Tzvi (Zvi Paltiel) Berkowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and Maggid Shiur (lecturer) at Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Ner Israel Rabbinical College), Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, and teaches the highest-level Talmud shiur (lecture).

Born in San Francisco to Holocaust survivors of Gerrer Hasidic descent, he went to study at Ner Israel Yeshiva at a young age. He married Ettil Kamenetsky, daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky.

Berkowitz is also on the faculty of Ohr Nissan Talmud Center for the religious education of Iranian Jews under the auspices of the Ner Israel yeshiva.^[1]