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Stephen M. Passamaneck
the Associated American Jewish Museums. Author and editor of twenty six books including American Reform Responsa( 1983), Contemporary American Reform Responsa( 1987), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah( 1988), Questions and Reform Jewish- Answers- New Reform Responsa( 1991), The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World( 1993), Not By Birth Alone, Conversion to Judaism( 1997).
Peter Knobel is Rabbi of Beth Emet, Evanston , Ill; Chair of the Liturgy Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; past Bookreview Editor, Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Editor of Gates of the Season( 1983).
Jacob Z. Lauterbach( 1873-1942) was Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College , Cincinnati. Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Editor of Mekhilta de Rav Ishmael( 1933-49); contributor of the Jewish Encyclopedia .
John Rayner is Lecturer in Liturgy and Codes at the Leo Baeck College, London ; rabbi emeritus of the Liberal Synagogue in London . He is the author of Understanding Judaism( 1996), A Jewish Understanding of the World( 1997), Jewish Religious Law: A Progressive Perspective( 1999), and many essays.
Michael Rosen is a businessman involved in technology and the financial markets. He is president of T1Xpert.com, a company developing financial service systems for the financial industry. He has an M.A. in Religious Studies , is married to Rabbi Karen L. Fox.
Richard Rosenthal( 1929-1998) was rabbi in Tacoma , Washington for forty- one years and combined his rabbinate with teaching at the Uni versity of Puget Sound , civic activities and a regular newspaper column. Past president of the Pacific Rabbinic Conference, he published a number of essays on minhag.
Moshe Zemer is Director of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah; a founder of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel ; founding rabbi of the Kedem Synagogue- Bet Daniel, Tel Aviv . Av Bet Din of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis, Senior Lecturer in Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College , Jerusalem . Contributor of numerous articles on halakhah in the Israeli press and scientific journals; author of The Sane Halakhah[ Hebrew ],( 1993) which has recently appeared in German and English translations.