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Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is an attorney at Arnold & Porter.

Dr. Ilana Blumberg is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. In the fall, she will be teaching a course on ”Women and the Bible“ for the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at U of M. Dr. Devora Steinmetz is the founder of the Beit Rabban Center for Research and Education

Leebie Mallin is in her second year of Drisha’s Scholars Circle. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stern College, an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia and an M.A. in Jewish History from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.

Bruce N. Goldberger is an attorney in Manhattan. He is a member of the New Generations Steering Committee of the New Israel Fund and a member of the Board of the Judaism and Democracy Action Alliance of North America, Inc. Esther Sperber is an architect with DZO Architectures of Brooklyn.

Deborah Shapira, who was until recently, a teacher at Beit Rabban in New York City, is a full-time mom to a six month old daughter. Barry Stern is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Manhattan and serves on the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Paul Serkin is a computer consultant who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He and his wife are the proud parents of three children.

Mendel Shapiro has rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and is an attorney practicing law in Jerusalem.

Joel B. Wolowelsky is the author of Women, Jewish Law and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-Feminist Age (Ktav Publishing House, 1997) and teaches at the Yeshivah of Flatbush.

Mordecai Hurwich-Kehat came to Israel at the age of 10 when his family made aliyah in 1968. He served in the Israeli Air Force for twenty two years, and is now a partner in Koshertreks. He and his family live in Jersualem.

Rabbi Aryeh Frimer is Ethel and David Resnick Professor of Active Oxygen Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University. The author would like to acknowledge the important contributions made to his thinking on this subject by Prof. Dov Frimer and Dr. Joel Wolowelsky.