Rabbi Yehoshua Mizrachi was born in Lakewood, NJ. He received semicha from Yeshivat Pirchei Shoshanim /HaRav Doniel Chanen, shlit”a of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. He has served several pulpits, including the last non-Chassidic shul in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. He is a prolific writer, have written for Arutz Sheva and many other media outlets, and wrote a Torah commentary blog entitled Torah Over Easy, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. He has also written a book entitled Holistic Judaism.