My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries Volume 2
David Arnow, PhD, a psychologist by training, is widely recognized for his innovative work to make the Passover Seder a truly exciting encounter each year with Judaism's most central ideas. He has been deeply involved with many organizations in the American Jewish community and Israel and is a respected lecturer, writer, and scholar of the Passover Haggadah. He is author ofCreating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activitiesand coeditor of the two-volumeMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries,with Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD (Jewish Lights).Dr. Marc Zvi Brettleris the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and toMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef;All These Vows—Kol Nidre;May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; andWe Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor ofThe Jewish Annotated New TestamentandThe Jewish Study Bible, which won the National Jewish Book Award; co-author ofThe Bible and the Believer; and author ofHow to Read the Jewish Bible, among other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio’sFresh Airby Terry Gross.Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author ofBelieving and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought,a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and aPublishers Weekly"Best Book of the Year";The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life(all Jewish Lights); andSacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew,winner of the National Jewish Book Award.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 includingEhyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer;andTormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav(all Jewish Lights). He is also author ofRadical Judaism(Yale University Press) and co-editor ofSpeaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid's Table.He is long associated with the Havurah movement and a neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism.Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman,PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism.He has written and edited many books, includingAll the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet,Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef andAll These Vows—Kol Nidre, the first five volumes in the Prayers of Awe series; the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and he is coeditor ofMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries(all Jewish Lights), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.Rabbi Hoffman is a developer of Synagogue 3000, a transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century.Rabbi LawrenceA. Hoffman, PhD, is available to speak on the following topics:A Day of Wine and Moses: The Passover Haggadah and the Seder You Have Always WantedPreparing for the High Holy Days: How to Appreciate the Liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurThe Essence of Jewish Prayer: The Prayer Book in Context and Worship in Our TimeBeyond Ethnicity: The Coming Project for North American Jewish IdentitySynagogue Change: Transforming Synagogues as Spiritual and Moral Centers for the Twenty-First CenturyClick here to contact the author.Rabbi Lawrence Kushneris one of the most widely read authors by people of all faiths on Jewish spiritual life. He is the best-selling author of such books asInvisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary; God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning; Honey from the Rock: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism;The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alphabet;The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness;The Book of Words: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk;Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader;I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion and other Disguises of the Ego;Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians;The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness;The Way Into Jewish Mystical Tradition; and co-author ofBecause Nothing Looks Like God;How Does God Make Things Happen?;Where Is God?;What Does God Look Like?; andIn God's Hands.He is the Emanu-El Scholar at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El and an adjunct professor of Jewish mysticism and spirituality at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is available to speak on the following topics:• Jewish Mystical Imagination• Rymanover's Silent Aleph: What Really Happened on Sinai• Zohar on Romance and Revelation• What Makes Kabbalah Kabbalah• Sacred Stories of the Ordinary: When God Makes a Surprise Appearance in Everyday LifeClick here to contact the author.Rabbi Nehemia Polenis professor of Jewish thought at Hebrew College. He is theauthor ofThe Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, theRebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto andThe Rebbe's Daughter, recipient of a NationalJewish Book Award. He is also a contributor to the award-winningMy People'sPrayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries(Jewish Lights).Rabbi Daniel Landesis the director androsh hayeshivahof the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Pardes brings together men and women of all backgrounds to study classical Jewish texts and contemporary Jewish issues in a rigorous, challenging and open-minded environment.Rabbi Landes is also a contributor to the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award andMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts,Modern Commentaries,a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef;We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet and All These Vows—Kol Nidre (all Jewish Lights).Dr. Wendy Zierleris professor of modern Jewish literature and feminist studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. She is translator and coeditor with Rabbi Carole Balin ofTo Tread on New Ground: The Selected Writings of Hava Shapiro(forthcoming) and aBehikansi atah(Shapiro's collected writings, in the original/Hebrew). She is also author ofAnd Rachel Stole the Idolsandthe feminist Haggadah commentaryfeatured inMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries(Jewish Lights), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She contributed toMay God Remember:Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor,Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef,All These Vows—Kol Nidre, andWe Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet (all Jewish Lights).