Rabbi Dr. William Friedman is part of the Pardes North America faculty.

He is the Senior Educator of Base Lincoln Park and a doctoral candidate in Ancient Judaism at Harvard University, where his research explores legal reasoning in rabbinic law.

He received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes, former director and Rosh Yeshiva of the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies, and holds an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. With a passion for deep and accessible Jewish learning, William has studied and taught at institutions including Pardes, the Conservative Yeshiva, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Jewish Theological Seminary, Academy for Jewish Religion, and Hebrew College.

In addition to his role at Base, William is a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

He lives in Chicago, IL, with his spouse, Rabbi Sarah Mulhern, and their two children.