Adam Cutler

Adam grew up in Toronto, Canada where he attended Jewish day school, was heavily involved in United Synagogue Youth and summered at Camp Ramah. Following a year studying at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Adam continued his education at the University of Toronto where he received an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree (High Distinction) with a double major in Political Science and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in 2004. At U of T, Adam was chairman of Hillel. Currently, he is in his second year in the Rabbinical School at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

 

Julie Spergel

Julie Spergel has recently completed her PhD in English Philology at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Her dissertation, “Canada’s ‘Second History’: The Fiction of Jewish Canadian Women Writers,” was awarded a summa cum laude. She has additionally earned a Master of Arts in Intercultural Anglophone Studies (2003) from the University of Bayreuth, also in Germany, and another in Interdisciplinary Studies: Interpretation and Values in the Humanities (2001) from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. Her current academic interests include Canadian Jewish studies, food studies, post-colonial theory, multiculturalism, and women’s writing.

 

Hyla Korn

Hyla Korn is completing her final year of her MA Program at the University of Toronto's Centre for Religion. She also graduated with an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto as a Jewish Studies Specialist. Hyla's main areas of academic interest include “Holocaust memory: representation and commemoration practices in Canada” as well as Jewish-Christian Relations.

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller is a fourth year undergraduate student at Huron University Collge, the University of Western Ontario, completing his Honours degree in English Literature. Along with acting as a co-editor for the Student Journal of Canadian Jewish Studies, Joseph has contributed regularly to Gam Yachad and Yalla!:  A Reflection on the Middle East. Joseph’s research interests include Twentieth Century British literature, Canadian Jewish literature and Jewish Diaspora identities and politics.

 

Nicole Libin

Nicole Libin is completing the first year of her PhD in the Religious Studies department at the University of Calgary.  She holds an Honours B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Toronto.  Nicole's primary academic interests include Canadian Jewish identity, and cultural studies.

 

Susan Landau-Chark

Susan Landau-Chark is in the doctoral programme in Judaic Studies at Concordia University. Her scholarly and research interests include women and Religion, women in Judaism, Canadian Jewish history and the contemporary Canadian Jewish experience. Susan is presently working on her doctoral thesis,  “Identity, Community, and Religious Leadership as expressed through the Role ofthe Rabbi's Wife.” Her research is non-denominational and she has been interviewing the wives of rabbis throughout Canada for the past two years.