Shubert Spero

Shubert Spero (PhD Case Western Reserve University) is an ordained Orthodox rabbi who recently retired as Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University, having occupied that chair since moving to Israel in 1983 from the United States. He has served as the spiritual leader of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio (1950-1983), and has been a major voice of modern Orthodox Judaism. He taught philosophy at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Case Western Reserve University, during much of...See more

Shubert Spero (PhD Case Western Reserve University) is an ordained Orthodox rabbi who recently retired as Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University, having occupied that chair since moving to Israel in 1983 from the United States. He has served as the spiritual leader of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio (1950-1983), and has been a major voice of modern Orthodox Judaism. He taught philosophy at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Case Western Reserve University, during much of that period. He is the author of God in All Seasons (1967), Morality, Halacha and the Jewish Tradition (1983), Holocaust and the Return to Zion: A Study in Jewish Philosophy of History (2000), Aspects of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Judaism (2009), and numerous essays in philosophical journals. See less