Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson is the AJU Goldstine Distinguished Scholar and vice president of American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is also rabbinic leader of the Abraham Joshua Heschel Seminary in Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative rabbis for Europe, after founding 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.