Rabbi Ben Kamin, the founder of Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls, is a scholar of civil rights who has written extensively about Moses and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in countless articles and in previous books such as Thinking Passover (Dutton, 1997) and the forthcoming Nothing Like Sunshine: A Memoir of My High School, A Friend, and Martin Luther King (Michigan State University Press, 2010).