Tuvia Tenen­bom is an author, jour­nal­ist, drama­tist, and the founder of the Jew­ish The­ater of New York. He stud­ied for his doc­tor­ate in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture at St. John’s Uni­ver­si­ty, earned his MFA in play­writ­ing at CUNY-Brook­lyn, BS in math­e­mat­ics and com­put­er sci­ence at Touro, and fin­ished his rab­bini­cal stud­ies in Jerusalem. He also stud­ied Chris­tian­i­ty and Islam as well as jour­nal­ism, act­ing, theater,and finance.