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Shai Cherry served for four years as a professor of Jewish Thought at Vanderbilt University. He received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Claremont McKenna College, and a Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Brandeis University. He is currently completing his studies for rabbinic ordination at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times.

Cherry has written on the response of Jewish theologians[1][2] and scientists[3] to Darwinian evolutionary thought.

References

1. ^ Cherry, Shai (2003). Abraham Isaac Kook on Evolution: How evolutionary theory supports a mystical worldview.. MyJewishLearning.com. 2. ^ Cherry, Shai (2003). Mordecai Kaplan: Accepting Darwinism.. MyJewishLearning.com. 3. ^ Cherry, Shai. (2006) "Crisis management via Bilbical Interpretation: Fundamentalism, Modern Orthodoxy, and Genesis." in Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (editors) Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. University of Chicago Press.