Editorial Staff:
Founding Editor Anna Berezina
Assistant Editor Sara-Rivka Davidson
Managing Editor Ari Kristan
Web Developer Eliot Kristan
Creative Consultant Christina Leonard

Contibuting Writers:
Rabbi Robyn Fryer
Sarah Glendon Lyons
Andrew Bock
Lesly HershmanAudrey Kantor
Sara Cooper
Elana Premack Sandler 
Adina Ryter 
Gabrielle Kaufman 
Leah Jones   
Kathryn Brigger Kruger
Sarah Winawer-Wetzl
Susan Ledgerwood  

Staff Bios: 
Anna Berezina
Founding Editor
Anna enjoys reading, fashion, cooking, skiing, taking long walks and going out to way-too-expensive swanky bars.Once upon a time, in one of those bars, Anna and her friend Sara came up with an idea of a magazine for young “unaffiliated” Jewish women. The opportunity seemed too good to pass on. Anna Berezina was born and raised in Novosibirsk, Russia. She’s received her law degree from Novosibirsk University of Economics and Management in 2003. Since moving to the US she’s been working for Hillel: Foundation for Jewish life on campus, and now holds a position of the Director of Outreach and Engagement at Hillel at Brandeis University.To invite Anna for a glass of wine and talk about Jewish women, or to send her cookies and gourmet cheese, email her at ShebrewMagazine@gmail.com

Sara-Rivka Davidson
Assistant Editor
Sara-Rivka was born and raised in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pyschology from Simmons College in Boston, and a professional master’s in journalism from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. When not writing for Shebrew, she works in the Listener and Member Services Department at WNYC Public Radio. She loves coffee, Brooklyn, dancing, queers, reading, radio, and Australia. She wants to be a radio producer. She can be reached at ShebrewMagazine@gmail.com  

Susan M. Ledgerwood
Contributing Writer
Susan is a Los Angeles-based photographer and ersatz writer interested in identity issues, Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and images of personal crises in the public sphere. She is a Vegan and a Jew By Choice, and, if allowed, could exist solely on vegan mac-n-cheese, Sofia minis, Law and Order re-runs, and the luminescence unique to the Los Angeles sunlight in October.

Elana Premack Sandler
Contributing Writer
Elana lives in the Boston area. From nine-to-five, and oftenbeyond, she promotes the health of adolescents as a public healthsocial work researcher. The rest of the time, she enjoys her husbandand friends, being Jewish, reading, free WiFi, yoga, Pilates,knitting, and making jewelry.

 Sara Cooper

Contributing Writer
 Sara  is a writer/director/performer. She is a current student at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and a graduate of Tisch’s Dramatic Writing Program. Recent theater credits include: “A Corpse in the Kitchen” in the Lower East Side Festival at Theater for the New City (writer, director); “EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION!: THE MUSICAL” at Theater for the New City (book/lyrics, director, actor); “Confused Feminism” in the NYU ISM Project (co-writer, performer); “Tea Time Musicals,” MuSE cabaret (lyricist); “The Panda Is Not My Friend,” Lively Productions cabaret (lyricist); “We Love You, Johnny Hero” at New York International Fringe Festival (book/lyrics, director); “St. Jenny of the Morgue” in This Woman’s Work Theatre Company’s Reveal Festival and in the Tisch School of the Arts Festival of New Work (writer); “Terrorism & You” at the 13th Street Repertory Company, in the Theater for the New City’s Lower East Side Festival, and at the Set In Stone Theatre Company (book/lyrics, director); and a reading of the non-musical version of “Emergency Contraception” in Theatre 1050’s Evening of New Play Readings Workshop (writer). Sara also works as a paid blogger and backstage at various theaters in various forms. saracooper.weebly.com 

 

 Original concept by Anna Berezina and Sara Reef.