Dr. Sarah Isaias has devoted her life to medicine, religious studies, writing, athletics, and family. Like the famous physician before her, and her most cherished role model, the great Rabbi Moses Maimonides, her writing elucidates the paradoxes of a belief system that sees no incompatibility between science and religion, reason and faith. For many years, Dr. Isaias has dedicated herself to caring for America’s medically-uninsured in an inner-city clinic. She has only recently turned her attention to another critical need – the call to peace.
Dr. Ranjit Chatterjee’s interests were primarily in language and religion. He received a Ph.D from The University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. Chatterjee taught writing and literature at the University of Maryland – University College. He passed in November of 2010.
Professor emeritus, rabbi, and dayyan, Rabbi José Faur has worked hard to educate Jews and non-Jews alike about rabbinic Judaism and the Talmudic tradition, as exemplified in the works of giants like Maimonides and Rav Israel Moses Hazzan. Promoting Judaism as the essence of religious humanism, Faur has initiated a vast project of “re-articulating” Judaism in terms that are directly accessible to contemporary minds. Emphasizing the role played by the Sefaradi cultural and intellectual tradition in successfully continuing the Maimonidean legacy, Faur has especially sought to reacquaint Sefaradim – and the world – with the essence of their heritage.
Joseph Haddad is an American living in Israel for the past 15 years. While professionally engaged in international trade the author has also pursued a lifelong passion for Bible and spiritual studies. Born in New York City, the author was a member of the first graduating class of Touro College in 1975. He later pursued graduate studies at the Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business. In 1993 the author together with this wife Sharon and six children made aliya to Israel. The reside in Rananna. Weekly classes in Bible studies are conducted in the author’s home on the Sabbath.
Marino was born September 15th, 1991 – exactly sixteen years after the release of the Pink Floyd album “Wish You Were Here.” Within another sixteen years, most of the text in the book “What Is The Meaning Of Life” was written illegibly, and typed up (somewhat legibly). “What Is The Meaning Of Life” is the first completely legible collection of works by Marino, and even it, perhaps, is only partially English. In between the writing, Marino likes to pass his time making animal noises and putting them on record, as well as trying to recreate the Blues. Marino currently resides in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he spends the majority of his time pretending to be a beatnik.
