Yonason Sacks
Yonason Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi and the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro College, as well as the spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in Passaic, New Jersey. Family. 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. Education. 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". Rosh Yeshiva. 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 College. Works. Sacks is the author of more than 30 Jewish books, including: References and external links. Specific