Rabbi Dennis S. Ross is director of Concerned Clergy for Choice for the Education Fund of  Family Planning Advocates of  New York State, thousand member multi-faith statewide network of religious leaders supporting education and access to the full range of reproductive health care services. Rabbi Ross is an associate rabbi at Temple Emanuel, Worcester, MA, and he is the author of God in Our Relationships: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber, the first book to make clear for all readers the profound, elusive -- and simple -- I-Thou relationship. He speaks widely on spirituality and social justice.

Rabbi Ross has served Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, Chappaqua, NY, Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC, and synagogues in Massachusetts. He received a B. A. in Psychology from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1975, and an M. A. in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1978 where he was ordained as Rabbi in 1980. Rabbi Ross earned the Master of Social Work degree from New York University in 1984 and holds the Primary Certificate in Rational-Emotive Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute. He is an LCSW in Massachusetts and an LMSW in New York. An honorary Doctor of Divinity degree awarded by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2005 included recognition of his advocacy work for reproductive rights and stem cell research.

He has taught at the School of Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Manhattanville College and Williams College. He has taught bio-medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. For the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, he serves on the Executive Committee the Clergy Advisory Board and the Executive Committee of the Eastern Council.

He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe and other publications. He is author of Stem Cell Research: A Toolkit for Clergy Education and Advocacy and lead author of When a Woman Makes a Choice: A Curriculum for Clinical Pastoral Education, both through Family Planning Advocates of New York State. His contribution to the LifeLights series of Jewish Lights Publishing is "Abortion and Judaism: Rabbinic Opinion and Jewish Law." His first book, The Ten Commandments: From the Shadow of Eden to the Promise of Canaan, is published by D & F Scott/BIBAL Press. 

Rabbi Ross travels regularly to speak on the relationship between spirituality, stem cell research, reproductive health, end-of-life issues, separation of Church and State, and Jewish medical ethics.

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