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Mitch Morrison

In the professional world, Mitch Morrison is an award-winning journalist with a ceaseless curiosity that has crossed over into the Jewish World.

Raised in Brookline, MA, and guided by the philosophical approach of Rav Joseph Soloveitchik, zt’l, Mitch has spent much of his adult life volunteering on the education boards of Jewish Day Schools, Orthodox synagogues and today continues his volunteer activities with Partners in Torah, and helps pen opinion pieces for multiple rabbis. 

Upon graduating from Maimonides Day School, Mitch enrolled at Boston University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in journalism with magna cum laude honors.  From there, he studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat, learning under both Rabbis Shlomo Riskin and Chaim Brovender.

Since the late 1980s, Mitch has worked at newspapers and business magazines, and is currently a vice president for a business trade media, where he writes and speaks about retailing trends and interfaces with many top retail executives.

Mitch joined the UTJ in the early 1990s, drawn by the organization’s synthesis of fidelity to halakhah with academic and historical scholarship.

“The UTJ brings a Torah approach that is three-dimensional,” Mitch says.  “It recognizes that Torah and halakhah do not reside in some far-off island, unaware or consciously ignorant of society’s flaws and fortunes. The beauty of Torah is that it’s built for humankind and, when lived and applied properly, underwrites an extraordinary morality that elevates everyone it touches.”

Over 20+ years with the UTJ, Mitch edited its Hagahelet newsletter and has helped organize events, including on halakhic conversion, sexual molestation in the halakhic community, and challenges confronting adult singles.

Mitch and his wife, Leslie, are the proud parents of two children and reside in Passaic, NJ.

ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Jewish Link)

In Memory of Rav David Weiss Halivni, zt”l

by Mitch Morrison
July 7, 2022

Categories: Articles, Holocaust, Modern Judaism, Remembering Rabbi Halivni Z"L
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Jewish Link)

In Memory of Rabbi Chaim Wasserman, zt”l

by Mitch Morrison
July 7, 2022

Categories: Articles, Denominations, Israel, Modern Judaism, Politics
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Jewish Link)

Do We All Scream for Ice Cream?

by Mitch Morrison
July 22, 2021

Categories: Articles, Denominations, Israel, Modern Judaism, Politics
ARTICLE

Not Splitting Hairs: Divorce and Widowed Women In the Observant Jewish Community

by Mitch Morrison
February 24, 2021

Categories: Modern Judaism, Pastoral care, Women's Forum
ARTICLE

Discussion of Rabbi Zev Farber’s “Can Orthodox Education Survive Biblical Criticism?”

by Rabbi Noah Gradofsky, Mitch Morrison and Rabbi Gerald Sussman
February 9, 2021

Categories: Modern Judaism, Philosophy, Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The New York Jewish Week)

To Protect Life During a Plague, Build Yourself a Fence

by Rabbi Noah Gradofsky and Mitch Morrison
May 11, 2020

Categories: Coronavirus, Halakhah, Halakhah
ARTICLE

Why Would an Orthodox Jew Join UTJ?

by Mitch Morrison
October 2, 2019

Categories: Denominations, Halakhah, Modern Judaism
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The New York Jewish Week)

At Orthodox Celebrations, The Separation Of Sexes Goes Too Far

by Mitch Morrison
October 16, 2019

Categories: Denominations, Halakhah, Modern Judaism, Women's Forum
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Jewish Week)

The Sin Of Religious Intransigence

by Mitch Morrison
September 22, 2019

Categories: Denominations, Modern Judaism

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