The life of a journal is rarely dull. In addition to encountering insightful and creative scholarship through the years, a journal forges a space in which people interested in overlapping ideas and concerns can gather. Many of these people take a leadership role in a journal to help shape its trajectory, scope, and depth. The importance of such volunteers cannot be overstated: they carry forward the work of a particular journal and in so doing they nourish a broader field. And, in time, some individuals move on to other adventures.
This biography holds true for the Journal of Jewish Ethics. From its very inception as an idea many years ago in the hallways of the annual meetings of the Society of Jewish Ethics, this journal has gathered together incredible people keen to bring this venue into reality and thereby shape the general field of Jewish Ethics. One individual emerged...
