Rabbi Dr. Israel Schorr (1906 - 2000) born in what is now part of western Ukraine, was an Orthodox rabbi in the United States. In 1927, he emigrated to the United States where he learned English and went on to study English literature at Columbia, eventually receiving there his Ph.D. From 1938 onward, he served as rabbi of Congregation Beth El-Young Israel in Brooklyn. His obituary in the New York Times notes that "He strongly advocated the interweaving of strict Orthodox learning with contemporary humanist thought." He went on to be recognized as what one American Jewish publication called 'a staggering scholar,' and he studied with Rabbi Meir Arak and other prominent rabbis in Eastern Europe. He was also a past president of the Hapoel Hamizrachi, a Zionist organization, and the Vaad Harabonim of Brooklyn.