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Prof. Rabbi

Ruth Langer

Rabbi

Yehuda Hausman

Prof.

Bruce Wells

Dr.

Deborah Uchill Miller

Dr.

Michael Tuval

Prof. Rabbi

Mordechai Z. Cohen

Prof.

Matthew J. Suriano

Prof.

Jonathan Klawans

Dr.

Aly Elrefaei

Dr.

Susan Weingarten

Hila Hershkoviz

Jennifer Seligman

Prof.

Theodore J. Lewis

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Daniel Vainstub

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Martti Nissinen

Prof.

Julia Rhyder

Dr.

Yosefa Raz

Avshalom Farjun

Prof.

Joshua Schwartz

Prof.

Marianne Grohmann

Dr.

Sheila Tuller Keiter

Lisa Jacobs

Shamai Leibowitz

Prof.

William Morrow

Prof.

Jean-Louis Ska

Bill Friedlieb

Kevin Wolf

Prof.

Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

Dr. Rabbi

Laura Duhan-Kaplan

Prof.

J. Richard Middleton

Prof.

Malachi Haim Hacohen

Dr.

Eric J. Harvey

Prof.

Daniel Bodi

Prof.

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

Rabbi

Hanan Schlesinger

Prof.

Rebecca K. Esterson

Prof.

David Stern

Prof.

Reinhard Achenbach

Dr.

Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein

Prof.

Wayne Horowitz

Prof.

Eckart Otto

Dr.

Daniel H. Weiss

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J. Cornelis de Vos

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Ronnie Goldstein

Prof.

Jed Wyrick

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Harvey Meirovich

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Jeremy M. Hutton

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Karen Strand Winslow

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Peter Enns

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Martin Goodman

Prof.

Stuart Miller

Dr.

Alex Sinclair

Dr.

Ronit Irshai

Prof.

Esther Brownsmith

Dr.

Matthew Susnow

Prof.

Esias E. Meyer

Dr.

Aubrey E. Buster

Dr.

Daniel O. McClellan

Dr.

Danilo Verde

Dr.

Søren Lorenzen

Rabbi

Daniel Kirzane

Dr.

Natia Mirotadze

Rabbi

Noam Shapiro

Rabbi

Avi Weiss

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Nissim Amzallag

Dr.

Kevin Mattison

Prof.

Hanna Tervanotko

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Brandon Hurlbert

Prof.

Elizabeth Backfish

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Steve Mason

Dr.

Rotem Avneri Meir

Prof.

Juan Manuel Tebes

Prof.

Katell Berthelot

Dr.

Rosanne Liebermann

Dr.

Nava Panitz-Cohen

Prof.

Mark G. Brett

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Hyun Chul Paul Kim

Prof.

Takayoshi M. Oshima

Prof.

Howard B. Rock

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Joseph Ryan Kelly

Prof.

Robert S. Kawashima

Dr.

Gad Barnea

Prof.

Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg

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Steven Bob

Prof.

Nehama Aschkenasy

Prof.

Raymond F. Person

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Shawn Ruby

Prof.

Melissa Ramos

Prof.

Adi Ophir

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Sabine Kleiman

Prof.

C. L. Crouch

Prof.

Carol A. Newsom

Dr.

Assaf Kleiman

Prof.

Dan’el Kahn

Dr.

Yigal Bloch

Dr.

Shlomi Efrati

Dr.

Erica Lee Martin

Dr.

Sarah Schwartz

Prof.

David Goldenberg

Prof.

Sara Offenberg

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Michael C. Hilton

Dr.

Andrew Rehfeld

Dr.

Attila Marossy

Prof.

Jennie Ebeling

Dr.

Nicole L. Tilford

Dr.

Emmanuel Bloch

Ophir Yarden

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Gary A. Anderson

Dr.

Sarah Schulz

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Avital Hochstein

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Yehoyada Amir

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Yossi Turner

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Jean-Pierre Sonnet

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Stefan Schorch

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Mordechai Cogan

Rabbi

Rick Jacobs

Rabbi

Yoni Rosensweig

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Haviva Ner-David

Dr. Rabbi

Deborah Waxman

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David Golinkin

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Adam Mintz

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Shmuly Yanklowitz

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Bradley Shavit Artson

Dr.

Caryn Tamber-Rosenau

Dr.

Alexandria Frisch

Dr.

Tina M. Sherman

Avram Friedman

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Ruth Fidler

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Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll

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Daniel R. Schwartz

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Meira Z. Kensky

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Erin D. Darby

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Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)

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Stephen Germany

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Nolan Lebovitz

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Diana Edelman

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Tammi J. Schneider

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Wil Gafney

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Susanne Scholz

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Carol Bakhos

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David M. Carr

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Dafna Langgut

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Meghan Henning

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Shai Held

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Andrew D. Gross

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Anna Angelini

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David Resnick

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Sandra L. Richter

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Reinhard G. Kratz

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Naama Yahalom-Mack

Prof.

Bernard M. Levinson

Nurit Feig

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Arthur Green

Prof.

James Kugel

Dr.

Harry Freedman

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Molly M. Zahn

Prof.

Joseph Lam

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Peretz Rodman

Dr.

Jaeyoung Jeon

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Brent A. Strawn

Prof.

Nathan MacDonald

Rachel Friedman

Prof.

Jonathan Rabinowitz

Prof.

Emily Colbert Cairns

Dr.

Felix Wiedemann

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Phil Lieberman

Dr.

Joseph Weinstein

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Paula Wapnish Hesse

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Deirdre Fulton

Prof.

Konrad Schmid

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Christoph Berner

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Meira Polliack

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Tamás Visi

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Safwat Marzouk

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Mordecai David Rosen

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Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

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George Savran

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Marcus Mordecai Schwartz

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Reuven Firestone

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Christoph Levin

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John Day

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Ron Stern

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Jason Radine

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Fran Snyder

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Tzvee Zahavy

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Raymond P. Scheindlin

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Karel van der Toorn

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Robert Eisen

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Naama Golan

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Abdulla Galadari

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Laura Quick

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Adam L. Bean

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Ariel Kopilovitz

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Steven Nadler

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Edward Breuer

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John Barton

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Cynthia Chapman

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Anathea Portier-Young

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Matthias Henze

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Martha Himmelfarb

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John J. Collins

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Geoffrey Khan

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Zvi Ron

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Elaine T. James

Dr.

Yael Landman

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Eyal Ben-Eliyahu

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Steven Fine

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Sandra Jacobs

Dr.

Shlomit Bechar

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Daniel Levine

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Andrew Tobolowsky

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Amy-Jill Levine

Noam Cohen

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Philip Yoo

Grace Leake

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Clinton Bailey

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Oded Borowski

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Joachim Yeshaya

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Warren Zev Harvey

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Sarah Shectman

Dr.

Orr Scharf

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Kenneth Seeskin

Evie Gassner

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Rami Arav

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Sidnie White Crawford

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Ido Koch

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Yosef Garfinkel

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Madeleine Mumcuoglu

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Yonatan Miller

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Alexander Rofé

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Angela Roskop Erisman

Dr.

Raz Kletter

Dr.

Meir Ben-Shahar

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Omri Lernau, M.D.

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Ophir Münz-Manor

Dr.

Menachem Katz

Dr.

Marjorie Lehman

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Yonatan Feintuch

Dr.

Ellen Birnbaum

Prof.

Lawrence H. Schiffman

Noam Zion

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Hanna Liss

Prof.

James W. Watts

Prof.

David P. Wright

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Charles H. Manekin

Prof.

Benjamin G. Wright III

Harvey N. Bock

Prof.

Sacha Stern

Prof.

Jonathan Jacobs

Dr.

Ilan Peled

Zvi Koenigsberg

Prof.

Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Dr.

Abraham J. Berkovitz

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Shraga Bar-On

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Hagith Sivan

Dr.

Orit Avnery

Dr.

David Gillis

A. Avreich

Dr.

Eyal Baruch

Prof.

Steven Weitzman

Dr.

Gili Kugler

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Erez Ben-Yosef

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Susan Niditch

Dr.

Eran Viezel

Dr. Rabba

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Dr.

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Prof.

Eric Orlin

Dr.

Alan Flashman

Dr.

Gregg E. Gardner

Dr.

Hilary Lipka

Prof.

Carol Meyers

Dr.

Yedida Eisenstat

Dr.

Shayna Sheinfeld

Prof.

Jack M. Sasson

Prof.

Ada Taggar-Cohen

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Mark Leuchter

Dr.

Devorah Schoenfeld

Yoel S.

Rabbi

Moshe Reiss

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Daniel J. Lasker

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Steven Sager

Dr.

Marc Herman

Dr.

Rachel P. Kreiter

Dr.

Jason Tron

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Everett Fox

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Albert I. Baumgarten

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Tzilla Eshel

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Aren Maeir

Dr.

David Ben-Gad HaCohen

Dr.

Baruch Alster

Dr.

Aryeh Amihay

Prof.

Yairah Amit

DovBear

Dr. Rabbi

David J. Zucker

Rabbi

Daniel M. Zucker

Dr.

Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg

Prof.

Zvi Zohar

Prof.

Ziony Zevit

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Wendy Zierler

Dr. Rabbi

Tzemah Yoreh

Prof.

Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Jacob L. Wright

Rabbi

David Wolpe

Prof.

Lawrence M. Wills

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Andrea L. Weiss

Rabbi

Uzi Weingarten

Prof.

Nili Wazana

Prof.

Chaim I. Waxman

Dr.

Barry Dov Walfish

Prof.

Meylekh (PV) Viswanath

Prof. Rabbi

Burton L. Visotzky

Prof.

Jacqueline Vayntrub

Dr.

Shani Tzoref

Dr.

Chaim Trachtman

Benyamim Tsedaka

Prof.

Emanuel Tov

Prof. Rabbi

Jeffrey Tigay

Sara Susswein Tesler

Prof.

Marvin A. Sweeney

Dr.

Shana Strauch-Schick

Dr.

Jonathan Stökl

Dr.

Gregg Stern

Dr.

Elsie R. Stern

Rabbi

David D. Steinberg

Prof. Rabbi

Daniel Sperber

Prof.

Benjamin D. Sommer

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Norman Solomon

Dan Sofer

Dr.

Malka Z. Simkovich

Dr.

David Shyovitz

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Yael Shemesh

Dr.

Nadav Sharon

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Hava Shalom-Guy

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Michael Segal

Prof.

Shai Secunda

Dr.

Ethan Schwartz

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Baruch J. Schwartz

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Solomon Schimmel

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Michael L. Satlow

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Isaac S. D. Sassoon

Ben Sandler

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Seth Sanders

Tova Sacher

Dr.

Nili Samet

Dr.

Joel Yehudah Rutman

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Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

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David Rothstein

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Tamar Ross

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Jordan D. Rosenblum

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Jeremy Rosen

Dr.

Oded Rosenblum

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Thomas Römer

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Christopher A. Rollston

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Gary A. Rendsburg

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Adele Reinhartz

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Eyal Regev

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Laurie Pearce

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Aaron Panken

Dr.

Tzvi Novick

Dr.

Tania Notarius

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Scott B. Noegel

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Vered Noam

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Hindy Najman

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David Z. Moster

Parry Moshe

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Jeremy S. Morrison

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Sara Milstein

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Eric M. Meyers

Dr.

Ari Mermelstein

Dr.

Naphtali Meshel

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Yitzhak Y. Melamed

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Dalia Marx

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Michael Marmur

Tomer Rami Mangoubi

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Jonathan W. Malino

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Jonathan Magonet

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Shaul Magid

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Marty Lockshin

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Atar Livneh

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Laura Lieber

Shawn Joe Lichaa

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B. Barry Levy

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Ely Levine

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David Levin-Kruss

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Baruch A. Levine

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Yigal Levin

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Jon D. Levenson

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Alan T. Levenson

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Adriane Leveen

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Eve Levavi Feinstein

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Richard Lederman

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Samuel Lebens

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Moshe Lavee

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David Lambert

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Binyamin (Benny) Lau

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​Francis Landy

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Daniel Landes

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Joshua Kulp

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Amit Kula

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Haim (Howard) Kreisel

Hartley Koschitzky

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Naomi Koltun-Fromm

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Eugene Korn

Shira Hecht-Koller

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Aaron Koller

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Israel Knohl

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Shmuel Klitsner

Judy Klitsner

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Itamar Kislev

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Reuven Kimelman

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Yishai Kiel

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Menachem Kellner

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Jill (Citron) Katz

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Hayah Katz

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Ben-Zion Katz M.D.

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Tamar Kamionkowski

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Joel Kaminsky

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Isaac Kalimi

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Seth (Avi) Kadish

Elie Jesner

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Alex P. Jassen

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Sara Japhet

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Mark Janzen

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Daniel Jackson

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Michael M. Homan

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Shalom E. Holtz

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Yair Hoffman

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Lawrence A. Hoffman

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Jeff Hoffman

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Evan Hoffman

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Richard Hidary

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Geoffrey Herman

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Ronald Hendel

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Samuel Heilman

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Herzl Hefter

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Joel Hecker

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Rachel Havrelock

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Judith Hauptman

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Tova Hartman

Yossi Klein-Halevi

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Robert Harris

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Jacob Klein

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Alison L. Joseph

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Michael Harris

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David Gurevich

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Zvi Grumet

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Lawrence Grossman

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Jonathan Grossman

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Eric Grossman

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Edward L. Greenstein

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Leonard Greenspoon

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Frederick E. Greenspahn

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Aaron Greener

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Irving (Yitz) Greenberg

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Deena Grant

Naomi Graetz

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Isaac Gottlieb

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Daniel Gordis

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Elaine Goodfriend

Ari L. Goldman

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Shira Golani

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Samuel Z. Glaser

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Abigail Gillman

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David Glatt-Gilad

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Yehudah Gilad

Shai Alleson-Gerberg

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Deborah Levine Gera

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Stephen A. Geller

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Kristine Henriksen Garroway

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Joshua Garroway

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Stephen Garfinkel

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Zev Garber

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Tova Ganzel

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Uri Gabbay

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Jason Gaines

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Serge Frolov

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Richard Elliott Friedman

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David M. Freidenreich

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Albert D. Friedberg

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Lisbeth S. Fried

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Norma Franklin

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David Frankel

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Steven Fraade

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Michael V. Fox

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Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

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Sam Fleischacker

Mitchell First

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Israel Finkelstein

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Eliezer Finkelman

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Elad Filler

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Liane Feldman

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Yitzhaq Feder

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Avraham (Avi) Faust

Oren Fass M.D.

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Zev Farber

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David A. Falk

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Alexander Even-Chen

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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

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Esther Eshel

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Amy Eilberg

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Raanan Eichler

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Carl S. Ehrlich

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Cynthia Edenburg

Zachi Dvira

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Shawna Dolansky

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Devorah Dimant

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James A. Diamond

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Idan Dershowitz

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Aaron Demsky

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Avi Dentelski

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Daniel Davies

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Guy Darshan

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Noga Ayali-Darshan

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Amy Cooper Robertson

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Alan Cooper

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Yehudah Cohn

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Naftali S. Cohn

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Shaye J. D. Cohen

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Shoshana Cohen

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Michael Chernick

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Yuval Cherlow

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Simeon Chavel

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Michael Carasik

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Nathan Lopes Cardozo

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Lee Buckman

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Erica Brown

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Marc Zvi Brettler

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Marian Broida

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Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Yehuda Brandes

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Miryam Brand

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David R. Blumenthal

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Elizabeth Bloch-Smith

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Yoseif Bloch

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René Bloch

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Yoel Bin-Nun

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David Bigman

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David Bernat

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Adele Berlin

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Ehud Ben-Zvi

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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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Jonathan Ben-Dov

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Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

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Steven Bayme

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Gabriel Barkay

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Elinoar Bareket

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Joel Baden

David Bar-Cohn

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Yael Avrahami

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Michael Avioz

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Jan Assmann

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Flora Brooke Anthony

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Marc D. Angel

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Wendy Love Anderson

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Elisha Ancselovits

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David Almog

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Rachel Adelman

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