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    Jonathan Fass

    Jonathan Fass is the Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of RootOne at The Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion Project of New York.
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    Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
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    Shmuly Yanklowitz, ed.
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    Leonard Levin, ed.
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    Samuel C. Heilman
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