CONTRIBUTORS

Walter Jacob is President of the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin/Potsdam ; Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Author, editor, or translator of forty books including Christianity through Jewish Eyes(1974), American Reform Responsa(1983), Contemporary American Reform Responsa(1987), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah(1988), The Second Book of the Bible: Exodus Interpreted by Benno Jacob (1992), Die Exegese hat das erste Wort(2002), The Environment in Jewish Law(2003), Pursuing Peace Across the Alleghenies(2005), Hesed and Tzedakah— From the Bible to Modernity(2006), War and Terrorism in Jewish Law(2010), Benno Jacob , Kdampfer und Gelehrter(2011).

Audrey Korotkin is the rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Altoona , Pennsylvania . She is a Ph.D. Candidate in rabbinic literature and thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion , Cincinnati , Ohio , from which she was ordained in 1999.

Jonah Sievers is the Rabbi of Braunschweig , Germany , President of the Allgemeine Rabbinerkonferenz of Germany , European Chair of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, editor of the Jewish Prayer book for Shabbat and Weekdays(2009), editor of the Jewish Prayer book for Pesach , Shevuot , and Sukkot (2011).

Mark Washofsky is the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law, Hebrew Union College— Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati , Ohio ; Chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; Vice-Chair of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakkah. 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 author of Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice(2010).