Yehuda Kurtzer is President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, overseeing its educational initiatives for Jewish communal leaders. He taught at Brandeis as the inaugural Chair of Jewish Communal Innovation. His book Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, offers new thinking on sustaining a meaningful Jewish identity in the face of modernity's challenges. He lives in Riverdale with his wife Stephanie Ives, their two sons, and their baby girl.