Bruce Phillips is Professor of Sociology & Jewish Communal Service, Hebrew Union College and at Louchheim School of Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California. His published work covers topics from Iranians and Israelis in the United States, to Jewish suburbanization, Jewish education, the economics of Jewish life, and more. He authored the 2004 Bay Area Jewish Community Study and the ground-breaking study, Re-Examining Intermarriage.