Rabbi Mayer Schiller (born June 1951) is an American chasid based in Monsey, New York, who identifies himself as a member of Skver and Rachmastrivka groups, and is a spokesperson for the Skver community in New Square.
He taught at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University,[1] He is a baal teshuva, having begun practicing Orthodoxy in the spring of 1964 at age 12.
[2] He is a nationalist who criticizes liberal notions of race and the bias against traditional religion in today's media and popular culture.
[3][4] However, Schiller has also advocated a universalist morality and embrace of the Other, provided that is pursued without loss to group identity.
Schiller is also the author of two books - The Road Back: A Discovery of Judaism Without Embellishments, The (Guilty) Conscience of a Conservative (under the name Craig Schiller) -and a monograph in defense of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Torah Im Derech Eretz philosophy, titled "And They Shall Judge the People With True Righteousness".