Dr. Marc Dollinger
Dr. Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University.
He has served as research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, where he coordinated the program in Jewish Studies.
He is author of Quest For Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism In Modern America published by Princeton University Press and California Jews, co-edited with Ava Kahn, published by Brandeis University Press. He is currently at work on two projects, Is It Good For The Jews? Power, Politics, and the 1960s, and American Jewish History: A Documents Reader, which will be published by Brandeis University Press.
He serves on the California advisory committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the board of the Bureau of Jewish Education, Camp Newman-Swig, and is immediate past president of Brandeis-Hillel Day School. He was recently named Volunteer of the Year by the SF Jewish Community Federation.
Sue Fishkoff
Sue Fishkoff is a staff writer for the JTA Jewish news service, focusing on Jewish identity. She freelances for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Hadassah magazine and the London Jewish Chronicle.
From 1991-1997, Sue was a staff writer for the Jerusalem Post, serving as the paper’s New York bureau chief from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 1997 she lived in Israel where she covered the Russian and Ethiopian immigration, civil rights, the status of women, Arab-Jewish relations, health, the environment, and religious pluralism.
Sue received her BA in history from Cornell University and her MA in Soviet politics from Columbia University. Her first book, The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch, was published in 2003 by Schocken Books. Her second book, Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority, was published in October 2010. She lives in Oakland, CA.
Rabbi Dr. Irving “Yitz” Greenberg
Rabbi Dr. Irving “Yitz” Greenberg is the most influential American Jewish thinker of the past half century. As counsel to the leaders of American Jewry for decades, Rabbi Greenberg has helped set the agenda of the American Jewish community. In 1974, Rabbi Greenberg founded CLAL – The National Center for Leadership and Learning, a pioneering pluralistic program that has trained and educated a generation of lay-leaders and rabbis. In 1979, Rabbi Greenberg was appointed the Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust which led to the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., of which he was the chairman from 2000-2002. From 1997-2007, Rabbi Greenberg served as the President of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. Under Rabbi Greenberg’s leadership, the foundation developed Birthright Israel, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE), Makor, and the Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative (JECEI). Rabbi Greenberg is the author of The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays, and numerous other books and articles, and is currently completing work on a new book to be published in 2012.
Rabbi Leon Morris
Rabbi Leon Morris is one of the leading educators in the field of adult Jewish study. He was the Founding Director of the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, the premier adult Jewish learning program in the United States. Rabbi Morris was ordained from Hebrew Union College in 1997 where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and is a contributor the recently published book, Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief (Jewish Lights, 2010). Rabbi Morris now lives in Sag Harbor where he is the rabbi of Temple Adas Israel.
