Maurice Lamm is an Orthodox rabbi and lecturer at Yeshiva University in New York, N.Y. He is author of The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (Jonathan David Publishers, 2000).

Read an Aug. 2, 2009, article from the New York Times about how declining funds have led to turmoil in cemeteries.

Louis H. Bolce teaches a course on religion and politics at Baruch College in New York City. Bolce’s research interests include what he calls the anti-Christian fundamentalist factor in contemporary politics, and he and Gerald De Maio (also at Baruch College) are working on a book about the rise of secularist influence in the Democratic Party.

The Rev. James Forbes Jr. is senior minister emeritus at Riverside Church in New York City.

Samuel Abrams is a political science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He is the author of Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.

Melody Barnes is vice provost for global student leadership initiatives at New York University. She previously served as President Barack Obama’s domestic policy adviser.

Laura Underkuffler is a law professor at Cornell Law School in Ithica, N.Y. and has written about religious discrimination.

David L. Gregory is a law professor at St. John’s University in Jamaica, N.Y., who specializes in labor and employment issues. He co-wrote Labor Management Relations and the Law (Foundation, 1999) and edited Labor and the Constitution: Labor and Property, Privacy, Discrimination and International Relations (Garland Press, 1999). 

Douglas A. Hicks is is provost and dean of the faculty of Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. Hicks is an ordained Presbyterian minister and author of Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership (Cambridge University, 2003). He is a leading commentator on issues of faith and work and can speak to the impact of the growing presence of […]