Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair

Senior Rabbinic Scholar, Hazon  

Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair serves as Senior Rabbinic Scholar at Hazon, the leading US Jewish environmental organization. From 2011-16 he was Vice President for Research and Senior Economist at Energiya Global, a Jerusalem-based solar energy company focused on Africa, and he continues to consult for renewable energy and climate resilience projects. Yedidya was previously Campus Rabbi at Cambridge University where he also taught in the Divinity School. In 2014 he published together with Hazon, a translation of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's great work on shmitta, the Sabbatical year, "Introduction to Shabbat Ha'aretz." Trained as an economist, Yedidya holds a BA from Oxford University, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and lives with his family in Jerusalem.