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Felicia Epstein has lectured on biblical and midrashic textual analysis in Israel and continues to teach in London, where she also works as a lawyer specializing in employment and discrimination law. She did graduate work on the Bible at Bar-Ilan University, focusing on commentaries and comparative legal institutions. She was a co-founder of the Kol

Deborah Wenger, a freelance editor living in Atlanta, is the publications manager of the Jofa Journal.

Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ph.D., is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life, Emerita, at Brandeis University. The author of eight books and numerous articles, she received the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished social scientific publications from the ASSJ in 2014. Currently, she writes the annual survey of “American Jews and the Domestic

Blu Greenberg is the founder and first president of Jofa and founder and past president of the International Beit Din.

Rabbanit Talia Weisberg is a community builder and teacher of Torah who is pursuing a Ph.D. in religion at Boston University. She received semikhah from Yeshivat Maharat and holds an AB in religion from Harvard University.

Ilana Kurshan is the author of If All the Seas Were Ink, published by St. Martin’s Press.

Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne is a writer of Neurodivergent Torah, a lover of complicated halakhic questions, and a graduate of Yeshivat Maharat, where she currently serves as a teacher and the director of academic affairs. She is also a fiber artist, newbie gardener, and resident of Riverdale, along with her husband and two children.

Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky is a career educator who teaches Jewish text and mathematics at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD. She received her semikha from Yeshivat Maharat

Rav Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy is the Rosh Beit Midrash at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, a yeshiva that embraces Jews of all genders and religious observances. She teaches Talmud, Halakhah, Mussar and Social Justice.

Rabbi Maya Resnikoff is the Chevruta Supervisor at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and an active homeschool educator for her three children.