Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Aaron Amit is a faculty member of the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of a volume of critical commentary on the Talmud and of numerous scholarly articles dealing with the influence of contemporary Greco-Roman culture and language on rabbinic literature, the textual transmission of the Babylonian Talmud and the history of halakhah. amitaa@mail.biu.ac.il
Hanoch Ben-Pazi teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and in the Department of Jewish Culture at the Kibbutzim College of Education. benpazi.hanoch@gmail.com
Marla Brettschneider is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, with a joint appointment in Political Science and Women’s Studies. She serves as Coordinator of the UNH Women’s Studies Program. Brettschneider is a Jewish feminist activist and has published widely on Jewish feminist politics, including her award-winning books The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives (2006) and the edited volume The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism (1996). Marla.Brettschneider@unh.edu
Tova Ganzel is Assistant Director of the Midrasha (for Women) and a lecturer in the Department of Bible Studies at Bar-Ilan University. She is one of the first graduates of the Nishmat Keren Ariel program for yo‘atzot halakhah (women’s halakhic advisors). ganzelct@yahoo.com
Nora Gold is a writer and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net, an online literary journal. Her own fiction, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was short-listed for a national award. She is an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her research includes a national study of Canadian Jewish women and a longitudinal study of Toronto Jewish girls, both focusing on participants’ experiences of sexism and anti-Semitism. She was a member of the Toronto Yiddish women writers’ study group that resulted in Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (edited by Frieda Forman et al., 1994), the first such collection in English. www.noragold.com
David Golinkin is President of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where he holds the Jerome and Miriam Katzin Chair in Jewish Studies and is also director of the Center for Women in Jewish Law. He has published some 40 monographs and edited volumes and 200 articles, including his book The Status of Women in Jewish Law: Responsa (Hebrew) and the volume Za‘akat Dalot: Halakhic Solutions for the Agunot of our Time (Hebrew), of which he is co-editor. Golinkin@schechter.ac.il [End Page 213]
Ronit Irshai is a lecturer in the Gender Studies program at Bar Ilan University and in the Faculty of Law and the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a research fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her fields of research focus on the philosophy of halakhah, modern halakhah, and bio-ethics in gendered contexts. Her book Fertility, Gender and Halakhah is forthcoming from Brandeis University Press. She is active in Kolech: Religious Women’s Forum. irshay@013net.net
Norma Baumel Joseph is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Director of the Women and Religion specialization, and an Associate of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the legal decisions of Rabbi Moses Feinstein as they describe and delineate separate spheres for women in the Jewish community. She appeared in and was consultant to the films Half the Kingdom and Untying the Bonds . . . Jewish Divorce. While continuing her work on Jewish law, religion and gender, she added an anthropological study on food, identity and gender to her repertoire. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and has published in both fields of her research. norma.joseph@alcor.concordia.ca
Alan Jotkowitz is Director of the Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics and a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a Senior Physician at Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva. ajotkowitz@hotmail.com
Debby Koren writes and teaches about topics in Talmud...
