Dr. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, where he has served as the Assistant Director of the university’s Centre for Jewish Studies and has introduced courses on Jewish art. Originally from New York, Adam attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and then completed his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 1995. He has worked in the Manuscripts Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum and taught at numerous institutions; he has been a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University and a research fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. The author of numerous articles and books, including the forthcoming Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages, Adam’s research interests focus on many aspects of medieval illuminated manuscripts, including the use of visual culture in the construction of identity and as a tool in Christian-Jewish polemics. With Linda Safran, he is the current editor of Gesta, the biannual journal of the International Center of Medieval Art.

Aharon Appelfeld is one of Israel's foremost living Hebrew-language authors, despite the fact that he did not learn the language until he was a teenager. His mother tongue is German, but he also understands Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, English and Italian. With his subject matter revolving around the Holocaust and the sufferings of the Jews in Europe, he could not bring himself to write in German. He chose Hebrew as his literary vehicle for its succinctness and biblical imagery.

Ahron Horovitz is the director of the City of David Institute for Jerusalem Studies and head of Israel's Ministry of Tourism School for Tour Guides - Derech Eretz. He resides in the City of David with his wife Esther and their six children.

Ariel Blacher and her family made Aliyah from Riverdale, N.Y., in 2006, with the help of Nefesh b'Nefesh.

Gila Makes Aliyah is Blacher’s first book. The author drew upon her own family’s Aliyah experience in the writing of her book, in the hope it would assist other families prepare for and experience all the richness of the Aliyah process. Blacher proudly notes that she is the mother of “five extraordinary children who easily adjusted to Israeli life.” The family enjoys life in Israel and have surrounded themselves with “a lifetime supply of great books, laughter and adventure.” 

Asael Lubotzky was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and grew up in the town of Efrat. He studied at the Hesder Yeshiva in Ma’ale Adumim, before enlisting in the IDF, where he served as platoon commander in the Fifty-First Battalion of the Golani Brigade. Lubotzky led his troops fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, until his severe injury in the Second Lebanon War. Following a lengthy and difficult rehabilita­tion, he took up studies at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and today works as a physician at Shaare Zedek Medical Center Jerusalem. In addition, Lubotzky addresses IDF units, as well as groups from Israel and abroad, on the subjects of Zionism, cour­age, and fortitude. He lives in Jerusalem, is married to Avital, and has three children.

Avi Rat h is an Israeli author, educator, and media figure. He presented the weekly parashat shavua program on Israel’s Channel 1, edited the Israeli Talmud series, and has taught Judaism, history, and education in several institutions. Rath is director of community strategies at Medison Pharma, and a regular contributor to a number of local publications.

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Chaim Natan Firszt was born in Israel and at a young age moved with his family to Montreal, Canada. In Montreal, he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Concordia University, followed by a Teaching Diploma in English and a Master of Education Degree from McGill University.

During his years of teaching in Montreal, the author learned Torah with the Rosh Yeshiva of Belz. The Torah learning became the inspiration for a series of five illustrated and captioned books based on the weekly Torah readings. Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung, z”tl, the Chief Rabbi of Montreal at the time, wrote an approbation for the books. Years later, in Israel, Rabbi Moshe Halbershtam, z”tl, who was then a Dayan of the Beis Din of the Eidah Charedis Yerushalayim, wrote an additional approbation for the books.

Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum, a native of Denmark, is founder and director of Midreshet B'erot Bat Ayin: Holistic Torah for Women on the Land. She holds a Bachelor of Education in Bible and Jewish Philosophy from Michlala Jerusalem College for Women, and a Masters of Art in Jewish History from Touro College. Rebbetzin Chana Bracha creates curricula emphasizing women's spiritual empowerment through traditional Torah values. In 2010 she published her first book, Women at the Crossroads: A Woman’s Perspective on the Weekly Torah Portion. Her second book, Ruth: Gleaning the Fallen Sparks was published in 2012, and her third book, The Seven Fruits of the Land of Israel, was published by Menorah Books in 2014. The Rebbetzin also practices EmunaHealing as a gifted spiritual healer through Emunah, tefilah and energy work. Chana Bracha has a married son and several granddaughters, and lives with her husband and younger son on the Land of the Judean Hills, Israel.

Daniel Chertoff worked in the investment industry in both the United States and Israel as an analyst, as financial communications counsel, and as a venture capitalist. Before discovering the cache of letters, he was happily writing his doctoral dissertation in English literature at the Hebrew University. He is an associate editor of Partial Answers, an academic journal of literature and the history of ideas. Daniel and his wife, Arlene, live in Jerusalem.

Daniel Retter studied Talmud under the Mattesdorfer Rav z’l, and his son in law Rav Binyomin Paler z’l and teaches a daily Daf Yomi class at the Young Israel of Riverdale, NY since 1989. Mr. Retter practices international business, real estate, and immigration law, as counsel to Herrick Feinstein, LLP, in New York City.

Daniel Rogov (pen name of David Joroff ) (1935 - 2011) was born in Brooklyn New York and grew up in Borough Park. After graduating from high school in the early 1960s, he moved to Paris. He began his career writing food and wine articles for American magazines and newspapers. In December 1976, he moved to Israel and wrote book and restaurant reviews for the Jerusalem Post. In 1984 he started contributing to Haaretz newspaper and had a weekly column on food and restaurants, and later on a weekly column on wine as well. In 2010 Rogov retired from his function as restaurant critic of Haaretz but continued to write about wine until his death.

He was Israel's most influential wine critic.

Dr. Daniel Rose is a British-born educator with a background in informal and formal Jewish education in the UK, the US, and Israel. As Director of Educational Projects for Koren Publishers, Daniel was series editor and core contributor to the Koren Magerman Educational Siddurim series The series consists of four educational siddurim designed to make tefilla education more meaningful, and are used by day schools and synagogues around the world. Daniel is currently an independent educational consultant for various educational agencies, including Koren Publishers and the Office of Rabbi Sacks, where he has developed educational resources based on the thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks such as the Ten Paths curriculum and the Family Edition of the weekly Covenant & Conversation. Daniel lives in Modi’in with his wife and five children.

David Berger is Ruth and I. Lewis Gor­don Professor of Jewish History and Dean at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University.

David L. Sachs received his B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. He currently works as an energy engineer at Bright Power Inc. specializing in building energy efficiency. David also studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar where he discovered his love for Torah learning. He has applied his methodical engineering background to Torah study in creating The Gemara Card.

Dr. Dov S. Zakheim was Under Secretary of Defense (2001–2004) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1985–87) of the United States. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a D.Phil. from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and received rabbinic ordination from the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Walkin. A three-time recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense’s highest civilian award, he is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He lectures internationally on American national security issues, Jewish history, and topics in Halakha.

Dr. Bryna Jocheved Levy is one of the most esteemed Bible teachers in Israel and throughout the world. She is also a leader in the movement for women's Torah studies, and was the first woman awarded a doctoral degree in Biblical Studies by Yeshiva University. Dr. Levy teaches Bible at Matan: the Women's Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem, and Hebrew University's Melton School of Jewish Education. Over the years, Dr. Levy has taught Bible at many well-known institutions, including: Midreshet Moriah, Jerusalem; the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, Yeshiva University; Michlala-Jerusalem College for Women; Touro College, in the New York and Jerusalem campuses; Yeshiva University High School for Girls, New York; as well as teaching Hebrew Language at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

DR. ERICA BROWN is an associate professor at George Washington University and the director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of eleven books on leadership, Bible, and spirituality, including Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death, which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places, and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe. She writes a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week and has blogged for JTA, Psychology Today, and Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith.” She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. Brown was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow, and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education.

DR. GABRIEL H. COHN is an educator and biblical scholar at Bar Ilan University, specializing in literary exegesis of the Bible and the study of midrashic commentaries. In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Cohn was the long-time head of Machon Gold, a teacher’s college for women for the Diaspora. Through his teaching and writing, he has contributed significantly to the in-depth study and meaningful understanding of biblical texts. Dr. Cohn has published widely in multiple languages on the subjects of Biblical interpretation, ethics and education, and is the editor of Prayer in Judaism: Continuity and Change and Pirke Nehama, a memorial book on the exegetical work of Prof. Nehama Leibowitz.

Jeffrey S. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman professor of American Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He is the author or editor of twenty books. His most recent work is The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community (2016).

Dr. Menachem Gottesman founded the Mercaz L’Mida Dati (Meled) Learning Center High School in Jerusalem after an extensive career in academia, research in the social sciences, as well as in education, and clinical consultation, both in the U.S. and Israel. After receiving a B.A. in Psychology from Yeshiva University in New York, he completed both an M.A. degree in Education and a Ph.D. in Child Development and Family Relations from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Dr. Gottesman made Aliyah to Israel with his wife, Leah, and their three children in 1977, where they later made their home in the community of Efrat, south of Jerusalem,

Professor Mordechai Rotenberg is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chair of the Rotenberg Institute for Jewish Psychology, and the author of thirteen books. In 2009, he won the Israel Prize for his pioneering work in the field of Jewish psychology. His works are read worldwide, inspiring educators and therapists to apply the principles of Tzimtzum to their therapeutic methods.

Dr. Stu Halpern is Senior Advisor to the Provost of Yeshiva University, and is responsible for developing and executing interdisciplinary thought-projects and educational and communal initiatives. During his 12 years at Yeshiva University, Dr. Halpern has served in various capacities, including Chief of Staff to the President, Assistant Director of The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, and as an Instructor in Bible.

Dr. Halpern received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Psychology in Education from Teachers College at Columbia University, an MA in Bible from Revel, an MBA in Nonprofit Management from Touro University, an EdD from the Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration, and rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Chaim Brovender. He has edited or co-edited 14 books, including Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity and Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought, and has lectured in synagogues, Hillels and adult Jewish educational settings across the U.S.

DR. SUSAN WEINGARTEN is an archaeologist and historian. She was born in England, studied at Oxford University, and moved to Israel in 1973. After raising five children, she went on to study Classical Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, where she received her PhD. She has worked for many years as part of the research team of the Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair for Jewish Studies, headed by Prof. Aharon Oppenheimer.

As a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Weingarten began to concentrate on the history of Jewish food, more specifically on food in talmudic literature. She has published over forty papers in journals such as the Journal of Jewish Studies, Revue des Études Juives, and Food and History. She received the Sophie Coe Prize in Food History at the 2003 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford University Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Dr. Yael Ziegler is a lecturer in Bible at Herzog Academic College and at Matan Jerusalem, and author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative. A graduate of Stern College and Bar-Ilan University, she lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Europe, and South Africa. Dr. Ziegler resides in Alon Shevut, Israel, with her husband and their five children.

Elliot Jager was raised on New York City’s Lower East Side, attended Mesiftha Tiffereth Jerusalem, Brooklyn College, and New York University. He worked as a manager in New York City government before moving to Israel. Jager’s journalism experience includes eleven years as a senior editor at The Jerusalem Post. He was the founding managing editor of Jewish Ideas Daily. Jager now contributes regularly to Newsmax. For over a decade, he was also an adjunct professor of Politics at NYU, Rutgers, Hofstra, Baruch, and Brooklyn College. Jager lives in Jerusalem with his wife Lisa Clayton.

Elyashiv Reichner, a resident of the Negev city of Yeruĥam and a graduate of its yeshivat hesder, is a journalist at the newspaper Makor Rishon. His most recent book is The Orange Campaign: The Fight for Gush Katif [Hebrew].

Enya Tamar Keshet was born in Pardes Hanna, Israel, and studied at the Hebrew University and the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She works in paper cutting, calligraphy and color illumination enhanced by gold leaf, all hand-crafted on parchment. She has exhibited extensively in Israel and the US, where her Megillot, ketubot, and other art pieces have become valued collectibles.

Erez Zadok is a comic book artist, illustrator and caricaturist. Erez received his degree in Visual Communications from the worldrenowned Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, Israel. Following graduation, Erez gained immediate notice for his Israeli comics publications, Tranquillo and Miko Bel: Master of Potions. Erez and Gorf collaborated with Butch Hartman (“Fairly Odd Parents”, Nickelodeon) to create 3 O’Clock Club, an original comics series published by Lion Forge Comics. Erez produces “Bundle of Joya,” his autobiographical comic strip released weekly on Instagram.

Erez lives in Israel with wife, Lina, and his daughter May Ze’ela. (And Joya, the dog.)

Dr. Ernst Israel Bornstein was born in Zawiercie, a city in the Silesian province of southern Poland (60 km from Auschwitz) on the 26 November 1922. He was the oldest of four children. He was educated in Jewish schools and won a national essay prize at the age of fifteen. He was incarcerated in seven concentration camps, enduring the infamous “death march” until finally being liberated by American soldiers near Lake Starnberg in Bavaria on 30 April 1945. Thereafter, he lived in Munich, Germany, studied at the University of Munich graduating as a Dentist (Dr. Med Dent) in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine (Dr. Med) in 1958. He practiced as an oral surgeon. He married Renée (née Koenig) on the 20 December 1964 and they had three children, Noemie (Lopian) born August 1966, Muriel (Davis) born July 1967, and Asher Alain born May 1971. Dr. Bornstein died on the 14 August 1978 aged 55.

Dr. Bornstein was the founder of the Association of Ex-Concentration Camp Inmates in Munich, whose chairman he remained until he died, was a member of the executive committee of the Jewish Community in Munich and chairman of the Consortium of Associations of Persecutees in Bavaria. He originally wrote this book, “Die Lange Nacht” (The Long Night) shortly after the War, setting out his Holocaust experiences, whilst his memories were fresh and his feelings raw. This book was originally published in Germany, in 1967.

Esty Frankel-Fersel was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn NY. She attended Bais Yacov through high school with a year of seminary in Israel. As a young adolescent, Esty joined a local art school where, for the next 15 years, she took instructional classes, learning the skills of copying and reproducing works of art with oil on canvas. She attended Brooklyn College and Wurzweiler School of Social Work earning an MSW. While dealing with daily responsibility and stressors, Esty always found comfort in drawing and painting. In 2006, Esty came up with the idea of adding an image of a family performing the Tashlich ceremony to Monet’s famous “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lillies.” This led to more “converted” paintings and to her ultimate accumulation of over 60 works of art with Jewish twists and Yiddish expressions through the arts – and to the publication of Converted Masters. Esty currently divides her time, residing in both Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia and West Orange, NJ.

Gerald J. Blidstein is Professor Emeri­tus at Ben-Gurion University, where he served as Hubert Professor of Jewish Law and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

Gershon Shaked (1929–2006) was an Israeli scholar and critic of Hebrew literature. Born Gerhard Mandel in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine alone in 1939, and was later followed by his parents. He attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He hebraicized his surname to "Shaked" (almond). He was married to Malka, and had two daughters. In 1950, Shaked studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a doctorate in Hebrew literature in 1964 and later chaired the Department of Hebrew Literature. In addition to his many publications in Hebrew, he also wrote more than thirty books of criticism in other languages.

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Hillel Halkin is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970.
Halkin translates Hebrew and Yiddish literature into English. He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev.

Halkin writes frequently on Israel and Jewish culture and politics. His articles have been published in Commentary, The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post and other publications. Under the pseudonym "Philologos," he writes a bi-weekly column on Jewish languagesin Mosaic Magazine. He is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books. 

Izzy Pludwinski has been working as a professional calligrapher since 1980. He has exhibited throughout Israel and has given two one-man shows in London. Internationally recognized, he was invited to Wales to work on the Hebrew text for the St. John's Bible, and has taught Hebrew Calligraphy in Jerusalem for over 15 years.

He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and daughters.

Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University and Senior Scholar at its Center for the Jewish Future.

Joe Lieberman was a US senator from Connecticut for twenty-four years. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee. In 2000, he was the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States. Now senior counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres LLP in New York and Chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), Senator Lieberman is the author of seven books on history, government, law, and religion, including The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath. He is married to Hadassah Freilich Lieberman. They have four children and eleven grandchildren.

JORDAN B. GORFINKEL – Gorf – is a cartoonist, musician, writer, producer and proud husband and father of four children. For nearly a decade Gorf was a manager of the Batman franchise at DC Comics, where his creations serve as inspiration for television, film, games and more. Gorf’s creative studio, Avalanche Comics Entertainment, produces custom content for corporations, nonprofits and entertainment companies. As a cartoonist, Gorf draws JewishCartoon.com, the weekly comic strip featured in newspapers and online. His Jewish Cartoon Workshop, for schools and camps, gets participants of all ages and backgrounds drawing comics about the Torah portion of the week and other Jewish themes, which he then collects into a comic book for everyone to enjoy and learn from. Gorf serves as a speaker and artist-in-residence for synagogues, Passover retreats and fundraising events.

Grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where both his grandfathers were Chassidic rebbes. He continued his Talmudic studies in rabbinical school and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University.

Halberstam has taught at NYU and Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a professor at BCC/City University of New York, where he teaches philosophy and communications.

He is a frequent guest on television and National Public Radio, and a speaker for a wide array of audiences on philosophy, Judaism, and current social issues.

Judy Klitsner is a senior lecturer at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where she has been teaching Bible and biblical exegesis for more than two decades.  A disciple of the great Torah teacher Nechama Leibowitz, Judy has had a profound impact on a generation of students, of whom many now serve as teachers and heads of Jewish studies programs in the US, the UK and Israel. In her teaching and in her writing, Judy weaves together traditional exegesis, modern scholarship and her own original interpretations that are informed by close readings of the biblical text. She lectures internationally at synagogues, campuses and adult education programs that span the denominational spectrum and she holds a visiting lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. Judy’s teaching style is lively, interactive and text-based, and she is particularly fond of uncovering the “vibrant conversation” that takes place between the Bible’s parallel stories.