From a 2013 bio: "Dr. Gail Labovitz is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University, where she teaches primarily for the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and is also an ordained Conservative rabbi." She has had short stories and articles published in Jewish and feminist journals, and is the author of <i>Marriage and Metaphor: Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature</i>.