PEOPLE INTERVIEWED FOR THE SERIES

 

 

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Mary C. Boys, SNJM, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB.  
Reuven R. Kimelman is Associate Professor of classical rabbinic literature at The Philip W. Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he teaches Talmud, Midrash, liturgy, and ethics. A new book, The Rhetoric of Jewish Prayer: a Literary and Historical Commentary on the Prayerbook, is forthcoming from The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. 
Sara S. Lee is Adjunct Professor of Jewish Education and Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Her academic areas of specialty are curriculum, organizational and sociological phenomena, and education leadership as they relate to Jewish education. Among the honors she has received is the Samuel Rothberg Prize in Jewish Education from the Hebrew University (1997). 
Daniel Lehmann is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as Headmaster of the New Jewish High School in Waltham, Massachusetts, which is committed to academic excellence, religious pluralism, a strong extracurricular life, intensive text-based Jewish studies, and experiential Judaism.  Rabbi Lehmann has extensive experience in Christian-Jewish relations through his work with The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore and the Catholic-Jewish Colloquium project. 
Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion in Nashville, Tennessee. She has filmed, for the Teaching Company's Great Lectures series, "Introduction to the Old Testament," "Great Figures of the Old Testament," and "Great Figures of the New Testament."
John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, a Servite priest, is Professor of Ethics and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.  The author of several books and numerous articles, he is president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and a member of the Advisory Committee on Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB.  
Gilbert S. Rosenthal is a Conservative rabbi who serves as Executive Director of the National Council of Synagogues, which represents the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements in interreligious dialogue in the United States.  He is the author or editor of ten books, including Contemporary Judaism and The Many Faces of Judaism. He is a co-producer of Walking God's Paths. 
David Fox Sandmel is a Reform rabbi who serves as The Crown-Ryan Professor of Jewish Studies at the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is also the spiritual leader at K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation. He co-edited Christianity in Jewish Terms (Westview, 2000) and Irreconcilable Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians (Westview Press, 2001).
George M. Smiga, a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Cleveland, is adjunct professor of sacred scripture at Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as pastor of Saint Noel Parish in Willoughby Hills.  He is the author of Pain and Polemic: Anti-Judaism in the Gospels, published by Paulist Press.