CONTRIBUTORS

A Stanley Dreyfus, Lecturer on Commentaries at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion , New York . A former congregational rabbi and military chaplain, he served as Director of the Rabbinical Placement Commission from 1979- 1991; Chairman of the Liturgy Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis during the preparation of new prayer books for the American Reform Judaism.

Solomon B. Freehof (1893-1990), Rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the World Union for Progressive Judaism ; Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Author of eight volumes of responsa including Today's Reform Responsa(1990), as well as Reform Jewish Practice (1947, 1952), The Responsa Literature(1955), A Treasury of Responsa(1963) and many other books.

Peter J. Haas , Professor of Religious Studies , Vanderbilt University ; he has focused his research and writing on Jewish ethics and the relation of science to religious thought. Author of Morality after Auschwitz (1988), Recovering the Role of Women: Power and Authority in Rabbinic Jewish Society(1992), Responsa: Literary History of a Genre(1996), and other books and numerous essays.

Walter Jacob , Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, past Chair of the Responsa Committee; President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and the Associated American Jewish Museums. Author and editor of twenty two books including American Reform Responsa(1983), Contemporary

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