Star-Crossed: How Jewish Hospitals Ceded Power to Catholic Health Care in the United States

Ronit Y. Stahl is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion. Her work focuses on religious pluralism in American society, and she is the author of the award-winning book Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2017). Her current book project, titled Troubling Conscience: Religious Freedom and Health Care in Modern America, explores the tension between pluralism and religious freedom through the history of religious hospitals.