Blu Greenberg grew up in a traditional Orthodox household that helped cement her love and commitment to Jewish law. As she grew, so did a growing dissatisfaction with women’s place in traditional Judaism. Her motto, “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater,” led her to examine ways that women can have greater roles within Jewish law; her book On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition inspired a generation of people to embrace being both Orthodox and feminist. Through the founding of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) she carved out the path for Orthodox women to become rabbis and explore greater participation in ritual. Through the creation of the International Beit Din (IBD), she has helped many agunot, women trapped in unwanted marriages.

Sascha Cohen is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Brandeis University, where she studies the relationship between humor and twentieth-century social movements. She teaches in the American Studies department and has written about pop culture for a variety of mainstream publications.

Amy S. Osatinski, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Oklahoma City University. Her publications include Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way and the forthcoming 20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century. Osatinski is also a prolific theatre director, helming dozens of productions for professional, educational, and community theatres.

Andrew Markus, AO, is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a researcher in the field of immigration, race relations, and public opinion. He is the past Director of the university’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.

Ariel Cohen received her PhD from the University of Virginia, her MA degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first historian to write a comprehensive history of American Jewish museums, and her work proposes a new way of thinking about gender, art, and public life. Dr. Cohen is currently an educator at Geffen Academy at UCLA, where she teaches United States History and World History.

Karen Lazar is a lecturer in English and Professional Literacies at the Pius Langa School of Advocacy in Johannesburg, at St Augustine College SA, and at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She was educated at Wits, BA to Phd in English; her MA and PhD are feminist studies of Nadine Gordimer’s work. Since having a fairly severe stroke, Lazar has published in medical humanities, including two books: Hemispheres: inside a stroke (Cape Town: Modjadji Press, 2011) and Echoes (Johannesburg: Quartz Press, 2021). She lives in Johannesburg.

Olga Gershenson is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel; A Study of Cultural Colonization (2005)m The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (2013), and New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre (2024). She edited a collection Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2009) and a special issue of East European Jewish Affairs about new Jewish museums in post-communist Europe. To learn more about her work, see her website.