Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, has devoted more than 25 years to building bridges of understanding between Christians and Jews and broad support for the State of Israel. He is an expert in Jewish life and custom and the world’s leading Jewish authority on evangelical Christians.

Rabbi Eckstein received Orthodox Rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University in New York, and his master's degrees from Yeshiva University and Columbia University. An internationally recognized Bible teacher, he has served on the faculties of Columbia University, Chicago Theological Seminary, and Northern Baptist Seminary.

In 1983, Rabbi Eckstein established The Fellowship to help Christians and Jews work together on projects promoting the safety and security of Jews in Israel and around the world. In recent years, The Fellowship has provided more than $100 million to programs helping Jews immigrate to Israel from the former Soviet Union, Argentina, Ethiopia, and other troubled countries, fighting poverty in Israel, and helping poor elderly Jews and orphans in the former Soviet Union.