Rabbi Saul J. Berman is a leading Orthodox teacher and thinker. He is the director of Edah, a new non-profit center in New York City devoted to the invigoration of modern Orthodox ideology and religious life. As a Rabbi, a scholar, and an educator, he has made extensive contributions to the intensification of women's Jewish education, to the role of social ethics in Synagogue life, and to the understanding of the applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society.