The Promised Podcast Creators & Guests

Allison Kaplan Sommer is a journalist, currently writing for Haaretz. She is the former Washington DC correspondent, feature writer and critic for the Jerusalem Post, and her work has appeared in the New Republic, Politico, The Forward, and JTA.Kaplan Sommer was raised in Rhode Island. She received her B.A. in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and her M.A. from the Columbia School of Journalism.

Noah Jonathan Efron is a professor at Bar-Ilan University, where he was founding chair of the interdisciplinary program on Science, Technology, and Society. He hosts the podcast "The Promised Podcast."Efron has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT, a fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Shoshi Shmuluvitz is an audio producer and editor. Currently, she is a Managing Producer at Campside Media.

Palestinian living in Haifa, Socialist, member of national leadership at Standing Together, the largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in Israel.

Naomi Zeveloff is a journalist and writer whose work focuses on religion, politics, and conflict. Currently, she is a senior editor at the Committee to Protect Journalists.