A Tradition of Defiance: The Peculiar Resilience of Yehuda, Ruth, and David

Rachel Sharansky Danziger is a Jerusalem-born writer and educator who teaches Tanakh, with a particular focus on biblical narrative and the art of storytelling. She has taught at Pardes, Matan, Maayan, and Torah in Motion, bringing together close reading, literary theory, history, and creative writing.

Rachel holds an M.A. in American History, where her research explored the connections between faith, emotion, and storytelling in 18th-century America. Her writing has appeared in The Times of Israel, Tablet, Kveller, and 929 English. She is a Sefaria Word-by-Word Fellow and is working on a book exploring family drama in the Book of Judges. A lifelong Jerusalemite and the daughter of Avital and Natan Sharansky, Rachel often writes about the ways that personal and family stories intersect with Jewish history and collective memory.