Broyde’s areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, family law, and comparative religious law. At Emory, he has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Profession, Family Law (I and II), Jewish Law, Federal Courts, Bankruptcy, and Secured Credit. Broyde is an ordained rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin) from Yeshiva University in New York. He was a member and a director (chaver and dayan) of Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America. In 2012, he was considered as a candidate for the post of Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. In Atlanta, Broyde founded a Young Israel synagogue and the Atlanta Torah MiTzion Kollel study program, where he was a religious leader (Rosh Kollel). He served on the boards of schools and various organizations. For over fifteen years, he sat as the chair of the medical ethics committee of the Weinstein Hospice.
During the fall of 2019, Broyde was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturing in Israel and around Europe. In 2018 and 2018, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw Law School in Poland and at the Interdisciplinary College of Law in Herzliya, Israel.
Broyde earned his juris doctor from New York University School of Law. During his time at New York University, he published a note on its Law Review. He clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Broyde married labor lawyer Channah, who works in the United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor. They have four children (Joshua, Aaron, Rachel, and Deborah) and three grandchildren as of 2020.
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