RABBI DENNIS S. ROSS is the author of the forthcoming All Politics is Religious: Speaking Faith to Power, to be released by SkyLight Paths Publishing in 2012.
Rabbi Ross directs Concerned Clergy for Choice, an
interfaith reproductive rights advocacy network of 1000 clergy. A project
of the Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State,
Concerned Clergy for Choice has earned national recognition for its work in the
New York State Capitol, with Congress and in regional and national media. Concerned
Clergy for Choice was an outspoken religious voice to Congress during the health
care reform debate and attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, and as New York
State legalized marriage equality for same-gender couples. Efforts as these
earned Concerned Clergy for Choice the Decade of Dedication Award from the
Religious Institute. Rabbi Ross is a rabbi at Congregation Beth Emeth in
Albany, N. Y. and has served synagogues in New York, Washington, D.C. and
Massachusetts.
Rabbi Ross' third book, All
Politics is Religious: Speaking Faith to Power, on addressing religion and
policy with the media, elected officials and the community, will be released by
SkyLight Paths Publishing this spring. His most recent book, God in Our
Relationships: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber
is released by Jewish Lights Publishing as is his contribution to the LifeLights
Series, "Abortion and Judaism." He has written for The New York Times,
The Boston Globe, The Jewish Daily Forward, and he blogs for Religion
Dispatches and RH Reality Check.
Rabbi Ross earned a B. A. in
Psychology from Queens College of the City University of New York, an M. A. in
Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
in New York where he was ordained as Rabbi, the Master of Social Work degree
from New York University and the Primary Certificate in Rational-Emotive
Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute. He is certified in All-Options
Counseling by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice through the
Auburn Theological Seminary. An honorary Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union
College - Jewish Institute of Religion included recognition of his advocacy
work for reproductive rights and stem cell research.
He has taught at Hebrew Union
College, Manhattanville College and Williams College and was an Associate of
the Faculty of the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he taught
bio-medical ethics. He has led pastoral care and on-camera media training
workshops for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the National
Association of Social Workers, the National Association of Jewish Chaplains,
and the National Abortion Federation.
He travels frequently to speak
about reproductive rights, stem cell research, end-of-life, spirituality and
the separation of church and state.
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