Name: Yitz Landes
Bio: Dr. Yitz Landes is an Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He researches and teaches rabbinic texts, the history of the Jewish Book, ancient Jewish History, and the development of Jewish Liturgy.
Website: https://www.jtsa.edu/team/isaac-landes/
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/yitz-landes
Name: Phil Keisman
Bio: Dr. Phil Keisman is the director of Teen Education at JTS. He earned his PhD in European History from the City University of New York Graduate Center. His dissertation, “Publishing the Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper and Its Modernities,” explores the origins of the Hebrew press in the 1850s, focusing on the intersection of religion and emerging media. He is a veteran educator and teacher of Jewish history and text and has taught at The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Beit Rabban Day School, The New School, Lehman College, and Queens College.
Website: https://www.jtsa.edu/team/dr-phil-keisman/
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/phil-keisman
Name: Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer translator for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his translations, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot Naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also transcribes prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes for the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/aharon-varady-translation
