MOST REVEREND TIMOTHY MICHAEL DOLAN is the Archbishop of New York. Shortly after his ordination to the priesthood in his native St. Louis, Mo., he earned a doctoral degree in American church history at Catholic University in 1983. In 1987, he was appointed to a five-year term as secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C. Later, he returned to St. Louis as vice rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, where he was also director of spiritual formation and professor of church history. In 1994, he was appointed rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed auxiliary bishop of St. Louis. The following year, he was named archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Archbishop Dolan was named the 10th archbishop of New York by Pope Benedict VI in 2009.
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ARNOLD M. EISEN is the seventh chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Previously, he was the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University. Earlier, he was a senior lecturer in Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He earned his bachelor degrees at Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania before earning his doctoral degree in the history of Jewish thought at Hebrew University. He is the author of numerous academic papers and books, most recently Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1998), and The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America (2000), which he co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Coden.
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EDWARD BRISTOW, professor of history at Fordham University, initiated the Nostra Aetate Dialogues in 1993, when he was dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center. He edited the proceedings of the first five dialogues, which Fordham University Press subsequently published as No Religion Is An Island. Bristow in the author of three books in the fields of Jewish history and European history.
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