The First Fifty Years

Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell was the founding director of the Los Angeles Jewish Feminist Center and the first rabbinic director of Ma’yan: The Jewish Women’s Project. She is the editor of Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah (CCAR Press), and Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives.

Jessica Greenbaum is a poet, teacher, and social worker. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Spilled and Gone, and the coeditor of Mishkan HaSeder: A Passover Haggadah (CCAR Press), along with Rabbi Hara E. Person.

Rabbi Hara E. Person is chief executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She was managing editor of the The Torah: A Women’s Commentary and executive editor of Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe (CCAR Press).