CONTRIBUTORS

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.

Judith Hauptman - Associate Professor of Talmud , Jewish Theological Seminary ; formerly Visiting Assistant Professor of Talmud , Hebrew Union College , New York . Author of“Images and Women in the Talmud ” and 7he Development of the Talmudic Sugya.

Leonard Kravitz- 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 Meaningo f Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed(1988), C ommentary on the Ethics of the Fathers (1992) with K. Olitzky .

Walter Jacob - Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Chair of the Responsa Committee; President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. Author and editor of twenty books including American Reform Responsa( 1983), Contemporary American Reform Responsa(1987), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah(1988), Questions and Reform Jewish-Answers” New Reform Responsa(1991), The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World(1993).

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