Rabbi Shmuley Boteach iis host of the award-winning national TV show, Shalom in the Home on TLC. He is also the international best-selling author of 22 books, including his most recent work, The Michael Jackson Tapes (Perseus Books). His book Kosher Sex was an international blockbuster, published in 20 languages, and his recent books on the American family, Parenting With Fire and Ten Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children were both launched on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In 2008, Rabbi Shmuley served as Oprah’s marriage, parenting, and relationships expert on her “Oprah and Friends” national radio network, hosting the daily ‘Rabbi Shmuley Show.’ In 2007, Rabbi Shmuley was labeled “a cultural phenomenon” and “the most famous rabbi in America” by Newsweek magazine, and in 2007, 2008, and 2009 was named as one of the ten most influential rabbis in America. Also in 2007, Rabbi Shmuley was honored by The National Fatherhood Initiative, receiving their most prestigious award for his efforts on Shalom in the Home to promote the importance of a caring father in the contemporary family. Rabbi Shmuley has also been named by Talkers Magazine as one of the hundred most important radio hosts in America.

In 1999, just days before the millennium, Rabbi Shmuley won the highly prestigious "Preacher of the Year" Award from the London Times, setting a record for the most points ever garnered in the competition's history. Rabbi Shmuley also publishes a weekly syndicated column for which, in 2005, he was awarded the American Jewish Press Association's highest award for excellence in commentary.

In 2008, Rabbi Shmuley became one of five finalists for Brandeis University’s ‘Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation’ for his proposal ‘Bringing Judaism Into The Mainstream.’ The proposal is an extension of This World: The Jewish Values Network, the organization he founded and chairs which aims to bring Jewish values to mainstream American culture via the media, politics, and the arts. As part of This World, in 2008 Rabbi Shmuley launched the national family dinner initiative ‘Turn Friday Night Into Family Night,’ which has garnered support from every corner of American society.

Rabbi Shmuley first came to world attention through his founding of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, an organization of Oxford students that within three years of its founding in 1988 had become the second largest student organization in Oxford 's history. At the University, where Rabbi Shmuley served as Rabbi to the students for eleven years, he played host to, and debated, some of the world's leading thinkers, statesmen, and entertainers including Mikhail Gorbachev, Professor Stephen Hawking, Shimon Peres, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elie Wiesel, Yitzchak Shamir, Prof. Richard Dawkins, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Simon Wiesenthal, and Prof. Colin Blakemore, to name but a few.

Hailed by Dennis Prager as 'possessing one of the most fertile minds of our generation,' Rabbi Shmuley has written many best-selling books including Wisdom, Understanding, Kosher Adultery , Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments , Face Your Fear , the critically-acclaimed Judaism for Everyone , The Private Adam , his critique of American celebrity culture , and his review of Oxford history and life, Moses of Oxford , Vols. I & II. His book Why Can't I Fall in Love was a finalist for the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award, and in April 2005 Rabbi Shmuley published Hating Women: America 's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex . In 2007, Rabbi Shmuley published his monumental study of the American masculinity, The Broken American Male and How to Fix Him.

Many of Rabbi Shmuley's books have been serialized in major international publications and have been translated into languages ranging from Japanese, Thai, Czech, Chinese, and Italian, to Dutch, German, Russian, and French.

Rabbi Shmuley is a highly sought-after television and radio guest, having appeared on shows ranging from The Today Show to The View to The O'Reilley Factor to Good Morning America, and nearly everything in between. He was also the subject of a full-length BBC documentary, Moses of Oxford. He has been profiled in many of the world's leading publications, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The London Times, The L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post.

Engaged in such a wide range of endeavors, it is no wonder that Salon.com wrote that "Boteach has his scholarly finger on the pulse of the nation."

Rabbi Shmuley is married to his Australian wife, Debbie, and they have nine children.

His website is www.shmuley.com.

Books by Rabbi Shmuley

The Michael Jackson Tapes (Perseus Books, 2009)
The Blessing of Enough (Sony, 2009)
The Kosher Sutra (HarperOne, 2009)
The Broken American Male, And How to Fix Him (St. Martin’s Press, 2008)
Shalom in the Home (Meredith Books, 2007)
Parenting with Fire: Lighting up the Family With Passion and Inspiration (Penguin Press, 2006)
10 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children (HarperCollins, 2006)
Hating Women: America’s Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex (HarperCollins, 2005)  
Face Your Fear: Living with Courage in an Age of Caution (St. Martin’s Press, 2004)  
The Private Adam: Becoming a Hero in a Selfish Age (HarperCollins, 2003)  
Judaism For Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith (Basic Books, 2002)
Kosher Adultery: Seduce and Sin with your Spouse (Adams Media, 2002)
Why Can’t I Fall in Love?: A 12-Step Program (HarperCollins, 2001)
The Psychic and the Rabbi: A Remarkable Correspondence (Sourcebooks, 2001)
Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments (Broadway, 2000)
Kosher Emotions (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000)
Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy (Doubleday) 1999)
Wrestling with the Divine (Jason Aronson, 1995)
Moses of Oxford: A Jewish Vision of a University and Its Life, Volumes One and Two (Andre Deutsch, 1994)
Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge (Jason Aronson, 1993)
The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb (Jason Aronson, 1993)
Dreams (Bash Publications, 1991)