Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish studies and religious studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. Among his specialties are Jewish ethics, and contemporary conceptions of Jewish religiosity, renewal and fundamentalism.

Judith Katz is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Among her areas of expertise is representation of Jews in the arts and popular culture.

Rachel Baum is deputy director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also teaches courses on the Holocaust, contemporary American Jewish identity and Jewish feminism. Additionally, she co-directs the Stephen Weinstein Holocaust Symposium, an international gathering of Holocaust scholars.

Andrea Greenbaum is an associate professor of English at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla. She is the editor of Jews of South Florida and is also an expert on Jewish graphic novels.

Annelise Orleck is a history professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. She is an expert on Jewish-American immigrants, especially Soviet immigrants.

Read this July 15, 2009, Chicago Tribune article about the Episcopal Church, the American arm of the Anglican Communion, voting to make gays and lesbians eligible for any ordained ministry.

Read this May 3, 2012, New York Times article about the United Methodist Church voting overwhelmingly not to change language in its books of laws and doctrines about homosexuality, including ordination of gay clergy.

Read this Aug. 22, 2009, Washington Post article about the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s vote to allow gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy in the church. With more than 4 million members, the ELCA became one of the largest Christian denominations in the country to significantly open the pulpit to gay clergy.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History and dean of the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Schwartz is an expert on contemporary Jewish history with a particular emphasis on the role of women. Her book, The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish […]