Contributors to This Issue
Nancy E. Berg is associate professor of Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis and most recently author of Equal and More Equal: The Literary Works of Sami Michael (Lexington, 2004).
Eric Caplan is assistant professor of modern Judaism and Director of the Jewish Teacher Training Program at McGill University. He is the author of From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism (Hebrew Union College Press, 2002).
Bernard Dov Cooperman currently holds the Lewis L. Kaplan Chair of Jewish History at the University of Maryland.
Deborah Fox is an attorney and writer with an interest in Holocaust and genocide studies. She has taken graduate courses at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Dana Kaplan is widely published in the field of Jewish studies and history, and has also taught in these fields at various institutions including the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Scott Langston has taught biblical studies at various institutions including Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO and Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth, TX, as well as published and made numerous professional presentations in the fields of biblical studies and Jewish-Christian relations.
Hal M. Lewis is the dean of continuing education and associate professor of contemporary Jewish studies at Spertus College in Chicago. He is the author of Models and Meanings in the History of Jewish Leadership (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004) and the forthcoming From the Sanctuary to the Boardroom: On
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Being a Jewish Leader (Rowman and Littlefield). His articles on Jewish communal leadership have appeared in Sh'ma, The Jerusalem Post and the Journal of Jewish Communal Service. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in the American Jewish community, including having served as the president and chief executive officer of the Columbus, Ohio Jewish Federation.
Michelle Mart is an associate professor of history at Penn State University, Berks campus, and the author of Eye on Israel: How America Came to View Israel as an Ally (SUNY, 2006) as well as articles in journals such as Diplomatic History, Modern Judaism, and Religion and American Culture.
Andrew Schoenfeld is currently an orthopedic surgery resident in Ohio. Although his career is in medicine, he holds a degree in history from Kent State University, where he studied under the auspices of Victor Papacosma, George Vourlogianis, and Saul Friedman. He has written various historical papers, some of which have been published in journals such as The Journal of the Hellenic Literature Society.
