Leonard Fein was a passionate and gifted writer, teacher and veteran social activist. He was deputy director of the M.I.T./Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, served as director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, and was the founder of Moment magazine; Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; and the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy. His books include Against the Dying of the Light: A Parent's Story of Love, Loss and Hope, Where Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and Israel: Politics and People.
