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah since 1985.^[1]^[3]

Genack was founding Chairman of NORPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee and serves on the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.^[3]

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Rosh HaYeshiva: Norman Lamm
Dean: Menachem Penner
Dean Emeritus: Zevulun Charlop
Senior Mashgiach Ruchani: Yosef Blau
Mashgichim: Ely Bacon; Josh Blass
Mashpia: Moshe Weinberger
Roshei Yeshiva: Elchanan Adler; Assaf Bednarsh; Eliyahu Ben Haim; J. David Bleich; Yitzchok Cohen; Daniel Feldman; Menachem Genack; Ozer Glickman; Meir Goldwicht; David Hirsch; Dovid Horwitz; Aharon Kahn; Elyakim Koenigsberg; Dovid Miller; Yaakov Neuburger; Hershel Reichman; Michael Rosensweig; Hershel Schachter; Ezra Schwartz; Eli Baruch Shulman; Baruch Simon; Zvi Sobolofsky; Daniel Stein; Moshe Tendler; Mayer Twersky; Jeremy Wieder; Mordechai Willig

Former Roshei Yeshiva: Avraham Eliezer Alperstein; Nisson Alpert; Yosef Leib Arnest; Samuel Belkin; Yehuda David Bernstein; Abba Bronspiegel; Ahron Dovid Burack; Avigdor Cyperstein; Solomon Drillman; Henoch Fishman; Yerucham Gorelick; Michael Katz; Shlomo Nosson Kotler; Yaakov Moshe Lessin; Aharon Lichtenstein; Zvulun Lieberman; Dovid Lifshitz; Moses Meir Matlin; Shraga Feivel Paretzky; Yehuda Parnes; Shlomo Polachek; Moshe Ahron Poleyeff; Elazar Meir Preil; Bernard Revel; Shimon Romm; Yonason Sacks; Melech Schachter; Moshe Shatzkes; Shimon Shkop; Ahron Soloveichik; Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Moshe Soloveichik; Ephraim M. Steinberg; Shmuel Volk; Joseph Weiss; Shalom Elchanan Yaffe; Gershon Yankelewitz; Mendel Zaks

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