Participants
We would like to thank the many people who participated in this project
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Sophie Fellman-Rafaelovich
I was born in Guatemala and made Aliyah with my family at age 8. My family stumbled across the Masorti...
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Susie Dvoskin
Susie passed away peacefully in May, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. She remained active throughout. The autobiography which...
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Dikla Druckman
My name is Dikla Druckman and I am a student at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem. The first time...
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Ami Zusman
Before I recorded Haftarah Bo, I had no idea what those trope squiggles meant. But when Susie Dvoskin, my beloved...
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Tzvia Schweitzer
Tzvia grew up in Hod VeHadar in Kfar Saba. She learned to read Torah from Susie Dvoskin for her Bat...
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Helaine Ettinger
Helaine Ettinger is studying towards an Executive Masters program in Jewish Education. She is a 1991 ordinee of the Hebrew...
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Miriam Syvertsen
My name is Miriam Syvertsen. I met Judith when she came to Shabbat dinner at my family's house in Wisconsin. ...
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Natalie Barkan
Natalie was the first girl to celebrate a Shabbat morning bat mitzvah at Emmanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City and the...
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Sarah Friedman Hagbi
Sarah Friedman Hagbi is a lifelong learner whose most recent undertaking involved re-learning to read Haftorah (for the first time since...
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Leah Kayman
Leah Kayman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Camp Ramah in Wisconsin where she began to...
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Tamar Kolberg
I was born in Israel to American parents. Our Sabbath table and many holiday festivities instilled within me a deep...
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Judy Katzin
My name is Judy Katzin. I live in Ra'anana. I grew up in a traditional family and in liberal synagogues...
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Shira Krupat
My name is Shira Krupat, I am 20 years old and I live in Ra'anana, Israel. My family and I...
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Zahara Rubinstein
Zahara made aliyah to Ra’anana, Israel from the United States at age five. She was educated in the Tali program...
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Talia Rubinstein
Talia was two years old when she made aliyah to Ra’anana, Israel from Houston, Texas, in United States. During primary...
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Yarden Ratner
Raveed Ratner
My name is Ravid and I m 19 1/2 years old. I am currently studying in a pre-army program in...
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Wendy Rimon
Cantillation, or “trope” has been a part of my life since I was a little girl. My mom, Evelyn Wolman,...
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Avital Schwartz
My name is Avital Schwartz, I’m 19 years old and I live in Ra’anana. My family and I have been...
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Elianna Schwartz
Dalia Shohan Berender
To introduce myself, I am Dalia Shoham Berender. I live in Herzlyah with my husband Loren and my son Nuri....
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Rinah Shelef
Rinah Sheleff is a retired lecturer in Bible Studies at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv. She specialized in...
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Liat Shapiro
I was born in Washington D.C. in 2000. I grew up in Congregation Adat Israel, an egalitarian Conservative synagogue where...
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Anita Tamari
Anita Tamari is a member of Hod ve-Hadar in Kfar Saba, Israel. She learned to read Torah and haftarah in...
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Ilana Shochat
My name is Ilana Shochat, and I am married to Tal and mother to Rona. I am an occupational therapist...
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Alexandra Berger-Polsky
Alexandra Berger-Polsky, originally from Upstate New York, is currently pursuing an MPH at Ben Gurion University while working at Sidreh,...
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Shayna Tischler
My name is Shayna Tischler and I am 23 years old. Susie Dvoskin taught me to read Torah for my...
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Livna Yavnin
I was born a year after WW2, a year after my parents arrived in Eretz Yisrael, which was still under...
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The women who wrote about the connections between the Haftarah and the Torah reading
Rinah Sheleff
Rinah Sheleff is a retired lecturer in Bible Studies at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv. She specialized in...
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Natalie Barkan
Natalie was the first girl to celebrate a Shabbat morning bat mitzvah at Emmanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City and the...
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Shoshana Zucker
Shoshana Zucker is an experienced, mostly self-taught lay-leader at Hod Vehadar and has been interested in haftarot and their relationship...
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Gail Shuster-Bouskila
Rabbi Gail Shuster-Bouskila has earned two degrees in education. She made Aliyah to Israel in 1978, and finished her rabbinic studies...
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The volunteers who helped with the website
Emanuel Alon – cantillation signs
Avia Barr – actress in our films
Itai Barr – actor in our films
Lauren Bar – consultant
Sharon Bernstein – musical notation
Jackie Diamond – uploading to the website
Noa Dvoskin – photoshop
Linda Gollub-Berger – chuppah
Shira Green – sound editing
Shlomit Kaminka – launching event
Marienella Kreiman – flashcards
Janet Lerner – editing
Irit Miller – translation and editing
Zivah Nativ – translation and editing
Lita Pollard – launching event
Miriam Praeger – launching event
Wendy Rimon – launching event
Linda Sagiv – proofreading
Sunita Staneslow – harp music
Anita Tamari – translation ם
Rochelle Treister – uploading to the website
Yakov Vogel – film editing
Yocheved Welber – translations
Yossi Zucker – musical notation
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Our professional staff
Maya Steinberg - sound editor
Maya Steinberg is a producer, script writer, video and sound editor. She is a graduate of the film and television...
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Susie Dvoskin
Susie passed away peacefully in May, 2017 after a long battle with cancer. She remained active throughout. The autobiography which...
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Ilan Diamond
website developer
Aviv Gross-Alon - website designer
