About Sandra E. Rapoport:

Sandra E. Rapoport is an attorney, Tanach teacher, and award-winning author of four books that give voice to the women of the Hebrew Bible. Sandra was Resident Scholar in Law and Bible at Harvard University. Her third book, Biblical Seductions:  Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash, won a National Book Awards Finalist Prize, was praised by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, zt"l, and was a Boston Globe Top-Ten Bestseller. Sandra taught a popular class on Women in the Bible at the Manhattan JCC for eleven years, she has taught Tanach at the Drisha Institute, and she lectures widely, nowadays via Zoom as well as in-person. Sandra has written on the subjects of Bible, sexual harassment, and terrorism for, variously, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, JOFA Journal, Amit, My Jewish Learning, and 929 English. Her essays on the weekly Torah portion appeared in New York's The Jewish Week for ten years. Sandra's latest book, The Queen & The Spymaster, is a historical novel based on Megillat Esther.