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Rabbi Wayne Allen

Born and raised in New York City and currently a resident of Toronto, Rabbi Wayne Allen has blended a career of service to the Jewish community as an ordained rabbi with his academic pursuits.  Rabbi Allen is recognized as an expert both in Jewish law and in 18th century British moral philosophy.  The books he has written and those he has edited are distinguished by the inclusion of philosophical analysis and historical context, adding an extra dimension to the more traditional forms of responding to questions on Jewish practice.  He is a panelist for Jewish Values On-line, an Internet site devoted to providing authoritative answers to questions on Jewish life.

Rabbi Allen has traveled extensively and has led groups to Europe and Israel, lecturing beforehand on the history of the communities to be visited.  He has served as a faculty member at the American Jewish University where he taught Jewish law, at California State University Long Beach where he taught the History of Modern Jewish Thought and Zionism, and at the University of Waterloo where he taught Theology After the Holocaust.  He has also been invited as a guest lecturer at York University in Toronto and at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Allen has served as a scholar-in-residence at synagogues in St. Louis and Ottawa and currently teaches at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto where he serves as chairman of the Rabbinics Department.

Samples of Rabbi Allen’s teaching are accessible on his website, www.rabbiwayneallen.ca.

Rabbi Allen's published books, available from the UTJ Bookstore are:

RESPONSA

The Jewish Status of Those Whose Lineage is Indeterminate

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
July 9, 2024

Categories: Converts/Conversion, Halakhah, Life Cycle, Modern Judaism, Tomeikh KaHalakhah
Some Rabbinic Concepts of Evil VIDEOS

Some Rabbinic Concepts of Evil

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
August 8, 2023

Categories: Philosophy, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
ARTICLE

Leftist Antisemitism

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
January 29, 2023

Categories: Anti-Semitism, Modern Judaism
RESPONSA

The Kashrut of Laboratory Produced Meat

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
March 23, 2018

Categories: Halakhah, Kashruth, Kashruth, Modern Judaism
RESPONSA

Is Oral Sex Permitted?

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
November 22, 2017

Categories: Halakhah, Relationships, Tomeikh KaHalakhah
RESPONSA

May Anesthetics be Used for Infant Circumcision?

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
November 20, 2017

Categories: Halakhah, Halakhah, Modern Judaism, Tomeikh KaHalakhah
ARTICLE

A Tribute to Rav Halivni

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
July 4, 2022

Categories: Modern Judaism, Remembering Rabbi Halivni Z"L
RESPONSA

May China be Kashered?

by Rabbi Wayne Allen and Rabbi Gershon Bacon
July 30, 2017

Categories: Halakhah, Tomeikh KaHalakhah
Thinking About Good and Evil VIDEOS

Thinking About Good and Evil

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg and Rabbi Wayne Allen
May 11, 2021

Categories: Philosophy, UTJ Events

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