ABC Jewish Heroes and Me

Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen is the award-winning author or coauthor of many books for children including Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, Sydney Taylor Award-winning An Etrog from Across the Sea, An Invitation to Passover, Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim, and the Engineer Ari series, as well as The Heroes Haggadah. She is an editor at Behrman House and the rabbi of Congregation Beth Chai. She lives in Rockville, Maryland. Rabbi Kerry Olitzky is the author or coauthor of nearly 100 books for children and adults, including Welcome to the Seder: A Passover Haggadah for Everyone; The Heroes Haggadah; Rembrandt Chooses a Queen, Sydney Taylor Award-winning An Etrog from Across the Sea, and Miryam’s Dance. The former executive director of Big Tent Judaism, he was named one of the fifty leading rabbis in North America by Newsweek. He lives in New Jersey.Jeanine Murch is an illustrator with a lifelong love of art, books, and storytelling. She earned her BFA from The University of the Arts then began her career in the big publishing houses of New York City, designing and art directing children's books for over a decade. When she made the leap from corporate world to freelance, she returned to her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA where she now works from her home studio and lives with her husband and two children, who inspire her work.