by Rabbi Asher Lopatin
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Rabbi Asher Lopatin is the founding rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chayim, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Detroit, and the founding director of the Detroit National Center for Civil Discourse. He served as president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School since July, 2013, and before that, for eighteen years as the rabbi of the Modern Orthodox Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago. Rabbi Lopatin received ordination from Rav Ahron Soloveichik and Yeshivas Brisk in Chicago, and from Yeshiva University, as a Wexner Graduate Fellow and is a Rhodes Scholar with an M. Phil in Medieval Arabic Thought from Oxford University. Rabbi Lopatin is married to Rachel Tessler Lopatin and they have four children.