As founder of the Soviet-American Forum, Rabbi Sheldon Wayne Moss, D.D., Ph.D., convened the five international human rights conferences between East and West during Perestroika. With his wife, he founded Sunburst Rabbinic Retreat Center, a national think tank in Boulder, Colorado. The couple has been married 29 years, have four children, and eight grandchildren. He is the Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom, northwest of Phoenix, and is president of the Area Ministerial Association.