Yuval Noah Harari is an  Israeli historian, philosopher, and author of best-selling books about human history and technology. 

He's a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and known for his thought-provoking perspectives on human history. Harari's work examines the relationship between history and biology, and the differences between humans and other animals.

Writer, scholar, and activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz died last month, on July 10, after a long battle with Parkinson’s. She was 73 years old.

As an eloquent and incisive poet and essayist, Melanie played a pivotal role in the women’s movement, and the movements for LGBT rights, against racism and anti-Semitism, and for Palestinian rights. Among her most galvanizing ideas was what she called “radical diasporism,” an update of the Jewish Labor Bund’s notion of doykayt (“hereness”).

Sherwin Theodore WineShimon ben Tzvi was an American rabbi and a founding figure of Humanistic Judaism, a movement that emphasizes Jewish culture and history as sources of Jewish identity rather than belief in any gods.[1][2] He was originally ordained as a Reform rabbi but later founded the Birmingham Temple, the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism, in 1963.