Rabbi David M. Horowitz is the rabbi emeritus of Temple Israel in Akron, Ohio. Rabbi Horowitz has served, among others, as a member of Jewish Community Board of Akron, of the Community Relations Council (Chair), the National Committee on HIV/AIDS for the Union For Reform Congregations, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Akron Area Interfaith Council (both as treasurer and president). Rabbi Horowitz lectures widely on issues dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns, the challenge of the radical right, as well as a variety of Judaic subjects, to academic institutions, religious institutions, and corporations throughout the United States and in foreign lands. He is a frequent presenter at the Academy for Spiritual Formation.