The Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman and Rabbi Marc A. Gellman, Ph.D.,
write the syndicated column GOD SQUAD for Tribune Media Services. They
also host a daily, half-hour television talk show of the same name that reaches
almost 12 million homes in the New York metropolitan area.
Father Tom is president and CEO of the Diocese of Rockville Centre's cable
television station, Telecare. In 1970 he received a master of divinity degree
from Our Lady of Angels Seminary. He was ordained in 1971 and earned a doctor
of ministry from Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in 1979.
In the early 1970s, Father Tom was a parish priest in Seaford, New York. He
continues to say mass regularly at Hicksville's Holy Trinity High School and
St. Vincent de Paul parish in Elmont, serving to keep him "both grounded and
focused." Father Tom has also presided at more than 4,000 weddings.
Father Tom has been recognized for his professional and pastoral work with
four Emmy Awards, a FOLIO award and numerous "Man of the Year" citations and
honorary degrees.
Rabbi Marc Gellman is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, New
York, where he has served since 1981. Rabbi Gellman was the first rabbi
appointed to the distribution committee of the UJA Federation and he was
chairman of the UJA rabbinical advisory committee. He is founding chairman of
the Long Island Rabbinical Advisory Council, and is the recipient of the
Tzedaka Award from the UJA Federation, as well as the Rabbinical Leadership
Award from the Council of Jewish Federations. Rabbi Gellman is the president of
the New York Board of Rabbis and is the recipient of its Moshowitz award for
rabbinical excellence.
Rabbi Gellman received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin with a major
in Hebrew and Semitic studies in 1969 and completed his studies at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1971. He was ordained in 1972 and
was awarded the senior homiletics prize. Rabbi Gellman received a Ph.D. in
Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1981.
Father Tom and Rabbi Gellman have authored three books together. Where
Does God Live? Questions and Answers for Parents and Children won the 1991
Christopher Award. How Do You Spell God? Answers to the Big Questions from
Around the World (with a forward by the Dalai Lama) was made into an HBO
animated special and also won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award.
Their third book, Lost and Found, was published in 1999. Father Tom
and Rabbi Gellman are in the process of writing Religion for Dummies,
scheduled to be published in February 2002.
Recently, Father Tom and Rabbi Gellman were recognized as Newsday's Long
Islanders of the Century in the category of Leaders and Activists.
Why We Are Different, How We Are The Same
Faith, Belief and Hope As Sources of Well Being
A Diagnosis of Cancer: Issues of Spirituality
The Holocaust & the Churches
Questions of Faith: A Jewish/Catholic/Muslim Dialogue
Fighting Bias, Bigotry and Racism
Ethics & Morality in Business - Is It All About Money?
Whose God Is It, Anyway? A God Squad Presentation for Christians and
Jews
Building a Moral Base in Children
Friendship, Moral Values, and Respecting Individual Differences
Where Spiritual Paths Meet
Appreciation of Diversity
Family Values - Teens & Parents
Spirituality in a Diverse Society
Religious Education conferences
Forgiveness & Forgetting: The spiritual dynamic of forgiveness and its
impact on our spiritual and physical well-being.
Cain, Esau, and Moses - Reducing our rage and improving our souls. The
spiritual value of controlling our anger.
Living in the hyphen - or the future of the Judeo/Christian traditions.
The Gospel .. the Torah - How to learn about God and Spirituality
