Kenneth Jeremy Wieder (born February 1971, also RKJW) is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University, located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
He holds the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Talmud.
Wieder was one of the first Americans to win the International Bible Contest,[1] and later graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College in 1991, and received an M.S.
In 2005, he received a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
[2] Wieder has over 500 lectures on Judaism captured on media and available online.