Irv Goldfein is a consultant and producer of Judaic reference and academic software and media, and an editor and literary agent for books in Judaica. He is the founder of The Jewish Forum, and was one of the partners who created the Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM Edition. He holds a nearly-useless Ph.D. in education. Too many years ago he was a principal and headmaster of Jewish schools and taught at the University of Rochester. A native Torontonian, he has temporarily lived in Michigan for 37 years, with his much-needed psychotherapist wife Janice. All his children and grandchildren live in New York and DC.