Laura Arnold Leibman’s work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life.  She is the author numerous articles as well as Indian Converts (Massachusetts, 2008), Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life (London, 2012), and The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (New York, 2020). Her current book project uses the family of Sarah Rodrigues Brandon to retell the story of multiracial Jews in early America.

Sarah Imhoff is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, disability, and American religion. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana, 2017).

Jodi Magness (www.JodiMagness.org) is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an archaeologist specializing in ancient Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods. Her most recent book is Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth (Princeton University Press, 2019).

Rachel Adelman is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Boston’s Hebrew College. She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Brill 2009) and The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Phoenix, 2015). Adelman is now working on a new book, Daughters in Danger from the Hebrew Bible to Modern Midrash (forthcoming, Sheffield Phoenix Press).

Sarah E.G. Fein is a PhD candidate in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Her areas of interest include Hebrew Bible, Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity, and women and gender studies. Fein’s dissertation is on the reception history of biblical mothers in early Jewish art and literature. She lives in Newton, MA, with her husband and daughter.

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides studies American Judaism and is president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association. She teaches in the English Department at Missouri State University.

Dr. Deborah Skolnick Einhorn served as Hebrew College’s Associate Dean of Jewish Education and Jewish Studies until 2020. That year, she began her role as Head of School at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital.  Deborah’s Ph.D. from Brandeis focused on American Jewish Life, particularly the study of Jewish women’s philanthropy and leadership.

Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk is an historian and journalist. She obtained her PhD at the Institute for East-European History at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are women’s and gender history in the 19th and 20th century in Central Eastern Europe, Polish-Jewish history, violence, and the history of emotion.

Eve Levavi Feinstein holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is the author of Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible. She works as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay area.

Singing with her family and managing Flory Jagoda’s appearances have been a central part of Betty Jagoda Murphy’s life. A dance and drama major with a BA from Adelphi University and a successful career as an entrepreneur and inventor, Murphy serves on several non-profit boards focused on the arts, music and children. Now a Nona herself to Liam and his sister Flory, she is striving to transfer her mother’s commitment and love for the Sephardic culture and traditions to the next generation.

Rachel Amado Bortnick is a Sephardic Jew born and raised in Izmir Turkey, now residing in Dallas. A retired ESOL teacher, she is an active promoter of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and Sephardic culture. In 1999 she founded the online correspondence group Ladinokomunita, presently with over 1500 members worldwide, and is featured in the 1988 documentary by Bonnie Burt, “Trees Cry for Rain: a Sephardic Journey.”

Helene Herman Krupnick is an adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at Stockton University. She received her Doctor of Hebrew Literature (DHL) degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Modern Jewish Studies. Her dissertation, entitled "The New-ish Jewish Way of Death," examines the influence of contemporary American culture on the death, funeral and mourning practices of liberal American Jews.

Joshua Alfaro is a researcher at the Universität Salzburg, Austria. He has written on the Book of Esther and other books of the Bible from the Persian and Hellenistic periods.

Monica Osborne is the author of The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma and has written for Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Forward, and others. She has taught at UCLA, Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, Purdue University, and the 92nd Street Y. She is a columnist at The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.

Geraldine Gudefin is a modern Jewish historian from France. She holds a BA in History from Sorbonne-Paris IV, an MA in History from Yale, and a PhD in History from Brandeis University. Her research interests include French and American Jewish history; Jewish migration history; gender history; and legal pluralism in comparative perspective.

Hannah Peaceman studied philosophy and social sciences in Marburg, London, and Jena. Currently she is finishing her PhD in the field of Jewish Political Philosophy at University of Erfurt. Hannah is founder and editor of the Jewish-German journal Jalta.

Boaz Hagin is chair of the undergraduate and graduate film studies programs at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, and co-editor of the Depth of Field book series in film studies published by the Steve Tisch School with Am Oved. He is the author of Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema (2010), co-author with Thomas Elsaesser of Memory, Trauma, and Fantasy in American Cinema (2012), and co-editor of Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (2011) and Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema (2013).