Michael Leo Samuel writes and lectures at community colleges and seminaries across the country, in addition to leading symposiums on a variety of contemporary theological and social issues. He has spent the last twenty-five years as a pulpit rabbi within the Conservative movement. Rabbi Samuel is a graduate of the Lubavitch Rabbinical Seminary (Yoreh Yoreh, Yadin Yadin) in Brooklyn and Jerusalem and holds a Doctorate of Ministry degree from the San Francisco Theological Seminary (member of the GTU). He is the author of "The Lord is My Shepherd: The Theology of the Caring God" (Jason Aronson In...