Ammiel Hirsch

He is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America.

Hirsch was born in the United States[2] to Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch (born 1926),[3] a Reform rabbi who founded the movement's Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C.,[3] and Executive Director Emeritus of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

[3][6] Hirsch spent his high school years in Israel and served in the IDF as a tank commander.

Honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1985.

[14] The book was denounced by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America[15] and the heads of Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New Jersey, where Reinman received his rabbinic ordination.