Sarah Bunin Benor is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (Los Angeles campus) and Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Southern California Linguistics Department. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Linguistics in 2004. She is the author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), and she has published and lectured widely about Jewish languages, linguistics, Yiddish, American Jews, and Orthodox Jews. Dr. Benor is founding editor of the Journal of Jewish Languages (Brill) and the Jewish Language Research Website. In her spare time, she enjoys family time with her husband, Mark, and their three daughters, Aliza, Dalia, and Ariella. See details at her faculty website (http://huc.edu/faculty/faculty/benor.shtml) and her book website (http://becomingfrum.weebly.com/index.html).