Teitz Pinchas M. (1908–1995) — rabbi, religious and public figure.

Pinchas Teitz was born in Latvia into the family of a rabbi. He studied in rabbinical seminaries in Lithuania. In 1933, he emigrated to the United States and married the daughter of a rabbi in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After his father-in-law’s death, he succeeded him in his position.

In 1941, he founded the Jewish Educational Center, making Elizabeth one of the first cities in the United States to offer comprehensive Jewish and secular education. The center included a yeshiva, a high school for boys, and a high school for girls, serving about 900 students.

In 1953, he launched a weekly “Talmudic Seminar on the Radio,” which reached an audience of approximately 200,000 listeners. In 1956, he was elected head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. He also established a kosher kitchen at Princeton University.

In 1964, Pinchas Teitz made the first of 22 trips to the Soviet Union, where he worked to support religious Jews.