Menachem Genack

Menachem Genack
Rabbi Menachem Genack
Position CEO / Rabbinic Administrator
Organisation OU Kosher
Personal details
Nationality  United States of America
Denomination Orthodox

Menachem Genack is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher food. He is known as one of the foremost talmidim of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik under whom he studied for over a decade. He was also very close to Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro and Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. The Forward listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States.[1] He is a scholar of note as well.

Genack lives in Englewood, New Jersey.[2] His cousin, Julius Genachowski, is the chair of the Federal Communications Commission.[3]

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