Taits Pinchas-Mordechai (1908-1996)
| Personal data |
| Surname | Taits |
| Name | Pinchas-Mordechai |
| Birth year | 1908 |
| Birth place | Riga |
| Death year | 1996 |
| Death place | Elizabeth |
| Sex | M |
Taits (Taitz) Pinchas-Mordechai (1908, Riga – 1996, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA) — rabbi.
Pinchas-Mordechai Taits studied at yeshivas in Riga and Slobodka, and in 1931 passed the examination for rabbinic ordination. In 1933, he edited the newspaper Unser Shtime.
From 1934, he lived in the United States, where in 1935 he became head of an Orthodox community in Elizabeth (New Jersey). He delivered lectures on the Talmud on the radio and was a member of the presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada.
He was the author of books on Jewish philosophy, collections of responsa, and commentaries on the Talmud and the Pentateuch.
One of the outstanding religious authorities in the United States, Pinchas-Mordechai Taits devoted considerable attention to the situation of Jews in the USSR in the 1960s–1980s.