Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY, Permanent Scholar- in-Residence to Chabad at Harvard, Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Jewish Chaplain to the Hartford Fire Department.
Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars throughout North America, as well as in Mexico, Europe, and South Africa.
Rabbi Yaffe was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Portland, ME, and Los Angeles, CA. He studied at Yeshivot (rabbinic colleges) in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Brooklyn, NY in 1989.
He was a fellow of the post-ordination program at the Leeds Kollel in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England from 1990- 1992.