CONTRIBUTORS

JACK COHEN has served on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary , the Reconstructionist Rabbinic College, and the David Yellin College of Education as well as Rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. He is the author of seven books, among them A Case for Religious Naturalism(1954), Jewish Education in a Democratic Society(1964), Guides for an Age of Confusion(1999), and Major Philosophies of Jewish Prayer in the Twentieth Century(2000). He and his wife reside in Israel .

JONATHAN COHEN is an Israeli -born scholar who directs the Center for the Study of Contemporary Moral Problems at the Hebrew Union College and as assistant professor of Talmud and Halakhic literature. He holds degrees from the University of Kent and the University of Liverpool . He has written on Jewish law and ethics.

Davip ELLENSON is President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and I. H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion , Los Angeles , California , on whose faculty he has been since 1979. He is the author of several hundred essays on Jewish thought and has contributed to a multi-volume commentary on the prayer

book. His books include Tradition in Transition(1989), Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy(1 990), and Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics of Modern Jewish Religion and Identity(1994).

DAVID GOLINKIN is the President of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem where he also served as professor of Jewish law. He is the long-time chair of the Vaad Halakhah of the Rabbinic Assembly of Israel . He is the author or editor of eighteen books, including Responsa of the Va'ad Halakhah(1990), Halakhah for Our Time: A Conservative Approach(1992), The Responsa of Louis Ginzberg (1996), Rediscovering the Art of Jewish Prayer, The Status of Women in Jewish Law (1998).

PETER HAAS holds the Abba Hillel Silver Chair of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , previously he has held a professorship at Vanderbilt University . He is the author of Morality After A uschwitz(1988), Recovering the Role of Women: Power and Authority in Rabbinic Jewish Society(1992), and Responsa: A Literary History of the Genre(1996).

WALTER JACOB is Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . He is President and a professor at the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin/Potsdam , Past President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, President of the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, and of the