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Rabbi Menachem Genack
Position	CEO / Rabbinic Administrator
Organisation	OU Kosher
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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. As such he oversees the kosher certification of 6000 facilities in 83 countries.^[1] 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. In 2008 The Forward listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States.^[2] He is a scholar of note as well.

Genack lives in Englewood, New Jersey, where he is rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah since 1985.^[1]^[3]

Genack was founding Chairman of NORPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee and serves on the executive committee of AIPAC.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b "At Corzine Inauguration, OU’s Rabbi Genack Delivers Benediction". oukosher.org. http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/common/article/at_corzine_inauguration_ous_rabbi_genack_delivers_benediction/.
^ "Forward 50, 2008". Forward.com. http://forward.com/forward-50-2008/.
^ ^a ^b "About Our Rabbi". Shomrei Emunah. http://www.shomreiemunahnj.org/OurShul/Rabbi.aspx.

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Roshei Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University

Rosh HaYeshiva: Norman Lamm • Dean: Yona Reiss • Dean Emeritus: Zevulun Charlop • Mashgiach Ruchani: Yosef Blau • Roshei Yeshiva: Elchanan Adler • Assaf Bednarsh • Eliyahu Ben-Ḫaim • J. David Bleich • Yitzchok Cohen • Menachem Genack • Ozer Glickman • Meir Goldwicht • David Hirsch • Dovid Horowitz • Aharon Kahn • Elyakim Koenigsberg • Aharon Lichtenstein • Zvulun Liberman • Dovid Miller • Yaakov Neuburger • Hershel Reichman • Michael Rosensweig • Yonason Sacks • Hershel Schachter • Ezra Schwartz • Eli Baruch Shulman • Baruch Simon • Zvi Sobolofsky • Moshe Tendler • Mayer Twersky • Joseph Weiss • Jeremy Wieder • Mordechai Willig • Gershon Yankelewitz

Former Roshei Yeshiva: Avraham Eliezer Alperstein • Nisson Alpert • Yosef Leib Arnest • Samuel Belkin • Yehuda David Bernstein • Abba Bronspiegel • Ahron Dovid Burack • Avigdor Cyperstein • Solomon Drillman • Henoch Fishman • Yerucham Gorelick • Michael Katz • Shlomo Nosson Kotler • Yaakov Moshe Lessin • Dovid Lifshitz • Moses Meir Matlin• Shraga Feivel Paretzky • Yehuda Parnes • Shlomo Polachek • Moshe Ahron Poleyeff • Elazar Meir Preil • Bernard Revel • Shimon Romm • Melech Schachter • Moshe Shatzkes • Shimon Shkop • Ahron Soloveichik • Joseph B. Soloveitchik • Moshe Soloveichik • Ephraim M. Steinberg • Shmuel Volk • Shalom Elchanan Yaffe • Mendel Zaks

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