CONTRIBUTORS
Rachel Adler is Joint Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Gender at the School of Religion, University of Southern California and the Rabbinical School , Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion , Los Angeles . She is the author of Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics(1998) which won the 1999 National Jewish Book Award in Jewish thought. She is the author of numerous articles.
Elliot N. Dorff is Rector and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles . He has been a member of the Committee on Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative ) since 1985 and currently serves as Vice Chair. He is the author of A Living Tree, the Roots and Growth of Jewish Law(1988) along with numerous other studies.
David Ellenson is LH. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion , Los Angeles . The author of Tradition in Transition(1989), Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of Modern Jewish Orthodoxy(1990), and more than one hunnson is currently completing a book
dred fifty articles and reviews, Elle rsion in the modern world.
length study of Orthodox responsa on conve Solomon B. Freehof (1893-1990) was Rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsbu rgh, Pennsylvania ; President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the World Union for Progressive Judaism ; Chair Central Conference of American Rabf responsa including Today's Reform wish Practice(1947, 1952), The Responsa (1963) and fifteen other books.
of the Responsa Committee of the bis. Author of eight volumes© Responsa(1990), as well as Reform Je Literature(1955), A Treasury of Responsa Walter Jacob is Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pitts burgh , Pennsylvania ; President of the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin / Potsdam , Past President of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis, President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and