Danya Ruttenberg is the author of Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon Press), nominated for the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature, and editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (2009) and Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. She is also co-editor, with Rabbi Elliot Dorff, of three books for the Jewish Publication Society’s Jewish Choices/Jewish Voices series: Sex and Intimacy; War and National Security; and Social Justice. In 2010 the Jewish Week named her one of the “36 Under 36” (the Jewish world’s 36 most influential leaders under age 36), and the Forward recognized her as one of the fifty most influential women rabbis. She serves as a contributing editor or on the advisory board to four publications: Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, Jewschool.com, Lilith Magazine, and the academic journal Women and Judaism. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and an M.A. in Rabbinic Studies, as well as rabbinic ordination, from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University. She currently serves as Senior Jewish Educator at Tufts University’s Hillel, and teaches and lectures nationwide.