228 Contributors
President Associated American Jewish Museums. He is the author and editor of thirty -one books, including Christianity through Jewish Eyes(1974), American Reform Responsa(1983), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah(1988), Questions and Reform Jewish Answers(1991), The Healing Past: Pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic World(1993), Not by Birth Alone: Conversion to Judaism(1997), Reexamining Progressive Halakhah(2002), Die Exegese hat das Erste Wort(2002), Th Environment in Jewish Law(2003)
Louis JACOBS is a leading British rabbi and theologian and founder of the New West End Synagogue in London . He currently lectures at University College in London and at Lancaster University ; he has taught at Jews’ College. He is the author of numerous essays and more than twenty books, including Studies in Talmudic Logic and Methodology(1961), Faith(1968), A Jewish Theology(1973), Teyku— The Unsolved Problem in the Babylonian Talmud(1981), and The Talmudic Argument (1984).
PETER KNOBEL is rabbi of Beth Emet, Evanston , Illinois . He is chair of the Liturgy Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and past president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis. He is the author of papers on assisted suicide, homosexuality, and spirituality among other subjects; he is editor of Gates of the Season(1983), Duties of the Soul: The Role of Commandments in Liberal Judaism (1999), and the new American Reform prayer book
JoHN RAYNER is Distinguished Lecturer in Liturgy and Codes at the Leo Baeck College, London , and rabbi emeritus of the Liberal Synagogue in London . He is the author of Understanding Judaism(1996), A Jewish Understanding of the World (1997), Jewish Religious Law: A Progressive Perspective(1999), and many essays. He has been a major contributor to the creation of British and American liturgies.
DANIEL SCHIFF is the Community Scholar of the Jewish Education Institute in Pittsburgh . He is rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in White Oak, Pennsylvania . Born in Australia , he was educated at the University of Melbourne and the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion from which he was ordained and received his doctorate. Daniel Schiff is the author of essays in halakhic books and journals and of Abortion in Judaism(2002), a study that deals with this question across denominational lines.
MARK WASHOFSKY is Associate Professor of Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College— Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati , Ohio and chair of the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He has published numerous studies in the field of Jewish law and legal theory. He is the editor of Teshuvot for the Nineties(1997), and author of Jewish Living and Practice(2000).