Mau­rice D. Har­ris is a rab­bi, writer, and teacher liv­ing in Eugene, Ore­gon. Ordained at the Recon­struc­tion­ist Rab­bini­cal Col­lege, he served Tem­ple Beth Israel in Eugene for 8 years. Cur­rent­ly teach­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon, his essays on con­tem­po­rary Judaism have appeared in Jew­ish Cur­rents; Pre­sen­Tense; Peace­builder; Wash­ing­ton Jew­ish Week; The Jew­ish Review; The Jew­ish News of Greater Phoenix; The Texas Jew­ish Post; The Kansas City Jew­ish Chron­i­cle; and The Flori­da Jew­ish Journal.