Edward Feld, born 1943, is a

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and author. He was the senior editor of the conservative

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maḥzor ''

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'' (2010), which was the first conservative Jewish liturgical publication to include passages aimed at the needs of gay couples. Feld currently serves as the Senior Editor of the Rabbinical Assembly's forthcoming

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and festivals prayer book ''

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,'' a follow-up to the maḥzor preceding it, similarly laced with commentaries and contemporarily-sensitive alternative textual options. Feld's other works include ''The Spirit of Jewish Renewal: Finding Faith After the Holocaust'' (Jewish Lights Publishing: 2003), ''Joy, Despair, and Hope: Reading Psalms'' (Cascade Books: 2013), and many articles, including "Towards an

Aggadic Aggadah ( he, ''ʾAggāḏā'' or ''Haggāḏā''; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ''ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ''; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism ...

Judaism" (

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: 29, 3; 1975). Rabbi Feld is married to educator, activist, playwright, poet and author

Merle Feld Merle Feld (born in 1947) is an educator, activist, author, playwright, and poet. Biography Merle Feld was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1968 she graduated from Brooklyn College and moved to Boston, where she became involved with t ...

, and the two have a daughter, Lisa, and a son, Uri.

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