Contributors

Amy Scheinerman is the hospice rabbi in Howard County , Maryland , and teaches in various venues. She serves on the board of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, is president of the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis, and immediate past president of the Baltimore Board of Rabbis. She is a member of the CCAR Responsa Committee and serves as editor of“Voices,” the Torah commentary column of the CCAR Newsletter.

Michael Stroh is rabbi of Temple Har Zion in Toronto . He has taught Jewish Thought at the School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College , Queens College and Jewish Theology at the University of Waterloo and was a member of the Theology faculty of the University of St. Michael's College , University of Toronto . He is Past President of Arza Canada, and of Arzenu: He was a member of the Zionist General Council of the World Zionist Organization and the Assembly of the Jewish Agency . He is a past

president of the Toronto Board of Rabbis and was chair of the Reform Round Table He has written extensively on Jewish thought and theology.

Mark Washofsky is the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati . He is the chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and Vice-Chair of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. He has published numerous studies in the field of Jewish law, legal theory, and contemporary ethics. He is the editor of Teshuvot for the Nineties(1997), and the author of Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice(2010).