Karen Lehrman Bloch is a cultural critic, a curator, and the author of The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty, La Formentera: The Woodland Refuge of Juan Montoya, and The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World. Her essays and commentary have been featured in media such as the New York Times, the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Vogue, Metropolis, and Tablet. She lives in New York City.

Chloé Simone Valdary is a Tikvah Fellow at the Wall Street Journal working under the auspices of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bret Stephens. In 2013, she was named one of the top one hundred people positively affecting Jewish life in the Algemeiner. Her work as a Zionist thinker and human rights activist has been featured in media such as Huffington Post Live, Israel Hayom, the Jerusalem Post, and the Daily Beast. She lives in New York City.