Gail Labovitz is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University (Los Angeles) and is an ordained Conservative rabbi. She has written extensively about gender in rabbinic writings of Late Antiquity and on Jewish Law, including Marriage and Metaphor: Constuctions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature and the volume on Tractate Mo'ed Qatan for the Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud. She also served for ten years on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and is currently a member of the Social Justice Committee and Convener of the Reproductive Right Working Group.