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Adlerstein is the director of Interfaith Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He holds the Sydney M. Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School and teaches senior high school girls at Yeshiva of Los Angeles.
He writes regularly for the Cross-Currents blog. He is frequently quoted by the Los Angeles Times and many other print and online publications as a voice of Haredi Judaism.
In 2000, his elucidation of "Be'er Hagolah" (ISBN 1-57819-463-6) the classic defense of Rabbinic Judaism by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525–1609) (known as the Maharal) was published by Mesorah Publications, a subsidiary of ArtScroll the leading publishers of English language Orthodox Judaica. In 2013, he published an English language adaptation of Nesivos Shalom of the Slonimer Rebbe.
He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Reena, known for her exceptional culinary skills and hospitality.
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