CONTRIBUTORS

David Ellenson- ILA. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles as well as visiting Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles . He has published Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy , Halakhah , and Boundaries of Modern Jewish Identity, and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of Modern Jewish Orthodoxy . Between Tradition and Culture is scheduled for publication in 1994.

Solomon B. Freehof -(1893-1990), Rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, 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).

Walter Jacob- Rabbi of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh ,

Immediate past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. Author and editor of fourteen 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).

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Richard Rosenthal- Rabbi, Temple Beth El, Ta et Sound. He has

and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pug written essays on Jewish law.

Mark Washofsky- Associate Professor of Rabbinics- Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati . His pe include studies on the development of halakhic thought in me 4 and modern times. He currently serves as Vice Chair ty e Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

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