Shani Taragin is pursuing a PhD in Tanakh while serving as coordinator of the Intensive Tanakh Track for post-high school students at Midreshet Lindenbaum.  She has a BA and MA in Tanakh and Talmud from Bar-Ilan University.  She also teaches at MaTaN, Migdal Oz, Sha’alvim for Women, Lander’s College, and the Womens’ Beit Midrash in Efrat and Ramat Shilo. She is a graduate of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Program for certification as a halachic advisor in issues of family purity law and serves on the first women’s hotline to deal with issues of Jewish Law.

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Nathaniel Helfgot is chair of the dept of Talmud and Rabbinics at the SAR High School in New York City. He serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ . He is on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and the Wexner Heritage Program. An alumnus of the Jerusalem Fellows program, he received ordina­tion from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and has an MA in Education from the David J. Azrieli Graduate School.

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