Rabbi Ed Feinstein is the senior rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA. He serves on the faculty of the Ziegler Rabbinical School at American Jewish University, the Whizin Center for the Jewish Family and the Synagogue 3000 Initiative. He has authored several books and many articles and is a master storyteller.

Laurie Levenson is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Ethical Advocacy at Loyola University Law School. Prior to joining the law school faculty, she served as Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles, receiving the Attorney General’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance.

Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding Dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine. A prolific author and lecturer, Professor Chemerinsky has argued many cases before the United States Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals and the California Supreme Court.

Professor Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. His twenty-two published books include two prize winning volumes on biblical narrative and award winning translations of Genesis and the Five Books of Moses. He is this year’s recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters.