About Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach, is the host of the National TV show 'Shalom in the Home' airing on TLC (The Learning Channel), and the international best-selling author of 18 books. His latest book, ‘Shalom in the Home,’ based on the hit television series, was released by Meredith Books in March of 2007. His two most recent parenting book, “Ten Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children,” and “Parenting with Fire,” were both featured on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.’
Rabbi Shmuley was named “a cultural phenomenon” and “the most famous rabbi in America” according to Newsweek’s 2006 list of The Top 50 Rabbis. He was also named as one of the top-ten most influential rabbi’s in the world. In April of 2007, Rabbi Shmuley was honored by The National Fatherhood Initiative, receiving their most prestigious award for his efforts on ‘Shalom in the Home’ to promote the importance of a caring father in the contemporary family. Rabbi Shmuley was also named by Talkers Magazine as one of the hundred most important radio hosts in America. A winner of the London Times highly prestigious "Preacher of the Year" award, Rabbi Shmuley has lectured and appeared in print, radio, and TV all over the globe. He is an acclaimed syndicated columnist who in 2005 won the American Jewish Press Association's highest award for excellence in commentary.
Rabbi Shmuley first came to world attention through his founding of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, an organization of Oxford students that within three years of its founding in 1988 had become the second largest student organization in Oxford's history. In Oxford , where Rabbi Shmuley served as Rabbi to the students for eleven years, he played host to, and debated, some of the world's leading thinkers, statesmen, and entertainers including Mikhail Gorbachev, Professor Stephen Hawking, Shimon Peres, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elie Wiesel, Christopher Hitchens, Yitzchak Shamir, Prof. Richard Dawkins, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Simon Wiesenthal, Michael Jackson, and Prof. Colin Blakemore, to name but a few.
Hailed by Dennis Prager as 'possessing one of the most fertile minds of our generation,' Rabbi Shmuley has written many best-selling books including Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, Kosher Sex , Kosher Adultery, Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments, Face Your Fear, the critically-acclaimed Judaism for Everyone, The Private Adam, his critique of American celebrity culture , and his review of Oxford history and life, Moses of Oxford, Vols. I & II. His book Why Can't I Fall in Love was a finalist for the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award, and in April 2005 Rabbi Shmuley published Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex. Many of Rabbi Shmuley's books have been serialized in major international publications and have been translated into seventeen languages, including Japanese, Thai, Czech, Chinese, Italian, Dutch, German, Russian, and French.
Rabbi Shmuley is one of the country's most sought after television and radio guests, having appeared on shows ranging from The Today Show to The View to The O'Reilley Factor, to Good Morning America , Scarborough Country, and nearly everything in between. He was also the subject of a full-length BBC documentary, Moses of Oxford. He has been profiled in many of the world's leading publications, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The London Times, The L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post.
Rabbi Shmuley's twice-weekly columns appear in the Jerusalem Post, the New York Sun, WorldNetDaily.com, Insight Magazine, and Beliefnet. In 2001, Jewsweek.com placed Rabbi Shmuley at number 17 on their annual list of the 50 most influential Jews in America.
One of the world's most acclaimed public speakers, in December 1999 Rabbi Shmuley became the first ever non-Christian to win the highly prestigious London Times Preacher of the Year Award, setting a record for the most points ever garnered in the competition's history.
The wide range of endeavors and interests Rabbi Shmuley engages in has brought him critical praise from various media outlets such as salon.com which wrote that, "Boteach has his scholarly finger on the pulse of the nation."
Rabbi Shmuley is married to his Australian wife, Debbie, and they have eight children.