Anat Ishai is a mother of four, married to her soul mate, entrepreneur, social activist, Jewish community lay leader and a Board member for Momentum Canada.
Melissa Abrahams is a medicine weaver and an intuitive healer, a Women's Mysteries teacher, and a ceremonial space-holder. With a great capacity for deep listening and bearing witness, Melissa walks between the worlds, weaving her unique witchy wisdom in the service of liberation and freedom. Melissa is a fully qualified acupuncturist, with degrees in Psychology, Law and Chinese Medicine. Melissa has been training and working in the fields of healing and transformation for more than 20 years, and runs a private healing practice in Windsor, Victoria. Melissa facilitates many sorts of ritual spaces including women’s circles, rights of passage circles, seasonal cycle ceremonies and shamanic drum journeys.
Jackie Fishman is a writer, retired communications professional, mother, grandmother and wife with the good fortune of living near her married children and young grandchildren. She resides in Virginia, USA.
Sandra is a Melbourne Writer. She lived in Israel for over a decade, and had the amazing experiences of working in Herzliya Film Studios, Alexander Muss High School in Israel, and teaching English as a second language to both children and adults. Upon her return to Melbourne, she had the privilege of being Sunday Supervisor at the Jewish Museum of Australia for 18 years.
Sandra is now ensconced in her study, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, putting together the 30 years of writing into Memoirs and Short Stories.
Alice Chipkin is a writer, artist and high school teacher, currently living on Larrakia country in Darwin. She is the co-creator of the graphic memoir Eyes Too Dry (2017) and is passionate about education and long hikes.
Atida Lipshatz is a trained Optometrist but currently works managing an Orthodontic practice. She lives in Melbourne, has been happily married to her husband for 30 years and is the proud mother of 4 adult children , 2 of whom live in Israel. She has a great passion for most things Jewish - traditions , Israel, Hebrew, knowledge, peoplehood and community.
The observance of the Jewish Holidays, and the cooking and entertaining that come with it, are very central to her being.
Orly Miller is a psychologist in clinical practise, a musician, a poet and a philosophical writer. She explores themes of love, spirituality, desire, darkness and archetypes of the collective unconscious.
Lara Lubitz is a teacher and storyteller. She is an active member of the Melbourne Jewish community and really loves camping !
Cassie is the Program Manager of Healthy Communities at Jewish Care Victoria, with a portfolio focused on community education in the areas of mental health and wellbeing, parenting, family violence, and youth mentoring. She is also an active member of the progressive Jewish community where she volunteers as a board member. Cassie is particularly passionate about social justice, body politics and gender equity, and their intersection with Jewish life and tradition.