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Ruth Zuria completed her army service, and is now learning again at Midreshet Lindenbaum. Her mother, Anat Zuria, directed the movies “Tehora” and “Mekudeshet.”

Shayna B Finman is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle and served as the first female intern of Congregation Ramath Orah in New York. Growing up she had the privilege of being a student of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z”l. She currently works as JOFA’s programming coordinator.

Channa Lockshin Bob teaches Gemara and Halakha at Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. She is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle.

Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel of Nof Ayalon holds a B.A. in Biology from Bar Ilan University. She studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum and in the MaTaN Talmud Program before being accepted to Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Yoatzot Halacha Program. In addition to her work on Nishmat’s Golda Koschitzky Women’s Halachic Hotline, she teaches Talmud at Hebrew University’s “Chavruta”

Ross Singer is the former Rabbi of Shaarey Tefillah Synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is currently a Jerusalem Fellow.

Rena Gopin-Wolf has been teaching Tanakh for thirtytwo years at the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls. She earned a B.A. from Bar-Ilan University and a master’s degree in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University

Rabbi Michael Bleicher, LSW, is the outreach coordinator for Project S.A.R.A.H. and a psychotherapist at Jewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic. 

Elke Stein, M.S., LCSW, a graduate of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, is the director of domestic violence and sexual assault services at Project S.A.R.A.H.

Dr. Michael Salamon is a psychologist, researcher, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is the director of ADC Psychological Services and a consulting psychologist at North Shore–LIJ Health System, and is the author of Abuse in the Jewish Community (Urim Publications, 2011).

Ann Luban, MSW, MAJCS, is a program specialist and synagogue community partnership liaison at Jewish Child & Family Services in Chicago.