Contributors
- Contributors
Wayne Allen is an ordained rabbi who also holds a PhD in Philosophy from York University, Toronto. He has published two books on Jewish law. He serves as the Provost of the Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School and lectures on Jewish and Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Robert Eisen is Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of three books, the latest of which is The Peace and Violence of Judaism: From the Bible to Modern Zionism (2011).
Alan Jotkowitz is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a Senior Physician at Soroka University Medical Center both in Beersheva, Israel. He has published widely in the fields of medical ethics and Jewish thought.
Alex Sztuden has been an Instructor in philosophy at Fordham University, where he received his MA and was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship. He received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. His publications on the thought of Soloveitchik include articles on the relationship between outer act and inner feeling and on the role of stories in Halakhic Man. He was an invited speaker at the Yeshiva University/Bar-Ilan University International Conference: Reflections on the Thought and Scholarship of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Stephen J. Whitfield holds the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1972. He is the author of American Space, Jewish Time (1988), In Search of American Jewish Culture (1999, paperback 2001), and editor of A Companion to 20th-Century America (2004), among other works. He has served as a visiting professor of American Studies at the Sorbonne (1994, 1998), and as a visiting professor of Jewish studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (2004). [End Page 99]
