CONTRIBUTORS

Lisa J. Grushcow is the senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El Beth Shalom in Montreal . A graduate of McGill University , a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where she earned a master and doctoral degree, followed by ordination at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2003. She is the author of Writing the Wayward Wife: Rabbinic Interpretations of Sotah and contributed to The Torah: A Women’s Commentary. She is the editor of The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality(2014).

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 Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Author, editor, or translator of numerous essays and forty-three 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), The Environment in Jewish Law(2003), Gardening from the Bible to North America (2003), Pursuing Peace Across the Alleghenies(2005), Hesed and Tzedakah— From the Bible to Modernity(2006), War and Terrorism in Jewish Law(2010), Benno Jacob , Fighter and Scholar(2011), Medical Frontier and Jewish Law(2012).

Jason Rosenberg is the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Am in Tampa , Florida . After majoring in computer science at Brown University , he was a software engineer before studying for the rabbinate. He 1s a past chair of the Tampa Rabbinical Association, served on the board of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Hillel School of Tampa , and is currently on the board of the Tampa Jewish Federation.