Rabbi Cherie is well known in the Boston area and beyond. She was ordained by the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York which is a pluralistic* Jewish seminary. She has served as rabbi at Congregation Eitz Chayim in Cambridge, Temple Emanuel of Marlborough, Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital. She also was the Interim President of the Academy for Jewish Religion and is a founder and national chair of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education.

* Pluralism borrows from the wisdom, understandings and teachings of all the denominations of Judaism.

Professor Everett Fox

Professor Fox is the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University. He is the author of The Five Books of Moses: A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary and Notes. He was also a religious consultant to the Dreamworks animated feature, "Prince of Egypt."