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Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. His work focuses on the American Orthodox community and the variations in Orthodox practice and ritual over the course of American Jewish history. He is the author or editor of 15 books. His most recent book, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010, was awarded the Everett Family Foundation Award for the best non-fiction Jewish book of 2012 from the Jewish Book Council. Rabbi Avi Weiss is the Founding Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale-the Bayit, and founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and Yeshivat Maharat. He is also the co-founder of the International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF), an international organization of Modern Orthodox rabbis. Rabbi Weiss served as National Chairman of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) from 1982-1991 and subsequently as National President for AMCHA - the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, raising a voice of moral conscience on behalf of the Jewish people and humankind throughout the world. In 2013, Newsweek ranked him the 10th most prominent rabbi in the United States. Rabbi Weiss is the author of Holistic Prayer, Women at Prayer, and Spiritual Activism.

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