A prominent lecturer and author, Rabbi Natan Lopes Cardozo is world renowned for his highly original insights into Judaism and his ability to communicate the relevance of Jewish values and practice in today’s complicated world. A native of the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish community of Holland who holds a doctorate in philosophy, Rabbi Lopes Cardozo received rabbinic ordination from the Gateshead Talmudic College and studied in Israel at the Institute for Higher Rabbinical Studies of Chief Rabbi Unterman and at the Mir Yeshiva. In addition to teaching Jewish audiences, Rabbi Lopes Cardozo often lectures to non-Jewish groups, including Christian leaders, about comparative religion and the fundamentals of Judaism. His many books and articles have been translated into several languages.

Rabbi Chuck Davidson is one of the founders of Giyur K'Halacha, a network of Orthodox conversion courts that are working independently of the Chief Rabbinate. He is also the founder of Ahavat HaGer, an umbrella group of Orthodox rabbis worldwide who wish to conduct conversions independently of centralized rabbinic organizations, and have agreed to accept any conversion that meets the minimum standard under the Halacha. Rabbi Davidson is an expert on the laws of conversion and is active in training rabbis in this field, setting out principles to assist other courts. While his adversarial style has alienated him from some authorities, Rabbi Davidson believes that a forceful approach is needed to break the monopoly of the Chief Rabbis. He also is currently serving as head of Chuppot, the wedding division of Hashgacha Pratit, a Jerusalem organization which challenges the monopoly of the Rabbinate in marriage ceremonies and laws.

Dr. Netanel Fisher is acknowledged to be the academic expert on Jewish conversion in, and the Jewish character of, the State of Israel. Following his doctoral research on Israel's policy on conversion to Judaism, Dr. Fisher has gone on to lead important research and publish numerous articles and book chapters on these issues. Two of his recent papers were researched under the aegis of the Israel Democracy Institute: The Conversion Challenge in Israel – Analysis and Recommendations and Conversion in Israel, Jerusalem. Dr. Fisher's latest paper is titled The Chief Rabbinate’s Conversion-To-Judaism Policy 1948–2018. He is a senior lecturer in political science at the Shaarei Mishpat Academic Center for Law and Science. Dr. Fisher's papers and research findings can be read at https://mishpat.academia.edu/NetanelFisher. 

Rabbi David Golinkin is the president of the Schechter Institutes, Inc. where he also serves as a Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law. He is the author of many halachic responsa, including one on the topic of this play. Read it here.

Rabbi David has been a regular player in Jerusalem's English speaking theater productions in recent years. Selected credits include the Ramban in Theater and Theology's Divine Right and leading roles in The Accomplices, The Chosen, The Maccabee Queen, Man From Earth, Oliver, Pride and Prejudice, Pygmalion, The Statement, and The God of Isaac.

Rabbanit Anne Gordon is a co-founder and the educational director of Chochmat Nashim, an NGO dedicated to combatting the health, financial, and emotional damage caused by extremism and the erasing of women in Orthodox Jewish society. She is also the deputy editor of Ops & Blogs at The Times of Israel. A native of Boston, she has enjoyed an intense and varied career in Jewish education, teaching high school through post-graduate Judaic Studies. Rabbanit Gordon holds a BA in History and Philosophy and an MA in Judaic Studies from Harvard University. She studied in the women’s batei midrash of Jerusalem and New York for nearly a decade, and is pursuing a distressingly slow doctorate in Jewish Education.

In addition to his semicha, Rabbi Krug holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and speech/drama, masters degrees in psychology and Jewish education, a doctorate in clinical psychology, a post-doctorate fellowship degree from Bar Ilan University, and is licensed and in private practice as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Krug wrote his post-doctoral thesis on “The Use Of Drama And Theatrical Technique in Informal Jewish Education,” an often-cited work.

Rabbi Krug was the assistant producer of the world’s longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, from 1974 until its closing in January 2002. He served, for ten additional years, as the Production Consultant/Assistant Director for The Fantasticks' revival, until its closing in June 2017. In addition to more than 250 production credits in the past 49 years, as Director, Production Consultant, Set Designer or Lighting Designer, he has directed an award-winning show for NBC and consulted for multiple Broadway productions and national touring companies.

Miriam Metzinger is a playwright, actress, and singer based in Jerusalem. She studied acting and playwrighting at HB Studio New York, and Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University. Her first play, Lapse, was produced at Franklin College and Oxford University and was awarded a High Commendation rating at the Oxford Cuppers Theater Festival. Her second play, Low Ceiling, was produced at the Burton Taylor Theater in Oxford, U.K. and at Kenyon College. The Women of Lemonfield was given a staged reading at H.B. Studio New York. She also writes fiction; The Invisible Chassidishe Maidel was published in the Kenyon Review in 2014. Metzinger has also written a book of essays, Halfway Down the Stairs, and The Law in Indiana, a biographical novella. She was awarded the John Crowe Ransom Award for Poetry at Kenyon College. Metzinger's latest play, In a Stranger's Grave, sold out every performance of its recent run at Jerusalem's Khan Theater.

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks is the founding director of ATID - The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem, and its WebYeshiva.org program. He is an editor of the journal Tradition, series editor of The S.Y. Agnon Library at The Toby Press, and Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. Rabbi Saks is a frequent speaker at the Khan where he examines the complexities of reality without marring the magic of art. 

Rabbanit Shani Taragin advocates for a more accurate and nuanced portrayal of religious conservatism than the one we frequently see in the arts. Rabbanit Taragin completed a B.A. and M.A. in Tanach and Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Tanach while serving as Ram for Tanach in Midreshet Lindenbaum. Rabbanit Taragin also teaches collegiates and adults at MaTaN, Migdal Oz, Sha'alvim for Women, Lander's College, and the Womens' Beit Midrash in Efrat and Ramat Shilo. She is a graduate of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Program for certification as a halachic advisor in issues of taharat hamishpacha. Rabbanit Taragin lectures and leads Tanach tours throughout Israel and serves on the local religious council dealing with issues of Jewish law and education. 

Rabbi Yosef Wolicki is an alumnus of Yeshiva University with a B.A. in Psychology, MA degrees in Rabbinic Literature and Modern Jewish History, and rabbinic ordination. He also has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from McGill University. Rabbi Wolicki served as a congregational rabbi in the U.S. and Canada for twenty-four years prior to his aliya in1986. He then joined the faculty of Orot Israel College in Elkana and also worked as a psychologist at Shaare Zedek Hospital, working with families of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.  Rabbi Wolicki moved to Netanya in 1990 as the rabbi of the New Synagogue, retiring in 2004. He gave seminars in counseling skills and practical rabbinics to young rabbis for the Shaal Program of Yeshivat Shaalvim and Yad Hanadiv. He also lectured at the Israel Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wolicki is affiliated with the Rabbinical Council of America.