Ari Berman (born February 18, 1970) is an American Modern Orthodox/Religious Zionist rabbi and academic administrator serving as the fifth president of Yeshiva University.
Berman was raised in Queens in New York City, and graduated from the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in 1987.
[1] He studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yeshiva College, graduating magna cum laude in 1991, rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and an M.A.
He also taught Talmud in the Stone Beit Midrash Program of Yeshiva University starting in 1998.
He also served as Rosh HaMerkaz of the Heichal Shlomo Jewish Heritage Center in Jerusalem and was an instructor at Herzog College.