Prof. Rabbi Yossi Turner is Professor of Jewish Thought at The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was ordained at Jerusalem's Seminary for Judaic Studies (now the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary). In addition to his many articles he is the author of several books, among them Faith and Humanism: An Inquiry in Franz Rosenzweig’s Religious Philosophy (Hebrew); The Relation to Zion and the Diaspora in 20th Century Jewish Thought: A Study in The Philosophy of Jewish Existence (Hebrew), and Quest for Life: a Study in Aharon David Gordon's Philosophy of Man in Nature (English). He is presently involved in the development of an original philosophy of Jewish existence.