Author’s Biography
Since retiring in 1986 as Assistant General Counsel of AT&T Technologies, Inc. (now Lucent), the author has pursued graduate work in Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University and Columbia University (1986-1990), building on his pre-law background of fifteen years’ study of Jewish texts – Tanakh, Talmud, History, and Literature – through his college years, at Yeshiva Etz Chaim of Boro Park, Talmudical Academy and Teachers Institute of Yeshiva College, and private Talmud study.
During 1990-1994 he served as Assistant, later Associate Editor of Judaism, and since his retirement from the law he has published more than thirty articles in numerous journals of Jewish Thought, including Tradition, Midstream, Judaism, The Edah Journal, Bible Review, Jewish Bible Quarterly, B.D.D. A Journal of Torah and Scholarship (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Jewish Spectator, Yiddish, and the Journal of Synagogue Music.
The author has served in numerous leadership synagogue positions during the past fifty years, at the Young Israel of West Hempstead, New York, and ongregation Ahavat Achim of Fairlawn, New Jersey. These included service as President and other officer positions, trustee, various committee chairmanships and memberships, and servig as ba’al musaf on the High Holidays during 1960-2000. His published work has been praised by rabbinic and academic scholars, across denominations and study areas, as an important contribution to current issues in Jewish life and thought.