For two decades, Jack Shechter, Ph.D., served as Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of the Department of Continuing Education—renamed The Whizen Center for Continuing Education—at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University). Prior to his tenure at the University of Judaism, he served as Executive Director of the New England Region of the United Synagogue of America, followed by a decade as the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Pittsburgh. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received the Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and is the author of The Land of Israel: Its Theological Dimensions (2010) and Journey of a Rabbi, The Idea of Monotheism: The Evolution of a Foundational Concept, and the forthcoming Sacred Thought, Sacred Action: The "Religiosity" in Religion.