Rabbi Steven Burg is currently serving as the Director General (Mankal) of Aish HaTorah Jerusalem. Rabbi Burg has a Masters in Medieval Jewish History as well as Rabbinic Ordination form Yeshiva University. He has completed management courses at Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Following his ordination, Rabbi Burg worked for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU) for 22 years.
Rabbi Burg founded the Jewish Student Union (JSU), a network of hundreds of public high school clubs that teach unaffiliated Jewish teens about their heritage. He started the Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey (TJJ) an Israel experience for unaffiliated Jewish teens.
Rabbi Burg later served as the Managing Director of OU and most recently, as the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
