[4] Rabbi Meiselman graduated from high school at the Boston Latin School[5] and then went on to attend Harvard College (which all three of Soloveitchik's children and his American grandchildren attended) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his doctorate in mathematics in 1967 with the thesis "The Operation Ring for Connective K-Theory".
[2] In 1977 he moved to the West Coast and founded the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA), opening separate high school programs for boys and girls, a yeshivah gedolah, and a kolel.
Additionally, Rabbi Meiselman has authored Tiferes Tzvi, a commentary to the Rambam, as well as numerous articles on Talmudic study and thought in Hebrew.
Rabbi Meiselman's 2013 book, Torah, Chazal and Science, promotes the theory that all unqualified scientific statements of the Talmudic sages are sourced from the word of God, who can not be wrong, and are therefore immutable: "All of Chazal’s (the Talmudic sages') definitive statements are to be taken as absolute fact [even] outside the realm of halakhah (Jewish law)".
[9] The flip side of this thesis, and another major theme of the book, is that modern science is transitory and unreliable compared to the divine wisdom of the sages.
He writes that "the turning away from the status of an am ha-nivhar, a chosen people, and the frightening rush toward assimilation were, according to the rules that govern Jewish destiny, the real causes for the Holocaust.
"[12] In 2013, Rabbi Meiselman sat on the dais at a rally in NY against conscription of yeshiva students into the Israeli army.