Ezra Glinter

A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ezra Glinter is a recent graduate in English literature from McGill University and an aspiring journalist and cultural critic. He is the former arts and entertainment editor of the McGill Tribune, former book review editor of Scrivener Creative Review, and a regular contributor to the Canadian Jewish News and the Jewish Daily Forward. Currently he resides in Shanghai, China, where he writes for that’s Shanghai magazine. In his spare time he likes to play the accordion.

 

Aviva Levy

Aviva Levy recently completed her third year of studies abroad at the University of Haifa in Israel. Hailing from Toronto, Aviva is currently a student at McGill University in Montreal, majoring in Canadian Studies with a minor in Sociology. Both an avid reader and news junkie, she plans to pursue a Master of Public Policy degree upon her graduation from McGill.

 

Shana Rosenblatt Mauer

Shana Rosenblatt Mauer is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her research focuses on paradigms of “return” in the work of recent North American Jewish texts. She is an instructor at Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School and Siach, a pluralistic post-high school programme associated with the Alexander Muss Institute. In addition to contributing frequent book reviews to The Jerusalem Post, she published the oft-cited article, “The Female Threat in Genesis,” with the University of Toronto’s Jewish Women’s Online Resource. Rosenblatt Mauer has twice presented papers at Hebrew University’s English Department graduate student conference.

 

Barbara Weiser

Barbara Weiser is currently conducting a study of Canadian Jewish ritual art, that is, objects in public spaces, which include Jewish community centres, Jewish museums and historical societies, synagogues, and cemeteries. Her findings will be part of the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee Virtual Museum. She is also at present curator of the Canadian art collection at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Weiser graduated from Concordia University with an M.A. in Jewish Studies in 2008.