Rachel Levmore, PhD in Talmud and Jewish Law from Bar Ilan University; Rabbinical Court Advocate licensed by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate; director of the Agunah and Get-Refusal Prevention Project of the International Young Israel Movement in Israel and the Jewish Agency; one of the authors of the prenuptial “Agreement for Mutual Respect – Heskem L’kavod Hadadi“; author of “Min’ee Einayich Medim’a” on prenuptial agreements for the prevention of get-refusal; the first female Rabbinical Court Advocate to serve on the Israel Commission for the Appointment of Rabbinical Court Judges; and a member of Beit Hillel-Attentive Spiritual Leadership.

Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law at Emory University School of Law, where he directs the SJD program.  He is also the Berman Projects Director in Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion.  He was the Rabbi of the Young Israel in Atlanta for fourteen years, and the director of the Beth Din of America, where he served as a chaver for nearly 20 years.  He is the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles, as well as countless oped and podcasts published in such diverse places as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Jewish Press.  He was ordained yoreh-yoreh vyadin-yadin by Yeshiva University, received a JD from New York University and clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the US Third Circuit.