Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal is an author and lecturer living in Jerusalem. He is a past president of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies – the academic and educational center of Masorti Judaism in Israel – and Melitz, the Center for Jewish and Zionist Education. Earlier in his career, he served as the director of the Ramah Programs in Israel.

He was at one-time chairperson of the Masorti movement in Israel and a member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization. He is presently the chairperson of the Directorate of the Meimad (political) party in Israel and serves on the boards and steering committees of several nonprofit educational organizations.

Rabbi Segal was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1969 and served as a pulpit rabbi in Palo Alto, California. He moved to Israel in 1973 and lives in Jerusalem with his wife Judy. The Segals have five children and fifteen grandchildren.