Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson is vice president of American Jewish University in Los Angeles and AJU Goldstine Distinguished Scholar. He is also the rabbinic leader of the Abraham Joshua Heschel Seminary in Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative rabbis for Europe, after having founded the first Conservative/Masorti seminary in Europe since the Holocaust. He is currently publishing a new book, Judaism Beyond Belief: Wisdom for People Who Simply Want to Thrive.