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Ruth Langer is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Boston College and Associate Director of its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning . She received her Ph.D. in 1994 and her rabbinic ordination in 1986, both from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati . Her research focuses on Jewish liturgy and Jewish —Christian relations. Along with numerous monographs, her books include To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism, Cincinnati (1998); Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer, ed. Ruth Langer and Steven Fine , Winona Lake, Indiana (2005).