Natan Slifkin
Natan Slifkin נתן סליפקין | |
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Slifkin with a black-and-white ruffed lemur | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 25 June 1975 |
| Alma mater | Bar-Ilan University |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Modern Orthodox |
| Position | Director |
| Organisation | Biblical Museum of Natural History |
| Semikhah | Ohr Somayach |
Natan Slifkin (also Nosson Slifkin) (Hebrew: נתן סליפקין; born 25 June 1975 in Manchester, England), popularly known as the "Zoo Rabbi", is a British-born Israeli Modern Orthodox community rabbi, and the director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Slifkin is best known for his interests in zoology, Judaism's relationship to evolution, Jewish and biblical history, and his writing on these topics.