Rabbi Moshe Reiss, z”l, was a retired businessman and an Independent scholar. He was an ordained rabbi (private ordination) and served as assistant campus rabbi at Yale. He was a graduate of Brooklyn College and held an advanced degree in economics from Oxford University. At various points in his life, he taught at Fairleigh Dickinson and the Katholic University of Leuven. He co-authored The Matriarchs of Genesis: Seven Women, Five Views with David Zucker. Many of his Torah contributions can be found on his website, http://www.moshereiss.org/.