Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, is author of Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition, and is editor of Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Spiritual Perspectives on Judaism and Health. He has published widely on health and healing. He is former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and professor of modern Hebrew literature and the Steinberg Professor of Human Relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Arnold Eisen, PhD, is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and
Religion at Stanford University and chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the area
of modern Jewish thought and practice and has long worked with synagogues and
federations around the country in the effort to revitalize Jewish communities and
find new meaning for Jewish texts and observances. Currently he is at work on a
book entitled Rethinking Zionism. Eisen is married to Adriane Leveen, another
contributor to this volume, and is the father of Shulie (twenty) and Nathaniel
(seventeen).

Eitan Fishbane, PhD, a frequent scholar-in-residence and guest speaker at congregations across North America, is assistant professor of Jewish thought at The Jewish Theological Seminary; author of As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford University Press); and co-editor of Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections (Jewish Lights).

Eitan Fishbane is available to speak on the following topics:

• Shabbat
• Prayer
• Spirituality
• God and Theology
• Mysticism
• Ethics
• Torah

Tamara M. Green, PhD, was a founding member of the Jewish Healing Center
and has written extensively about "being sick and being Jewish." In her secular
life, she is professor of Classics and chair of the Department of Classical and
Oriental Studies at Hunter College.

Adriane Leveen, MSW, PhD, has taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, and at Stanford University as a senior lecturer
in the Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religious Studies. She will soon be
teaching at HUC-JIR in New York. Dr. Leveen has published in Prooftexts, and
the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and is a contributor to a forthcoming
volume, Women's Torah Commentary, sponsored by Women of Reform
Judaism. Dr. Leveen's book Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers will
be published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Howard Silverman, MD, MS, is a clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and a clinical professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University, and formerly served as the education director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. With five years experience in designing distance education programs for physicians and medical students, he is the Initiative's project leader. Through Temple Chai of Scottsdale, Arizona's Shalom Center, Dr. Silverman developed two programs for Jewish health care professionals to help them integrate their clinical and spiritual lives. The program resulted in increased Jewish communal participation, increased job satisfaction, and reduced feelings of burnout by participants.

Rachel Adler, PhD, is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Feminist Studies
at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. She is the author of Engendering Judaism:
An Inclusive Theology and Ethics and many articles on feminist approaches to
Jewish theology and Halacha.