Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler is the Rosh Hayeshiva, or Academic President, of Beth Medrash Govoha (BMG), an accredited institution of higher education that is located in Lakewood, New Jersey. Serving with him as Roshei Yeshiva (Deans) are Rabbis Dovid Schustal, Yeruchem Olshin and Yisroel Neuman. He is the son of Rabbi Shneur Kotler, who preceded him as Rosh Yeshiva, grandson of BMG's founder, Rabbi Aaron Kotler, and great-grandson of the famed Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer.
He has appointed to his position in 1982, upon the passing of his father, Rav Shneur. At that time BMG had an enrollment of some 800. BMG has flourished as a result of his leadership, with its size growing more than 800%, to a current enrollment of some 6,400 undergraduate and graduate students. In the thirty years of his tenure BMG developed into a world renowned institution for Talmudic studies, or Yeshiva, attracting a unique scope and breadth of talent to BMG's faculty and adminstration. Rabbi Malkiel is a member of Agudath Israel's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages), which sets policy for much of America's Orthodox Jewish communities, and he is widely acknowledged as the leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, N.J.
He speaks and lectures widely, both within Beth Medrash Govoha and throughout the United States. He is married with four children.
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