Rabbi Natan Slifkin, a.k.a. the Zoo Rabbi, is a lecturer at yeshivos and seminaries in Israel, the author of numerous books on Torah and the natural world, and has taught Zoo Torah to thousands of people worldwide.
Click on the links below to learn more about his fascinating and unique career.
If you would like to contact Rabbi Slifkin, write to zoorabbi@zootorah.com.
The Zoo Rabbi and Friends – Wild encounters with some wild animals!
Wild Wild Animal Videos – A must see! (but you'll need a fast connection)
African Adventure – A hilarious and fascinating journal of a safari in Kenya many years ago
Listen to Nachum Segal interview Rabbi Natan Slifkin
"Rabbi Slifkin has made a career of reconciling Jewish Scripture with modern natural history... With nine books to his name at age 29, he is a young up-and-comer in the sober world of Jewish scholarship." - The New York Times, March 2005
"Rabbi Natan Slifkin... popularly known as the "Zoo Rabbi" because of his consuming fascination with the animal kingdom and his Steve Irwin-esque pedagogical style... has emerged as a central figure in the ultra-Orthodox struggle to define the proper place of science within Judaism." - The Wall Street Journal, June 2007
"Combine an amateur zoologist and naturalist, a talmid chacham, and a gifted writer, and you get Rabbi Nosson Slifkin... Rabbi Slifkin is an all-around Renaissance man and his activities and achievements at such a young age are dizzying." Milk and Honey, Winter 2002