Rabbi Glazerson was born and educated in Israel. He studied at Medrashiat Noam in Pardes Chana and at various Yeshivot, including Kfar Chassidim, Ponievez, and Chevron. In 1964, after just being married, he went to Johannesburg, South Africa, where established the Yeshivah Torat Emet and became its head until he returned to Israel in 1980. Rabbi Glazerson has been involved in bringing many Jewish youngsters back to their Jewish roots. He has authored more than 30 books in Hebrew, most of which have been translated into Russian, French, Spanish,and English. … Continue reading →

Robert Haralick was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 30, 1943. He received a B.A. degree in Mathematics from the University of Kansas in 1964, a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1966 and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1967. In 1969, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department there where he last served as Professor from 1975 to 1978. In 1979 Dr. Haralick joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University … Continue reading →

Doron Witztum was a post-graduate physics student before Torah codes captured his attention in the mid-1980s when he became friends with Professor Rips. He and Professor Rips worked together systematizing a way of examining the Torah code phenomenon to formally test the hypothesis of whether or not they occur by chance. The result of their joint work was eventually published in Statistical Science in 1994. Since then Doron has dedicated his professional efforts to the development of advanced techniques for detecting and testing the Torah code hypothesis.

Harold Gans is a graduate of Yeshiva Gur Aryeh and received a Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude with honors in mathematics from Brooklyn College. He received a Master of Arts degree in mathematics from the Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. For 28 years, Mr. Gans was a Senior Cryptologic Mathematician with the National Security Agency, United States Department of Defense until his retirement in 1996. While there, he received the prestigious Meritorious Civilian Service Award for research, and was … Continue reading →

Eliyahu Rips grew up in Riga, Latvia (then part of Soviet Union). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad. After high school he attend the University of Latvia. In 1969, in a protest against Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Rips attempted self-immolation in a protest against Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. After that, he was incarcerated by Soviet government but, under pressure from Western mathematicians, was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1972. In 1975 he completed his PhD in mathematics at Hebrew … Continue reading →