Amy E. Schwartz is Moment Magazine’s opinion and book editor, as well as editor of the magazine’s popular “Ask the Rabbis” section. Schwartz was a longtime editorial writer and op-ed columnist at The Washington Post, covering education, science and culture. She has also worked at Harper’s, The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly. She is president of the non-denominational Jewish Study Center in Washington, DC and speaks and runs workshops on topics of Jewish commentary, psalms and literature nationwide.
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg is president of the Hadar Institute’s J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life. His many books include The Jewish Way, Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot and the forthcoming The Triumph of Life. He was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and founding president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
Rabbi Shira Stutman is the senior rabbi at Sixth & I in Washington, DC. She is rabbi-in-residence for the Jewish Federations of North America and teaches on the faculty of the Wexner Foundation’s Heritage Program. She was named one of America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis by The Forward, spotlighted as a Woman to Watch by Jewish Women International, and featured as a notable rabbi by Tablet Magazine.
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg is a leading Jewish thinker, and has written exxtensively on Jewish tradition in post-modenity, Jewish theology after the Holocaust and the rebirth of Israel, the new encounter between Judaism and Christianity, the ethics of Jewish power, and issues of religious and cultural pluralism. He has seerved in the Orthodox rabbinate, academia (history and Jewish studies), and Jewish communal life (President Emeritus of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; Founding President of the Steinhardt Foundation), and is the author of numerous books including "The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays" and "For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Betwen Judaism and Christianity." He received his MA and PhD in American History from Harvard University. He was Associate Professor of history at Yeshiva University and founder, chairman amd professor in the department of Jewish studies of the City College of the City University of New York.
As senior rabbi of Washington DC's Sith & I Historic Synagogue, Shira Stutman has found ways to engage Jews at the intersection of Jewish practice and social justice. She graduated from Columbia University in 1995 with a degree in political science and attended the rabinnical School at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and was ordained in 2007 assuming the directorship of Jewish programmingat Sixth & I in 2010. Hailed as one of the Forward 50 in 2013, she serves as board chair of Jews United for Justice and on the J Street rabbinic cabinet.
