Rabbi Dr Meir Soloveichik is one of America’s most influential religious leaders. He uniquely straddles the worlds of academia, journalism, and clergy. He is the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish community in the United States, founded in 1654. Rabbi Soloveichik lectures and writes on topics relating to faith in America, the Hebraic roots of the American founding, Jewish theology, bioethics, wartime ethics, and Jewish-Christian relations. He writes a monthly column in Commentary, and his essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.