Since she was in sixth grade, Beth Kissileff has wanted to get paid to read. She has more or less succeeded at that. When she was a sophomore in college, she took a Bible in Literature class and realized that she was probably the least knowledgeable person in the room because her Hebrew was limited. She understood that to know more about Judaism and Jewish texts, she needed the language and the best way to learn a language is immersion.

Beth is the author of Reading Genesis and Questioning Return. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her family. She works as a journalist and writes regularly in Tablet, the Forward, the New York Jewish Week, the New York Times, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Report and others. She has had writer’s residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and highly recommends the residency experience as one of the few material perks writing brings. Her time at Yaddo has been the only time in her life someone made lunch for her so she could write!

Minna Bromberg is a singer, songwriter, rabbi, and voice teacher who lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Rabbi Alan Abrams, and their daughter. Believing that singing both demands and teaches an integration of body, mind, and spirit, Minna teaches voice to rabbis, rabbinical students, and lay people who use their voices in leading prayer. She was ordained in the third cohort of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College and is the coordinator of Hebrew College's Year-in-Israel Program. Minna received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University where her dissertation focused on identity construction in interfaith couples.

Chanel Dubofsky (she/her) lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing on gender, sexuality, reproductive health, and pop culture can be found in New York Magazine, Lilith, Rewire, and others. She is currently working on a novel about American Jews in Israel and Palestine in the aftermath of the 1967 war, and appears in the new documentary My So-Called Selfish Life, about the choice to be childfree. In 2015, she earned an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Follow her on Instagram at @cdubofsky.

Selected as one of the “Most Inspirational Rabbis in America” by The Forward Newspaper, Rabbi Sirbu sits at the leading edge of American Jewish life. She is currently the Director of Clal’s Rabbis Without Borders, a pluralist network of rabbis dedicated to serving the needs of all people through creative use of Jewish wisdom. She is also the founder of RabbiCareers.com, making it easier for rabbis and communities of all types to find each other. Rabbi Sirbu is a regular contributor to several online publications and blogs, and has authored chapters in numerous books. In addition, she manages the Rabbis Without Borders Blog on myjewishlearning.com. Previously, Rabbi Sirbu was the founding director of The MetroWest Jewish Health and Healing Center and the Director of the Center for Jewish Life at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ where she used her skills as a trained hospital chaplain, pastoral counselor, and Jewish educator to foster Jewish community, love of learning, and spiritual growth.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, she holds a master’s degree and ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She tweets at @rabbirebecca and @rwbclal.

JoJo Schwartz Jacobson is a writer, an artist, and a Higher Ed professional. She is based in Boston, and she has been married to Rabbi Suzie Schwartz Jacobson of Temple Israel since 2012. She is a regular contributor to Jewschool, and one of her most recent projects is Drag Torah, where she puts on wigs and drag makeup and discusses feminist perspectives on the parsha each week in short videos. She believes in sustainably working toward Olam Haba, and she believes in not taking life too seriously.

Alex Weissman is currently in his final semester of rabbinical school at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he is grateful to have learned with many feminist rabbis, scholars, and classmates who have taught him deep Torah about fashion and beyond. Currently, he serves as a rabbinic intern with Avodah and the Brandeis Reconstructionist Organization, as well as the Philadelphia Area Coordinator for JOIN for Justice. He has been a community organizer, health educator, counselor, and chaplain. He and his partner Adam live in Philadelphia and both enjoy wearing bright clothing in and out of their rabbinic roles.