Miriam R. Kosman

Miriam Kosman is an international lecturer for Nefesh Yehudi, a program that offers classes on Jewish thought and philosophy to Israeli university students. In that capacity she teaches a few hundred students a week, who study at Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Ben Gurion University, the Technion and others.

She also runs a year-long course on Jewish thought that has been attended by hundreds of women. She is a doctoral candidate at Bar Ilan University; her dissertation topic touches on both Jewish philosophy and gender.

Miriam wrote several Jewish children's books in her younger years, before turning her focus to the study of gender in Judaism.

She lives in Bnei Brak, Israel, with her family.