Rabbi 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 (NYU Press, 2009) and Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press). Rabbi Ruttenberg 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. She’s also a contributing editor to Lilith and the academic journal Women and Judaism, is on the editorial board of (and blogs at) Jewschool.com, and has been published in many books and periodicals over the years. In 2010, the Jewish Week recognized her as one of the “36 Under 36″ (36 most influential leaders under age 36) and the Forward recognized her as one of the top 50 most influential women rabbis. Before receiving her rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, she grew up in the Chicago area, received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and worked in San Francisco as a freelance writer. Rabbi Ruttenberg lives in the Boston area with her husband Nir and sons Yonatan and Shir, serves as Senior Jewish Educator at Tufts University’s Hillel, and teaches and lectures nationwide.