Rabbi Adlerstein is the Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the global Jewish human rights organization. Until his move to Jerusalem, he held the Sydney M Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School.

Rabbi Adlerstein is the Founding Editor of and regular contributor to Cross-Currents, a popular blog of Torah and current affairs. Dozens of his essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the National Law Journal, FoxNews.com and a host of Jewish and general printed and electronic media. He serves on the editorial boards of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action, and the online journal of community responsibility Klal Perspectives. He has been a long-time vocal advocate, in speaking to both Orthodox Jews and Christian, for strengthening the new alliance between all who take God’s Word seriously.

He has appeared on ABC’s 20/20, CBS National News, FoxNews, and radio stations across the US, including regular appearances on Christian radio. He has published on the Be’er Hagolah of the Maharal of Prague, and two volumes on the Slonimer Rebbe’s Nesivos Shalom. He assisted in the editorial review of Artscroll/Mesorah Publications’ edition of Ramban.

Rabbi Adlerstein received his ordination from the Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in New York. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to his aliyah to Israel, Rabbi Adlerstein lived in LA for close to four decades with his wife Reena. They have eight children, and are working on maxing out on grandchildren.