From a family of musicians, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer believes that creative art is one of the most powerful ways to get in touch with the divine. He composes music and poetry in Hebrew and English. (He also authors his own original works and transcribes Hebrew and Aramaic text, adding niqqud and t'amim as needed.) Isaac runs a Jewish music transcription service, which will transcribe and set any Jewish music in any language, recorded or written. Contact his service on Facebook or via his music blog.

Isaac Montagu is a musician and an educator who grew up in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London, and now researches Sephardic liturgical music at SOAS, University of London. In their "spare time" Isaac is editor of Siddure Or, a new series of siddurim, and runs Kolot haKahal, an egalitarian Sephardi minyan. In their "real job," you'll find Isaac playing cello for and teaching traditional folk dancing.

Rabbi Benjamin Artom (1835–1879), born in Asti, Piedmont, in the Kingdom of Sardinia, was a rabbi in Italy and Britain. He was the first person to hold the post of rabbi of Naples. In 1866, he accepted a call to become the spiritual leader, or Ḥakham, of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Britain, and held the post until his death on 6 January 1879 at 3 Marine Parade, Brighton. He composed a prayer for boys on the occasion of their Bar Mitzvah that was at one time used in most Orthodox synagogues in Britain and is still used in the Spanish and Portuguese ones. He was left fatherless when a child, and his maternal uncle supervised his early training. His theological education he owed to the rabbis Marco Tedeschi, of Trieste, and Terracini. At twenty he taught Hebrew, Italian, French, English, and German. His first appointment was that of minister to the congregation of Saluzzo near Genoa. While rabbi of a congregation in Naples he received a call to London, where he was on December 16, 1866 installed as chief rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese congregations of the United Kingdom. After a year's stay in England, he became so proficient in English that he could preach in that language with eloquence. Deeply interested in Anglo-Jewish institutions, he directed his attention chiefly to organizing and superintending the educational establishments of his own congregation, the Sha'are Tikvah and Villareal schools. Although of Orthodox views, he welcomed moderate reforms, and endeavored to promote any enterprise tending toward the union of discordant factions. He was author of various odes and prayers in Hebrew, and several pieces of Italian poetry. A selection of his sermons delivered in England was published in 1873.