CONTRIBUTORS
PuiLip J. BENTLEY is rabbi of Temple Sholom in Floral Park, New York . He has written other essays in the area of ecology and in other fields.
LYNN Bry is M.D./Ph.D. student in molecular microbiology in Israel ; she has written on environmental concerns in The Environmental Magazine and elsewhere.
SoromonN B. FreeHOF(1893-1990), served as rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the World Union for Progressive Judaism ; and Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and of the Commission on Jewish Education of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. He was author of eight volumes of responsa, including Today's Reform Responsa(1990), Preface to Scripture (1950), Reform Jewish Practice(1947, 1952), The Responsa Literature (1955), A Treasury of Responsa(1963), and many other books.
WALTER JacoB is Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . He is President of the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin/Potsdam , past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, President of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, and President of the Associated American Jewish Museums. He is the author and editor of twenty-nine books, including Contemporary American Reform Responsa(1987), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah(1988), The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World(1993), Not