Niles Elliot Goldstein is the founding rabbi of The New Shul in Greenwich Village, New York City, a program officer/educator at the Jewish Life Network, and an associate of CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He has written for Newsweek magazine, is the voice behind "Ask the Rabbi" for Microsoft, and is the National Jewish Chaplain for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. He is the author or editor of three other books. Goldstein lives in Brooklyn, New York.