The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches is published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB)and contains detailed financial data from most denominations. The data is self-reported.

Anne Lapidus Lerner is director and founder of the Jewish Women’s Studies Program, director of the Jewish Feminist Research Group and assistant professor of Jewish literature at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She is also faculty adviser to its Isha El Akhota: The Women’s Center.

Lori Hope Lefkovitz is a professor of gender and Judaism at Northeastern University and former director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies. She can discuss general questions about gender and Judaism and the place of sexuality in the RRC’s curriculum on sexuality. Contact 215-576-0800 ext. 147, [email protected].

Michael Carroll is a professor emeritus in the department of sociology at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. Carroll researches the sociology of religion and migration. He is also a Dean of Faculty of Arts at Laurier University.

Joel L. Kushner is director of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion’s Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation, which is in Los Angeles.

Martin David Yaffe is a professor of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. He is the editor of Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader.

Mary Hunt is co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual in Silver Spring, Md. She is a Roman Catholic who describes herself as a feminist theologian.

Annmarie Early is an associate professor of counseling at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. In 2008, she spoke at a leadership conference for Mennonite pastors on the subject of sexual wholeness.

Moshe Sokol is dean of Lander College for Men and Beis Medrash L’ Talmud at Touro College in New York City. Sokol has participated in, taught at and delivered papers at several conferences and sessions on Judaism and the environment.