Neil Gillman, Rabbi, Ph.D.,is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Gillman's scholarly work centers around issues in modern Jewish theology and on the phenomenology of religion. His book Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1990) won the 1990 National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought, and his book The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1997) was a finalist for the same award in 1997. Dr. Gillman serves on the editorial board of Sh’ma and is a consultant to various Jewish educational enterprises. He was one of three founding theologians of The Abrahamic Accord, an interfaith dialog group sponsored by the Episcopalian Diocese of Rhode Island. Dr. Gillman was a member of the commission that drafted Emet Ve’Emunah, the first statement of principles of the Conservative Movement in American Jewish life. He is one of three columnists who write on the weekly Torah reading cycle in the Jewish Week, New York’s Anglo-Jewish newspaper. Dr. Gillman has delivered lectures on “Covenant in Judaism and Mormonism” at a conference sponsored by the University of Denver and on “Creation in the Bible and the Liturgy” at a conference sponsored by Harvard’s Program in Religion and Ecology, Center of the Study of World Religions. His current areas of research focus on key issues in the postmodern study of Jewish theology, on the nature of God-language, and on the relationship of liturgy and ritual in Judaism. He is currently completing a book entitled Encountering God in Judaism. Day 1: Afternoon Presentation