DR. ALYSSA GRAY is Associate Professor of Codes and Responsa at HUC-JIR in New York. She received her PhD in Talmud and Rabbinics from JTS, and also holds an LLM from the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. She is the
author of the book A Talmud in Exile as well as a number of articles on Talmud criticism and the history of halakhah. She has taught and lectured in the U.S., the U.K., and Latin America.