Moshe Sokol, professor of Jewish philosophy, also founded and served as dean of Lander College for Men for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Thyssen Foundation Research Fellow, and received semicha from the Israel Torah Research Institute (ITRI) in Jerusalem after seven years of post-high school studies in yeshivos in Philadelphia, New York and Israel. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and Touro College graduate and undergraduate schools.

He has served Touro College in various administrative capacities, including founding and directing the Graduate School of Jewish Studies and a collaborative medical program with the Technion in Israel. He has also served as senior program officer at the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, where he traveled around the world organizing seminars and educational programs. Rabbi Sokol has published over two dozen essays in Israeli, British and American journals and six books in the fields of Jewish philosophy and morality, and is a sought-after expert on the integration of Jewish law and professional ethics. Sokol’s continued examination of ethical and halachic issues marks him as a new pioneer in Jewish philosophy.