Beth Zasloff has taught writ­ing at NYU, at Johns Hop­kins, and in New York City pub­lic schools. She is direc­tor of the Mid­town Workmen’s Cir­cle School, a pro­gres­sive Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty, and co-author, with Edgar M. Bronf­man, of Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jew­ish Renais­sance (St. Martin’s). She and her hus­band Joshua Steck­el received the Studs and Ida Terkel Award for Hold Fast to Dreams.