Leonard Kravitz- Professor of Midrash and Homiletics at the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in New York . He has served on the Medical Ethics Committee of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Author of The Esoteric Meaning of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed(1988), Commentary on the Ethics of the Father (1992) with K. Olitzky.

Jacob Z. Lauterbach-(1873-1942), Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College , Cincinnati. Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Editor of Mekhilta deRav Ishmael(1933-49). Contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia .

Mark N. Staitman- Associate Rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , PA . On the faculty of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; serves on the Bio-Medical Institutional Review Board of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is a Visiting Fellow in its Center for Medical Ethics.

Moshe Zemer - Director of the Freehof Institute of Progressive

Halakhah; a founder of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel ; Av Bet Din of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis. Founding Rabbi of Kedem Synagogue-Beit Daniel in Tel Aviv . Author of The Sane Halakhah(1993).