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Rabbi
Willig, a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) at the
university’s Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of
Talmudic Studies since 1973, and s’gan rosh kollel
L’Horaah Yadin Yadin (assistant head of the post-graduate
institute) since 1987, is one of the world’s
leading authorities on issues pertaining to the agunah,
a Jewish woman who cannot obtain a religious divorce
because of a recalcitrant husband. Rabbi Willig received
a bachelor’s degree in math in 1968 and a master’s
degree in Jewish history in 1971. That year he also
received semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from RIETS.
Rabbi Willig is spiritual leader of the Young Israel
of Riverdale.
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