Yosef Rosen has a BA from Yeshiva University (Philosophy) and a MA from Hebrew University (Jewish Thought). Before joining the JDP he also attended numerous traditional and innovative yeshivot in Israel. His research focuses both on the history of Midrash and Medieval Kabbalah. He hopes to write his dissertation on poetic and politico-theological aspects of Zoharic literature as situated within an history of late Midrash and Christian hermeneutical and political figurations. He has taught advanced Talmud at UCB and is involved in local Jewish adult education.

Sarah's research interests focus on the Jewish communities of North Africa and the Middle East, and specifically cultural exchange and intertextual dialogue and debate between Jews and Muslims. Sarah’s dissertation, entitled “Narrative Encounters of Muslims & Jews in Contemporary Rural Morocco,”investigates Muslim-Jewish relations in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains during the 20th century, as expressed through folklore and other oral traditions by individuals of both communities today. Sarah authored several short articles for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (2010) and her paper, “Wit,Ruse,Rivalry,and Other Keys to Coexistence: Reflections of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Berber Oral Traditions,” is published in North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities (2007).