Ferrari is Professor at the Law Faculty of the Universita degli Studi di Milano and president of the International Consortium for Law and Religious Studies. He is one of the experts on the legal status of Islam in Europe. He is a frequent contributor to journals, workshops and conferences dealing with these and other legal issues, spanning the civil and canon law traditions. His many publications include: Islam and European Legal Systems (edited with A. Bradney, Aldershot, 2000), Musulmani in Italia (Bologna, 1996), Law and Religion in post-Communist Europe (Leuven, 2003).

Fischer holds the Horowitz Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded his Ph.D. degree in June 2007 from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Hebrew University in Jerusalem. As a fellow of the Van Leer Institute and of the Shalom Hartman Institute, he has given university talks and published numerous articles in Israeli and European journals on the topics of Jewish history, Israeli society, secularization, Zionism, and religion and tolerance and inter religious dialogue from within the monotheistic traditions. His edited book (together with Adam Seligman), The Burden of Tolerance: Religious Traditions and the Challenge of Pluralism was published (in Hebrew)by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and by HaKibbutz HaMeuchad in 2007. Fischer has worked in the field of education for the past 25 years. In the past 10 years he has worked in the field of religion, democracy and tolerance. From 1996-2007 he has been the founder and executive director of Yesodot—Center for Torah and Democracy which works to advance education for democracy in the State Religious school sector. 

Kazmi is an ophthalmologist and regional scientific manager for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London and Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Born in Pakistan, trained in the United Kingdom, Dr. Kazmi has had a long standing involvement with community development and health care provision projects in underprivileged rural communities in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. He has established ophthalmic care facilities in the remote North Western territories of Pakistan and maintains close contact with their workings, both in leading surgical teams and in the management of the facilities. While living in Boston, he has been actively involved in the Pakistani Muslim community and an active member of the Muslim-Jewish dialogue group established with the American Jewish Committee.

Quillen is Associate Professor of History at Rice University and director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance. She is the author of the books Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine and the Language of Humanism (1998) and The Secret: by Francesco Petrarch (2003), as well as numerous articles. Her scholarly research focuses on European humanism and on feminist political theory.

Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs there. He has lived and taught at universities in the United States, in Israel and in Hungary where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990-1992. He lived close to twenty years in Israel where he was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970s. His books include The Idea of Civil Society (Free Press, 1992), Inner-worldly Individualism (Transaction Press, 1994), The Problem of Trust (Princeton University Press, 1997), Modernity’s Wager: Authority, the Self and Transcendence (Princeton University Press, 2000) with Mark Lichbach Market and Community (Penn State University Press, 2000), Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Notre Dame University Press, 2004) and with Robert Weller, Michael Puett and Bennett Simon, Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Oxford University Press, 2008). His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

Stone is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Director of Yeshiva University’s Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo. In the fall of 2007, she was the Gruss Professor of Talmudic Civil Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School and, in spring 2008, she is Visiting Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In 2006-07, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School and at the Hebrew University Law School. In 2004-2005, she held the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law at the Harvard Law School. She also has taught Jewish Law at Haifa Law School and Tel Aviv Law School as a Cegla Scholar in Residence. In addition to teaching courses on Jewish Law, Professor Stone teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Law, Religion and the State.  A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University Law School, Professor Stone also was a Danforth Fellow in Jewish History and Classical Religions at Yale University. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Stone clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Diné Israel, a peer review Journal of Jewish Law, co-edited with Tel Aviv Law School. She is also on the editorial board of the Jewish Quarterly Review and the Journal of Hebraic Political Studies. She is co-curator of the Jews and Justice Series at the Center for Jewish History and a member of the board of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, the Center for Ethics of Yeshiva University, and the International Summer School in Religion and Public Life.  Professor Stone writes and lectures on the intersection of Jewish legal thought and contemporary legal theory. Her publications include: "In Pursuit of the Countertext: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary American Legal Theory," (Harvard Law Review); "The Jewish Conception of Civil Society," in Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society (Princeton University Press); and "Justice, Mercy and Gender in Rabbinic Thought." Professor Stone's work has been translated into Italian, German, Hebrew, and Arabic. In 2004, she was chosen, along with five other path-breaking scholars in the field of Jewish Studies, to reflect on her scholarly career in the first edition of the revised Jewish Quarterly Review. 

Winshall is a principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a pioneer in the field of electronic publishing and distribution of reference information. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Visiting Committee for the Libraries at MIT, and of the Board of Directors of the MIT Hillel. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Yiddish Book Center, and was a founding Board member of the Jewish Community Day School of Watertown, Massachusetts.

Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and mathematics at Dartmouth College and his graduate work at Harvard University, receiving his degree in 1977. After leaving Harvard he did a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and a two-year fellowship at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In 1980 he joined the Sociology Department at Northwestern University. During his twelve years at Northwestern he was Director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and for four years chair of the Department of Sociology. He was a founding member of Northwestern's Department of Statistics, and held a courtesy appointment in Economics. From 1984 to 1986 he was Director of the Economics Research Center at NORC. He has been a member of the Harvard department since 1992. He is currently doing research on several topics: The Ten Point Coalition, a group of black ministers who are working with the Boston police to reduce youth violence; statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; causes of the racial difference in performance in elite colleges and universities; changes in the racial differential in imprisonment rates over the past sixty years.