Rabbi Prof. Yitzhak Kraus is the Head of the Midrasha for Women at The Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies in Bar-Ilan University. He served as Deputy-Head of the Midrasha since 1994. He was the head of the Jewish Thought Program at Orot College in Elkana, and previously lectured in Bar-Ilan’s Basic Jewish Studies program.

Rabbi Prof. Kraus obtained his Ph.D. degree in philosophy from Bar-Ilan University. He also holds Semicha (rabbinical ordination) after studying in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavne (in the framework of the Hesder program) and Ateret Kohanim for twelve years. Rabbi Kraus is the Rabbi of the "Shira Hadasha" congregation in Givhat Shmuel.

Rabbi Prof. Kraus is the author of the famous book "The Seventh – Messianism in the Last Generation of Habad" (2009) He organized a conference on the “Habad movement in the 20th Century” at Bar-Ilan University in January 2002, and has co-edited a book on that subject. His book about Habad movement in the 20th century will appear soon. He has also published scholarly articles on the radical doctrine of the Satmar Hasidim, and on the theological response to the Balfour Declaration.