Freya Boltman is an eighteen-year-old student and school captain at The King David School. She is passionate about social and environmental justice and the arts, striving to make the world a better place.
Ros Collins is an 90 year old Jewish writer. Her first book, 'Solly's Girl' was published in 2015. Her second book, "Rosa: memories with licence" was published by Hybrid in September 2019. She shares a blog with her late husband Australian Jewish writer, Alan Collins, at alanandroscollins.wordpress.com.
Maya is now a year 9 student at The King David School in Melbourne. She had her bat mitzvah at Temple Beth Israel on Shabbat Vayikra and Shabbat Zachor the week of Purim and in her remarks to the congregation, she reflected on the festival.
Sharon Dobkin was born in Haifa at 1978. She has a B.A in General Literature and a degree in Digital Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. She started her career as a journalist at Haaretz magazines, specialising in culture and design and worked as a freelance copywriter for publishing companies. In 2014, Sharon survived a huge explosion in her flat, caused by gas leak. After a long rehabilitation she returned to normal life and today lives and writes in Ramat Gan.
Dr Elana Maryles Sztokman is an award winning writer, leading Jewish feminist thinker, educator, social activist, indie publisher, and overall spiritual seeker. She has written four books on gender and society, two of which won the National Jewish Book Council award. She is involved in many causes, including serving as VP for Media and Strategy for Democrats Abroad-Israel. She works at NIF and is studying to become a rabbi/chaplain.
Nyah Shahab is a seventeen-year-old student and social activist. She spends her time outside of school doing human rights and environmental activism. As a progressive Jew, she acknowledges the importance of Tikkun Olam and strives to make a difference.
Chana Kanzen Is CEO of Jewish Interactive, and was a founding member of the organisation in 2012. She regularly lectures, writes and leads innovation in education and has partnered with major partners including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Israel Ministry of Diaspora affairs.
Sharon Hart-Green is a Canadian writer and academic whose debut novel 'Come Back for Me' is a gripping story of trauma, loss, and the redemptive power of love. 'Come Back for Me' was chosen as an Editors' Choice Book by the Historical Novel Society and was recently shortlisted for the Goethe Award for Historical Fiction. Dr. Green holds a Ph.D. in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and has served as an Associate Professor of Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto for many years. She is the author of two previous non-fiction works: a book on the fiction of Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon; and a volume of original translations of the Hebrew poetry of Hava Pinhas-Cohen. In addition, her short stories, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Jewish Review of Books and The Jewish Quarterly.
Alon Tal is the chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. Tal has held faculty appointments at Ben Gurion and Hebrew Universities in Israel and was a visiting professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Stanford University in California. Between 1990 and 1998 he was an adjunct faculty member at Harvard University.
He has published eight books, his most recent: The Land is Full, won the Haiken award for best Israeli book on geostrategic topics.