JWWS Summit 2021 Speakers
Rebbetzin Feige Twerski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has devoted her life to Jewish education and outreach, giving lectures worldwide on myriad Judaic subjects.
She is a mother and grandmother of many, whose number she refuses to divulge. She serves as the rebbetzin alongside her husband, Rabbi Michel Twerski, of Congregation Beth Yehuda of Milwaukee.
Her articles have appeared worldwide, and selections of them have been compiled into her books, Ask Rebbetzin Feige, published in 2006, Rebbetzin Feige Responds, published in 2012 by ArtScroll Publications, The Future of Happiness, The Future of Friendship, and, most recently, The New Normal, published by Mosaica Press.
She also writes a weekly column in Ami Magazine and has published many articles on Aish.com.
Barbara Bensoussan – contributing editor, Mishpacha Magazine, journalist, novelist, editor, ghostwriter, copywriter – has been writing for Jewish magazines for over 20 years, has authored several books, and has ghostwritten or edited several more.
She left a career path in academic psychology to raise a frum family and worked as an OHEL social worker and ESL teacher before writing developed into a full-time occupation.
Barbara is the author of A New Song (a young adult novel published by Targum and soon to be rereleased by Menucha Publishers), The Well-Spiced Life (a food memoir, Israel Bookshop Publications), and the Jane Austen takeoff called Pride and Preference (Menucha).
Tamar Ansh is the director of the JWWS. She is the author of seven books. Her best-seller, A Taste of Challah, is now also a challah demo business, known as the Jerusalem Challah Experience.
Tamar’s challah events give tour groups, women’s groups, youth groups, bat mitzvahs, and family events — in person as well as internationally, on Zoom, — an inside look at the mitzvah of challah and why it is such an uplifting experience, together with hands-on challah braiding, tips, and how-tos.
Tamar is an internationally known expert on challah and has been a food columnist for Mishpacha Magazine, the Jewish Press, the OU, and Hamodia, and now, kosher.com
To book an event, contact her at:
tamar @ jerusalemchallahexperience.com
In her professional writing career, Tamar is a developmental editor as well as a trained copywriter, specializing in e-mail sequencing and e-mail marketing, and business consulting
Shifrah Devorah Witt, MA, MFA, is a manuscript development writing coach and the founder of Life Solutions: Therapy, Writing to Heal, Bach Remedies, Coaching. She’s the author of From Me to We: A Guide to the First Year of Marriage and Beyond (Artscroll) and The Inside Secrets to the Craft of Writing; she is co-author of The Complete Asian Kosher Cookbook and The Best of Mexican Kosher Cooking.
consciousliving @ hotmail.com
www.sdwitt.blogspot.com
www.shifrahdevorahwitt.com
Sarah Shapiro edited the four-volume Our Lives Anthology series (Targum/Feldheim) and is the author, most recently, of An Audience of One, available from mosaicapress.com, feldheim.com, and in paperback from Amazon .
Sarah writes AmiLiving’s here&now column and teaches writing and editing, in Jerusalem and online. She can be reached at sarahkit @ gmail.com.
Naomi Elbinger is an Israel-based entrepreneur and marketer known for mentoring other entrepreneurs, including as a business columnist in Mishpacha Magazine, through her business blog MyParnasa, and as one of the founders of the Temech Conference, the world’s largest business event for religious Jewish women. She brought this background into her creating and marketing of her first novel, Yedidya, released in April 2021 (Feldheim distribution).
You can learn more about Yedidya and start reading free at yedidyabook.com.
Avigail Sharer , a.k.a. Leah Gebber, is a published author whose popular serials appear in Family First. Avigail recently completed her MAAT in Bibliotherapy (psychotherapy through writing and storytelling) and has broad experience working with women and teens. Avigail also mentors writers in fiction and memoir.Avigail can be reached at avigailsharer @ gmail.com.
Leah Zagelbaum is the Vice President of Media Affairs for Agudath Israel of America. Leah has been with Agudas Yisroel her entire career; she has rotated from Bnos (the girls’) division, to the Jewish Observer, to Media Affairs. In Leah’s words: “My goal is to make a difference. I work with the most dedicated people on the planet, who care about each member of Klal Yisrael and devote themselves to the needs of the Jewish people, yet never forget about the individual person.”
Contact her at LZagelbaum @ agudah.org.
Rabbi Avi Shafran has served as Agudath Israel of America’s spokesman since 1994. He writes widely for the Jewish and general media and is the author of several books, including Migrant Soul: The Story of an American Ger (Targum/Feldheim) and, most recently, It’s All in the Angle (Torah Temimah Publications/Judaica Press), a collection of selected essays.www.rabbiavishafran.com
Binyamin Rose is the editor-at-large of Mishpacha Magazine, the dominant media influence for Orthodox Jewry worldwide and a trusted source for news and current affairs since 2004.
Binyamin Rose has traveled to 26 countries for feature assignments and to interview leading newsmakers and politicians.
Yisroel Besser has been a contributing editor at Mishpacha Magazine for close to fifteen years. He is also the author of several books, including The Chasam Sofer, Just Love Them, Reb Shayele, Reb Shlomo, Nishmas, and others.
