CONTRIBUTORS
Israel Bettan(1889-1957) was professor of Midrash and Homiletics at the Hebrew Union College , Cincinnati , Ohio . President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Chair of its Responsa Committee. Author of Studies in Jewish Preaching in the Middle A ges(1939), The Five Scrolls(1950).
Solomon B. Freehof (1893-1990) was rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the World Union for Progressive Judaism ; he was past Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the author of twenty-six books including eight volumes of responsa, Stormers of Heaven( 1931), Modern Jewish Preaching(1941), Preface to Scripture(1950), Reform Jewish Practice (1947, 1952), The Responsa Literature(1955), The Book of Job (1958), A Treasury of Responsa(1963), New Reform Responsa(1980), Today's Reform Responsa(1990).
Alyssa Gray is assistant professor of Codes and Responsa Literature at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York . She is the author of A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of the Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah(2005) and a series of essays and major studies.
Alexander Guttmann(1900-1994) was professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College and the Lehranstalt fiir die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin.. He was the author of Rabbinic Judaism in the Making (1970), Studies in Rabbinic Judaism(1976), and The Struggle over Reform in Rabbinic Literature(1977).
Leonard Kravitz is 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 Philanthropies. Author of The Esoteric Meaning of Maimonides’ Guide Jor the Perplexed (1988), Commentary on the Ethics of the Fathers (1992) with K. Olitzky .