R. Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli lives in Hamilton, Ontario, mostly working as a Torah/tefilin/mezuzah scribe (i.e. STA"M). For the past four years, she has run the Hamilton Beit Midrash, a place where committed Jews of any gender can learn Talmud using traditional methodology, in its original languages. She has studied at the Pardes Institute, the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Matan. Her semikhah is from R. Elisha Ancselovits of Maale Gilboa and Pardes.