Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of 11 books including the national best-seller The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country From the Religious Right, and with Cornel West the book Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Culture, Race, and Society, and Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul,  is the editor of TIKKUN magazine, co-chair of the interfaith and secular-humanist-welcoming Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue-without-walls in Berkeley and San Francisco www.beyttikkun.org, and, with Cat Zavis, the joyous caregiver to two cats and two dogs!