Prof. Rabbi Ruth Langer is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Boston College, its Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Director of its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. She received her Ph.D. in Jewish Liturgy in 1994 and her rabbinic ordination in 1986 from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Her Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (Oxford, 2012), combines her interests in Jewish liturgy and Christian-Jewish relations. She is also author of To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism, (HUC, 1998) and Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to Research (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), and is co-editor of Enabling Dialogue About the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians (Paulist Press, 2020) and Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue (Eisenbrauns, 2005).