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119 Editors and Contributors Editors Elliot N. Dorff, rabbi (Jewish Theological Seminary), Ph.D. (Columbia University), is rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in Los Angeles. Among his 14 books are three award-winning Jewish Publication Society books on Jewish ethics. He and Louis Newman are co-editors of Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (1995) and Contemporary Jewish Theology (1999). Since 1984 Dorff has served on the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, currently as its chair. He also has served on several federal government advisory commissions dealing with the ethics of health care, sexual responsibility, and research on human subjects; he currently is a member of California’s Ethics Committee on embryonic stem cell research. Louis E. Newman, Ph.D. (Brown University), is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and director of Judaic Studies at Carleton College. He is the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (1998) and An Introduction to Jewish Ethics (2005) as well as co-editor with Elliot Dorff of two anthologies (see above). He is currently working on a book on Jewish views of repentance. Contributors Aaron Alexander, rabbi, is currently the Assistant Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University where he was ordained, earned his master’s in rabbinic studies, and currently teaches Practical Halakhah and Codes. Rabbi Alexander received his B.A. in religion from the University of Florida, spent two years studying at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and also spent a year doing graduate work in Talmud and rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. James S. Diamond, rabbi, teaches in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. He has written on modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Hillel was the focus of his rabbinical career, and his experience with students and teachers is the primary source of his essay here. Steven Edelman-Blank, rabbi, received his rabbinic ordination and master’s in rabbinic studies from the American Jewish University’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He holds a B.A. in social studies from Harvard University. 120 Aaron J. Feingold, M.D., is president and senior physician of Raritan Bay Cardiology in Edison, New Jersey. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is director of the cardiology division at JFK Medical Center (in Edison) as well as medical director of the Central Jersey Jewish Home for the Aged. He is the current president of The American Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth and a member of the board of trustees of the American Physician Fellowship for Medicine in Israel. Aaron Feuerstein is the third-generation owner and CEO of Malden Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. When the Malden Mills factory burned down in 1995, he continued to pay all his employees their salaries and benefits while the mill was being rebuilt. His devotion to the highest standards of business ethics earned him much notoriety, including a segment on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Laura Geller is the senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, California. Before being chosen for this position in 1994, she served as the executive director of the American Jewish Congress, Pacific Southwest Region. She came to AJCongress in 1990 after 14 years as the director of Hillel at the University of Southern California. She has published numerous articles and chapters examining gender issues within Judaism. She graduated from Brown University in 1971 and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College in 1976. Marc Graboff is president at NBC Universal Television, West Coast, overseeing all business, financial, operational, and administrative matters for NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio. He graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in communications studies and graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School in 1983. Daniel Held is a teacher and the director of student activities at the Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto and a graduate student at York University. His experience as an educator bridges the formal and informal in summer programs, youth movements, Hebrew schools, and day schools. Elizabeth Holtzman is the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, where she won national acclaim for her work on the House impeachment panel on President Nixon and for her questioning of President Ford on the Nixon pardon . She was the first member of Congress to...

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