Miriam Zami is a PhD candidate in Talmud and Ancient Judaism at Yeshiva University, where she is writing her dissertation on comedy in rabbinic literature. She teaches Jewish education widely in academic and communal settings. Miriam is a member of the Sefaria Word-by-Word Fellowship and was the inaugural Emerging Scholar Fellow by Ma’ayan in the greater Boston area. She previously served as an editor at the Lehrhaus, an online publication of Jewish thought. Miriam lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their daughter.

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Chanan Gafni Studied at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, while earning his academic degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA) and Harvard University (PhD). He currently teaches at Hebrew University and Midreshet Lindenbaum. His publications include The Mishnah’s Plain Sense (2011), and most recently: Conceptions of the Oral Law in Modern Jewish Scholarship (2019).