CONTRIBUTORS

David Ellenson is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and I. H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles , California on whose faculty he has been since 1979. He is the author of numerous essays on Jewish thought and has contributed to a multi-volume commentary on the prayer book. His books include 7radition in Transition(1989), Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy(1990), Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics of Modern Jewish Religion and Identity(1994) After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity(2004), Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice(2007).

Walter Jacob is President of the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin/Potsdam ; Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and the Associated American Jewish Museums. Author, editor, or translator of thirty-six books including Christianity through Jewish Eyes (1974), American Reform Responsa(1983), The Pittsburgh Platform in Retrospect(1985), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah(1988), The Second Book of the Bible: Exodus Interpreted by Benno Jacob (1992), Die Exegese hat das erste Wort(2002), Pursuing Peace Across the Alleghenies(2005), Hesed and Tzedakah- From the Bible to Modernity(2006).

Ferenc Raj is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth El in Berkeley , California . He is a graduate of the Hungarian Jewish Theological Seminary with a PhD. from Brandeis University . He continues to be actively involved in the Reform movement in Hungary . He is currently engaged in research on Hungarian Jewry.

Mark Washofsky is the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law, Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati , Ohio . Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He has published numerous studies in the field of Jewish law and legal theory. He is the editor of Teshuvot for the Nineties(1997), and author of Jewish Living and Practice(2000).