Kate Zernike has been a reporter for The New York Times since 2000.
She was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for stories about al-Qaeda before and after the 9/11 terror attacks.
Sanna Feirstein is born in Chicago and raised in Connecticut.
Sanna Feirstein graduated from Wellesley College in 1966 with a BA in French and Art History.
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld & Bart Wallet are authors of a book called, “Jews in the Netherlands.”
Tirtsah is an independent scholar, who specializes in cultural aspects of the Portuguese Jewish community of the early modern period.
Dean is the founder of Dean’s Beans Coffee Company.
He earlier worked as an indigenous rights lawyer, an environmental attorney.
Walter Zev Feldman is credited with spearheading the revival of Klezmer music in the 1970s, bringing to life this relatively unknown form of traditional Jewish music.
He got a degree in finance from Emory University. He used to work in multinational quality control at a consultancy firm.
Rachel Butler is the president of The Catalytic Impact Foundation, an organization that invests in early-stage life science companies that address unmet medical needs.
Eleanor Friedman was apprenticing as a butcher and nocino (salumi producer), and her husband Gianpiero Pepe was running a local restaurant in Italy.
Steve Farhood has been around Sweet Science for 34 years, most of which have been spent as editor-in-chief of “The Ring” and “KO” magazines. Farhood works as an on-air analyst for Showtime’s “ShoBox” series, “Showtime Championship Boxing,” and the syndicated “Broadway Boxing” series.
