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Yonason Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi and the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro University, as well as the spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov [1] in Passaic, New Jersey.
Sacks' grandfather was one of the leaders of Jewish education in Chicago, Illinois, and his great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank. Sacks dedicated his first book, Chemdas Yomim (focusing on the laws of the Sabbath) in memory of his father.
Sacks lives with his family in Passaic.
Sacks attended the high school headed by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi Pinchas Bak in Riverdale, New York in the mid 1970s.
Sacks graduated from Yeshiva University in 1981 and was ordained by the University's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1984. Two years later, he was awarded yadin yadin semicha.
Sacks was rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University from 1994 until 2012, when he became rosh yeshiva at Beis Midrash L'Talmud, a part of Lander College, a division of Touro University.
Sacks is the author of more than 45 Jewish books, including:
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