Peretz Elkins, Dov

Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, coeditor of Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul, is a nationally known lecturer, educator, author and book critic. He has written widely for the Jewish and general press and is the author of thirty books and a series of handbooks for Jewish group leaders. Rabbi Elkins is a former member of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Council for Jewish Education.