Ilana Maymind PhD is a lecturer at the Religious Studies Department at Chapman University. She published Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Lexington Press, 2020), “Exile as ‘Place’ for Empathy” in Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation (Hawai'i Press, 2019), and “Learning from the Past: Exile and Ethics” in Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).