Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth received a B.A. from Yeshiva College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Roth is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and the Samson Raphael Hirsch Professor of Torah and Derekh Eretz at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Science and Religion; The Jewish Idea of Community; Halakha and Politics - The Jewish Idea of a State; and The Jewish Idea of Culture.

In addition to these volumes, a number of his articles have appeared in learned journals.

Rabbi Roth received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yeshiva University. A chair designated "The Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth chair in Talmud and Contemporary Halakha" was established in his honor at Yeshiva University. The present occupant of that chair is Rabbi Mordechai Willig.

Rabbi Roth has served as President of the Rabbinical Council of America, the New York Board of Rabbis and the Religious Zionists of America. He was instrumental in the creation of KIRUV, an organization which does outreach on college campuses.

Rabbi Roth served for several decades as the Rabbi of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, New York.