An academic and activist from Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Elliot Ratzman teaches college courses on religion, race, social ethics, and Jewish studies. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan, a center dedicated to addressing interreligious and interethnic violence. He is completing his first book, Zipporah’s Knife: A Jewish Reckoning with Race, which explores the ethics of Jewish anti-racism. His next projects involve the history of American Jewish pacifism, the concept and ethics of “resistance,” as well as an inquiry into modern ethical disciplines within (and outside of) religious traditions. He is urgently concerned with understanding individuals, congregations, and communities who fall outside of the circles of liberals, progressives, and peacemakers—the moral challenge of democratic engagement in our time. Most of his interests originate in the problem of bystanders and rescue, and the strategies and tactics that moderns have developed to coordinate moral commitment with practical action. In his writing and activism, Ratzman seeks to combine the insights of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, the audaciousness of Saul Alinsky, and the dynamism of Paul Farmer with the challenges articulated by ethicist Peter Singer and physician Paul Farmer on sharing resources under scarcity and reducing suffering in a world of imperfect justice. Ratzman has had decades of involvement working with co-existence/co-resistance projects in the Middle East and with economic justice projects in the United States through DSA. Dr. Ratzman also serves on the board of Extend Programs: Educating for Justice in Israel/Palestine, the Jewish Peace Fellowship, and is on the leadership team for Bend the Arc-Jewish Action Ohio.