Contributors
- Contributors
Zev Eleff is a Wexner Fellow-Davidson Scholar completing graduate studies at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of Living From Convention to Convention: A History of the NCSY, 1954-1980 (2009); and the editor of Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (2008). He currently serves as the William Fischman Rabbinic Intern at The Jewish Center in Manhattan.
Cass Fisher received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2005. He is an Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of South Florida. His work focuses on philosophical aspects of Jewish theological language in rabbinic Judaism and modern Jewish thought. He is the author of "Beyond the Homiletical: Rabbinic Theology as Discursive and Reflective Practice" (2010); and Contemplative Nation: A Philosophical Account of Jewish Theological Language (forthcoming).
Gil Graff holds a JD and PhD from UCLA. He serves as Executive Director of the Board of Jewish Education in Los Angeles and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish History at American Jewish University. He has authored two books and numerous articles focusing on the encounter of Jews and Judaism with modernity.
Michael A. Grodin, MD, is Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at Boston University. He is also a Professor of Bioethics, Human Rights, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry. He has been named one of America's Top Physicians and has received a national Humanism in Medicine Award. Professor Grodin teaches "Jewish Bioethics" and Holocaust Studies, and is the author of over 200 articles and the editor or co-editor of 5 books in the fields of Holocaust studies, bioethics, health, and human rights.
Ken Koltun-Fromm is Professor of Religion at Haverford College and author of Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity (2001); Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaism (2006); and Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America (2010).
David Resnick is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Bar Ilan University. He studies the cultural contexts of Jewish education, most recently in the Hollywood film "Keeping Up with the [End Page 251] Steins," which is shortly to appear in Religious Education. He also writes on philosophical issues in contemporary Jewish education.
Yehuda Turetsky is a fellow at the Israel Henry Beren Institute for Higher Talmudic Studies at Yeshiva University. He is also completing an MS degree from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University.
Chaim I. Waxman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a former president of the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry. His books include America's Jews in Transition (1983); American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (1989); and Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (2001), among others. [End Page 252]
