Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Brenda E. Brasher is a Visiting Professor in Sociology at Tulane University. A former Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine, she is the author of Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power (Rutgers University Press, 1998), and Give Me That Online Religion (Jossey-Bass, 2001). She was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (Routledge, 2001) and is the editor of the Millennialism and Society series for Equinox Press. Her recent research assessed post-Katrina communal identity in the Greater New Orleans Jewish community. bebrasher@gmail.com
Shifra Bronznick is the founding President of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, an initiative that has been selected annually by Slingshot as one of the fifty most innovative and effective Jewish organizations, and is co-author, with Didi Goldenhar and Martin Linsky, of Leveling the Playing Field: Advancing Women in Jewish Organizational Life (2008). She is the key investigator of Visioning Justice, a long-term action research project on Jewish social justice commissioned by the Nathan Cummings Foundation; the leadership strategist to the White House Project virtually since its inception; and a senior fellow at the NYU Research Center for Leadership in Action of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches strategic leadership in the Executive Masters in Public Administration program. bronznick@betterorg.com
Luisa Levi D’Ancona Modena is a post-doctoral researcher in the Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since completing her doctorate at Cambridge University on the nineteenth-century European Jewish bourgeoisie, she has researched and published several articles on Italian and European Jewish philanthropy, past and present. luisalevidancona@gmail.com
Barbara Dobkin, current chair of the American Jewish World Service board of trustees and its executive committee, is a funder, activist and leader in the social justice arena. She is a founding board member of the White House Project; founding chair of the Jewish Women’s Archive; founding chair of Ma‘yan, the Jewish Women’s Project of the JCC in Manhattan; founding chair of the Hadassah Foundation; and a founding board member of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community. She has served on the boards of, among others, the New Israel Fund; the Women Donors Network; the Jewish Funders Network; Kolot: the Gender Studies Institute of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; the Women’s Funding Network; and American Friends of the Israel Women’s Network.
Sylvia Barack Fishman is Chair of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. She is also Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and a Faculty Affiliate of Brandeis University’s English Department and its Cohen Center for Modern Jewish [End Page 177] Studies. She is the author of seven books and numerous monographs and articles, on contemporary Jewish life and culture, changing gender roles and Jewish family structures, Jewish education, and Jewish literature and film. Her most recent book is The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness (Jewish Lights, 2007). fishman@brandeis.edu
Idana Goldberg received her doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania. She works professionally in the Jewish non-profit sector while continuing her academic work as an independent scholar. idanag@gmail.com
Deborah Greniman, a Jerusalem-based editor, translator and writer, is Managing Editor of Nashim and Senior Editor of English-language scholarly publications at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her translation of Ada Rapoport-Albert’s book on women in the Sabbatean movement is forthcoming from the Littman Library. She is a former board member of the Israel Association of Feminist and Gender Studies. nashim@schechter.ac.il
Naḥem Ilan is Professor of Jewish Studies in the graduate program at the Lander Institute in Jerusalem. His principal field is interdisciplinary research (language, literature, history and thought) of Judeo-Arabic texts composed in the Middle Ages and the modern era. anilan@zahav.net.il
Rachael Kamel is a longtime activist in feminist and antiwar organizations. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. rkamel@temple.edu
Carol Goodman Kaufman, a psychologist, is the author of Sins of Omission: The Jewish Community’s...
