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==Notable people== <!--Keep this list alphabetical by surname.--> * [[Shalom Auslander]] (born 1970), author of ''Foreskin's Lament'', which covers his time growing up in Monsey<ref>McGrath, Charles. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/arts/02iht-lament.1.7715996.html "Shalom Auslander: An Orthodox Jewish outsider grapples with his past"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 3, 2007. Accessed May 9, 2016. "MONSEY, New York β Shalom Auslander ends ''Foreskin's Lament,'' his memoir of growing up in, and eventually breaking away from, the Orthodox Jewish community here, not with an acknowledgments page but with a list of people God might consider punishing instead of the author's family."</ref> * [[Julia Haart]] (born 1971), fashion designer and entrepreneur * [[Mordechai Hager]] (1922β2018), [[rebbe]] of the [[Hasidic]] sect of [[Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)|Vizhnitz]] * [[Steven Hill]] (died 2016), actor, ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'', ''[[Law & Order]]'' * [[Yaakov Kamenetsky]] (died 1986), rabbi who lived in Monsey from 1967 until his death. * [[Yosef Mizrachi]] (born 1968), [[kiruv]] rabbi<ref>Rosenberg, David (November 4, 2016) [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210702 "War of the 'Kiruv' Rabbis Escalates"], ''Israel National News''</ref> *[[Michael Rogers (blogger)|Michael Rogers]], publisher, journalist, fundraiser, activist * [[Mordechai Shapiro]] (born 1989), singer<ref name="Mishpacha">{{cite news |last1=Besser |first1=Yisroel |title=We Can All Sing |url=https://mishpacha.com/we-can-all-sing/ |access-date=9 June 2020 |work=Mishpacha Magazine |date=12 March 2019}}</ref> * [[Tovia Singer]] (born 1960), counter-missionary radio host, author and speaker<ref>Hoggman, Allison. [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/23483/con-game "Con Game"], ''[[Tablet (magazine)]]'', January 13, 2010. Accessed May 9, 2016. "Aguiar said Kaplan introduced him to Tropper in 2003, after he had already begun studying Judaism with another Monsey rabbi, Tovia Singer, who specializes in reaching out to evangelical Christians who, like Aguiar, were born Jewish, and getting them to 'return' to Judaism."</ref> * [[Charlotte Thompson (actress)|Charlotte Thompson]] (1843β1898), actress * [[Leib Tropper]] (born 1950), founding rabbi of the [[Kol Yaakov Torah Center]]<ref>Nathan-Kazis, Josh. [http://forward.com/news/207652/rabbis-barry-freundel-and-leib-tropper-ensnared-in/ "Rabbis Barry Freundel and Leib Tropper Ensnared in Scandals Tied to Conversions"], ''[[The Forward]]'', October 21, 2014. Accessed May 9, 2016. "The Tropper scandal centered in Monsey, New York, an ultra-Orthodox enclave far from Freundel's cosmopolitan Washington, D.C. congregation that includes beltway Jewish royalty like U.S. Treasury Secretary [[Jack Lew]], former senator Joe Lieberman and Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic's longtime culture and arts editor."</ref> * [[Andrew Carpenter Wheeler]] (1835β1903), prominent theatrical reviewer, editor, author
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