Rabbi Zachary Truboff

Zachary Truboff is a rabbinic scholar, educator, and writer who lives in Jerusalem. He is the author of Torah Goes Forth From Zion: Essays on the Thought of Rav Kook and Rav Shagar and serves as the Director of the International Beit Din Institute for Agunah Research and Education.

Previously, he headed the English-speaking program of Zerufim, a project of Yeshivat Siach Yitzchak. His writings on Jewish Thought and Zionism have appeared in numerous publications such as the Times of Israel, Project 929, Sources, Conversations, Lehrhaus, Arutz Sheva, and Akdamot. He has worked as an educator for the Hartman Institute and the Wexner Foundation.

Before making aliyah, he served for nearly a decade as the rabbi of Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio, where he led the merger of three synagogues into one thriving community.  While there, he also worked as Director of Jewish Life and Culture at the Mandel JCC and founded the national award winning Cleveland Jewish Arts and Culture Lab. In 2015, he was chosen by the Cleveland Jewish News as one of its 18 Difference Makers, a select group honored for their contributions to Jewish communal life in Northeast Ohio.

Rabbi Truboff is originally from Sharon, Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he received a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. After college, Rabbi Truboff worked as an engineer before moving to Jerusalem to dedicate himself to full time Torah study. He studied and taught at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies and received semikha from HaRav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. Upon returning to America, he received an additional semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.