Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff is Chief Academic Officer of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. He is the author of six books and more than forty scholarly articles in the field of American Jewish history. Dr. Eleff ’s most recent books, Who Rules the Synagogue? (Oxford, 2016) and Mod­ern Orthodox Judaism (JPS, 2016), were both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award.