Jill Hammer is the director of spiritual education at the Academy for Jewish Religion and a co-founder of the Kohenet Institute, a program in spiritual leadership for Jewish women. She has written four books:
Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women,
The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons,
The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, and
The Hebrew Priestess. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including
A Family Treasury of Mitzvah Stories.
Zoë Cohen is a visual artist and art educator. She works from her home studio in West Philadelphia and teaches at The Universityof the Arts. She holds an MFA in visual art from Brooklyn College (CUNY). Her residencies include The Vermont Studio Center, Philadelphia's 40th Street Artist in Residence program, and the Artist-in-Residence program at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, and Berlin, and is in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.