Noach Dzmura is the editor of an anthology (due to be released in Summer 2009) about the encounter of transgender bodies and identities with Jewish ritual and social space. Since March of 2008 he has edited Jewish Mosaic’s Torah Queeries. A recent graduate of the Richard S Dinner Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, Mr Dzmura is an independent researcher, an information- and instructional- design consultant, a teacher and a writer. Noach maintains a website for transgender Jews here and has been published in Sh’ma, the Jewish Chronicle (UK) and Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture. He has taught at recent events sponsored by Nehirim: A Spiritual Initiative for GLBT Jews. He is a founding member of a community initiative to identify and act to fulfill the needs of the transgender Jewish community in the Bay Area, co-sponsored with the Progressive Jewish Alliance, Jewish Mosaic, and the San Francisco Jewish Federation’s GLBT Alliance.