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Lisa Fishbayn Joffe is director of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute of Brandeis University. She holds law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School and Harvard Law School, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand and Harvard Law School. Lisa is conducting research on the scope of Get refusal in America. Contact Lisa here.

Layah Kranz Lipsker is a Jewish educator and mother of six, interested in the ways in which religion impacts the lives of women. Lipsker created the getyourget website in 2013 and works on the Boston Rabbinical Court team to support women.  Lipsker is the co-founder of Chabad of the North Shore and is currently the educational director of Eim Chai and an educator for Kevah. Her journey as a Hassidic feminist led her to her current position as a Research Associate for the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Contact Layah here.

Rabbi Aryeh (Robert) Klapper is the founder and dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and a member of the Boston Rabbinical Court.  Rabbi Klapper attended the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Kollel L'Horaah and was ordained March 1994. He received a M.A. in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and a B.A. in political science from Yeshiva College. Rabbi Klapper created the course for legal professionals to educate them about the Get process. Contact Rabbi Klapper here.

Dr. Rachel Levmore holds a PhD in Talmudic and Jewish Law from Bar Ilan University. She is a Rabbinical Court Advocate and coordinator of the Agunah and Get-Refusal Prevention Project of the International Young Israel Movement in Israel and the Jewish Agency. Rachel is one of a team that developed a Prenuptial Agreement for the Prevention of Get-Refusal for use in Israel and serves on the committee to appoint Rabbinic judges in Israel. You can ask Rachel your question here.

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