Sigal Achituv is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Early Childhood Education Graduate Program at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel. She is a research fellow at The Center for Jewish and Democratic Education, University of Haifa, Israel.

Meir Muller is Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of South Carolina, USA, and is cofounder of the Cutler Jewish Day School.

Shelley T. Alexander is Project Coordinator and Research Fellow for Early childhood at The Center for Jewish and Democratic Education, University of Haifa, Israel, and was Director of Early Childhood Services at the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, Oakland, California, in the United States.


Hanan A. Alexander is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel where he was Dean of the Faculty of Education and Head of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education. He is currently Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Koret Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.