Contributors
- Contributors
Dror Abend-David
Dror Abend-David is chair of the English program at Ohalo College in Katzrin, and teaches Communication, Translation and Literature at Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Dror graduated with a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from New York University in 2001. He has published both academic and creative materials, and is now working on a rather convoluted theory of gendered literature. He has a daughter. He can be reached at d.abend.1@alumni.nyu.edu and http://homepages.nyu.edu/~da2137.
Sarah Antine
Sarah Antine creates opportunities for women and girls to participate in Jewish rituals by teaching cantillation and helps organize the women's tefillah groups that meet at her shul. She received an MFA from Hunter College. Her poetry has appeared in Big City Lit, Lilith Magazine, Bridges, pms: poem memoir story and in, Torah: A Woman's Commentary. She is poet-in-residence at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. She lives in Potomac with her husband and two daughters. She can be reached at casesarasara@gmail.com. [End Page 122]
Henri/etta Bensussen
Henri Bensussen (gardnrz2@mcn.org) is published in various journals, including Blue Mesa Review; Eclipse; Sinister Wisdom; and Sephardic-American Voices (Matza, ed.). She's an active member of the Mendocino coast writing community in California, serves on the board of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, and chairs its Education Task Force. In a Mussar (ethics) study group, she's learning patience (savlanut) and equanimity (menuchat ha-nefesh). Barely literate in Judaism, she's curious about its history and how women have found a place within it, and enjoys its argumentative, philosophical nature.
Rachel Amado Bortnick
Rachel, recently retired ESOL teacher in Dallas, is a native of Izmir, Turkey. She teaches, writes and lectures about Sephardic culture and Ladino, and is featured in Trees Cry for Rain; a Sephardic Journey, a film produced by Bonnie Burt. She was president of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society 1996-98, and has led Jewish tours of Turkey. In 1999 Rachel founded the Ladino-only Internet group Ladinokomunita (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ladinokomunita/) which today has over 1200 members from 35 countries. You can e-mail Rachel at bortnickra@sbcglobal.net.
Jennifer Burd
Jennifer Burd has lived and worked in many parts of the United States and currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has worked as an editor, instructional designer, writing instructor, and journalist. Burd received her BA in English and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and she has had poetry published in numerous journals and in the anthology Nobody's Orphan Child. She is also the author of a book of creative nonfiction, Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men & Women of Lenawee County, Michigan (Bottom Dog Press, Inc., 2009, with photographs by Lad Strayer), based on her experiences reporting on local homelessness for the Adrian, Michigan, Daily Telegram newspaper. Her first book of poetry, Body and Echo, was published by Plain View Press in April, 2010. Burd currently works as an editor and writer for HighScope Educational Research Foundation in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Burd can be reached at jburd@tc3net.com.
Michele F. Cooper
Michele F. Cooper is the author of three books including Posting the Watch (WordTech, 2008) and founding editor of the Newport Review, Crone's Nest, and the Premier Poets chapbook series. She won Poetry Canada's Rhymed Poetry Competition and the TallGrass Poetry Competition. She recently left the outer edge of a horse farm in Portsmouth, RI, spent a year in Providence, and now writes and works as a book editor in the Cleveland area.
Wendy Dickstein
Wendy Dickstein is a writer and poet who was born in Connecticut, grew up in Australia, and has lived in India and England before settling in Jerusalem twenty years ago. She has published poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction in the United States, Australia, Israel and in cyberspace [End Page 123] and is working on a memoir project with two other feminist Jewish women. Wendy can be reached at wendy.dickstein@gmail.com.
Berenice Malka Fisher
Berenice Malka Fisher taught women's studies and educational...
