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Mrs. Bronia Brandman, a Holocaust survivor, lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Tamar Nusbaum is the founder of Ani Tefillah, a Tefillah-enhancement curriculum that imbues the process of prayer with deeper meaning and connection for school-age children, making the experience one that children can look forward to on a daily basis. She has been teaching all grade levels for the past thirty years and specializes in structuring […]

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Avital is delighted to call Cambridge her new home. Avital works at Dana-Farber’s Genetics and Prevention Division as a genetic testing coordinator and also serves as the clergy intern for the Orthodox students at Harvard Hillel. After receiving her B.A. in biology at Stern College, Avital spent a year studying Yeshiva University’s […]

Mrs. Eliana Sohn Cohen is a Project Manager for the OU Women’s Initiative. Before joining the Women’s Initiative in January 2019, Eliana worked for Yeshiva University, first as a Project Coordinator for the YU School Partnership’s professional development division and then as the Programs Manager for Alumni Relations and Special Projects on the Yeshiva University campus in Jerusalem. She earned a BA in English […]

Rebbetzin Sima Becker earned a Teacher’s Certificate from Beth Jacob Seminary (BJJ) in Jerusalem and worked as a computer programmer on Wall Street before moving to Miami 35 years ago. She and her husband, Rabbi Hershel Becker are Rabbi and Rebbetzin at Young Israel of Kendall in Pinecrest, Florida. She is a founding director of Jewish Blueprints, an outreach […]

Nechama Price is a Senior Lecturer of Bible and Judaic Studies at Stern College for Women. She is the Director of Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS). In addition, she is certified as Yoetzet Halacha in the inaugural class of Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows Program, and works as […]

Liz Diament has been a senior museum educator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC for eighteen years where she is passionate about her work with teachers, helping them integrate art and critical thinking into the curriculum.  At the Gallery she manages the school and general public tour program and the volunteers who teach […]

Becky Katz teachers Navi and Halacha at Yeshivat Noam. She is a member of numerous boards including Project Ezrah, Rinat Yisael, OU Women’s Initiative and Yeshivat Noam. Becky lives in Teaneck, New Jersey with her husband Avi and four children.

Zoë Lang is an educator who brings her enthusiasm for Jewish text to students of all ages. She is on the faculty of Maimonides School in Brookline, MA, where she teaches Jewish and Israeli history. Zoë also teaches a weekly parshah shiur and has contributed articles to the Times of Israel. In 2021, she was […]

Yoni Schlussel is an artist, writer, and an educator. She teaches at Torah Academy of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Jewish Day School. She also directs the women’s programming for Congregation Beth Jehudah and is on the board of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Her writing has been published in the Jewish Press, Binah and Ami magazines and […]