Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, is author of Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition, and is editor of Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Spiritual Perspectives on Judaism and Health. He has published widely on health and healing. He is former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and professor of modern Hebrew literature and the Steinberg Professor of Human Relations at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. Rachel Adler, PhD, is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. She is the author of Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics and many articles on feminist approaches to Jewish theology and Halacha. Arnold Eisen, PhD, is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University and chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the area of modern Jewish thought and practice and has long worked with synagogues and federations around the country in the effort to revitalize Jewish communities and find new meaning for Jewish texts and observances. Currently he is at work on a book entitled Rethinking Zionism. Eisen is married to Adriane Leveen, another contributor to this volume, and is the father of Shulie (twenty) and Nathaniel (seventeen). Tamara Eskenazi, PhD, is professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She is a reknowned popular lecturer and publishes her scholarly work in numerous journals and periodicals. She is currently working on a women's commentary to the Torah and has conducted some of her most important research on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Eitan Fishbane, PhD, a frequent scholar-in-residence and guest speaker at congregations across North America, is assistant professor of Jewish thought at The Jewish Theological Seminary; author of As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford University Press); and co-editor of Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections (Jewish Lights). Eitan Fishbane is available to speak on the following topics: Shabbat Prayer Spirituality God and Theology Mysticism Ethics Torah Arthur Green, PhD, is recognized as one of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. He is the Irving Brudnick professor of philosophy and religion at Hebrew College and rector of the Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004. Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as dean and president. Dr. Green is author of several books including Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer; and Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (all Jewish Lights). He is also author of Radical Judaism (Yale University Press) and co-editor of Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid's Table. He is long associated with the Havurah movement and a neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism. Tamara M. Green, PhD, was a founding member of the Jewish Healing Center and has written extensively about "being sick and being Jewish." In her secular life, she is professor of Classics and chair of the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter College. Rabbi Peter Knobel, PhD, is rabbi of Temple Beth Emet—the Free Synagogue in Evanston, Illinois, and holds a PhD in Bible from Yale University. He has chaired numerous major commissions of the Reform Movement and is prominent as both a rabbinic leader and a scholar. He is especially interested in applying Jewish ethical principles to the life of the Jewish community. Most recently he chaired the liturgy committee of the Reform Movement as it produced its newest Siddur, Mishkan Tefillah. Adriane Leveen, MSW, PhD, has taught at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, and at Stanford University as a senior lecturer in the Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religious Studies. She will soon be teaching at HUC-JIR in New York. Dr. Leveen has published in Prooftexts, and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and is a contributor to a forthcoming volume, Women's Torah Commentary, sponsored by Women of Reform Judaism. Dr. Leveen’s book Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers will be published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics; An Introduction to Jewish Ethics; and the LifeLights™ pastoral care booklet Doing Teshuvah: Undoing Mistakes, Repairing Relationships and Finding Inner Peace (Jewish Lights). Dr. Newman is available for scholar-in-residence weekends and repentance workshops. Dr. Louis Newman is available to speak on the following topics: Repentance: It's Easier Than You Think, It's Harder Than You Imagine Curses and Stumbling-blocks: How to Relate to the Vulnerable among Us Judaism and Politics: Is Torah Liberal or Conservative? Whistle-blowing: Am I My Brother's (and Sister's) Keeper? The Narrative and the Normative: The Value of Stories for Jewish Ethics Rabbi David B. Ruderman, PhD, is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Maryland (1974–1983) and Yale University (1983–1994). He is the author of many books and articles, and recently won the Koret Award for the best book in Jewish History in 2001, Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key. He is the immediate past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. In 2001, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture honored him with its lifetime achievement award for his work in Jewish history. David I. Schulman, JD, is a pioneer in the field of HIV law and policy and in the Jewish health and healing movement. In 1981 he was one of the founders of the Jewish Hospice Commission of Los Angeles. In 1986 he became the world's first government AIDS discrimination attorney. In the late 1980s he served on Reform Judaism’s national AIDS Committee. He is an advisor to the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, and is the supervising attorney of the AIDS/HIV Discrimination Unit in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. B.A., Stanford 1973, J.D., U.C.L.A. School of Law 1978. Dr. Howard Silverman, MD, MS, is a clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix and a clinical professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University, and formerly served as the education director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. With five years experience in designing distance education programs for physicians and medical students, he is the Initiative's project leader. Through Temple Chai of Scottsdale, Arizona’s Shalom Center, Dr. Silverman developed two programs for Jewish health care professionals to help them integrate their clinical and spiritual lives. The program resulted in increased Jewish communal participation, increased job satisfaction, and reduced feelings of burnout by participants. Albert J. Winn's (MA) photographs are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the International Center of Photography, and he has shown nationally and internationally. He has received fellowships from the NEA/WestAF and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and his work has been published in the Jewish Quarterly Review, Zeek, ZYZZYVA, and on FreshYarn.com. He lives in Los Angeles. Rabbi Elliott N. Dorff, PhD, is the author of many important books, including The Way Into Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam): A Brief Introduction for Christians. An active voice in contemporary interfaith dialogue, he is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism), and chair of the Academy of Judaic, Christian and Muslim Studies. Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD, is available to speak on the following topics: • Jewish Medical Ethics • Conservative Judaism • Jewish and American Law • Finding God in Prayer • A Jewish Approach to Poverty