Elisheva Barre was born in Jerusalem but she grew up in France where she studied at the University Paris VIII in the wake of the '68 revolution. In France, she worked as translator and interpreter for Unesco and the British Council, had a try in showbiz, and participated in cultural programs sponsored by the French Ministry of Education in high schools – some of which in Louisiana and Martinique. In 1979, she published two booklets of poems PRIERE A UN ABRE SOLITAIRE and FRANCHE CANCAN ET PAS DE QUOI, and submitted a collection of three hundred illustrated maxims for the newspaper Le Monde that were never returned to her and never published.
In 1980, she came to Israel with her son, learning and then teaching Torah in various institutions. She became Rabbi Meir Kahane's assistant and after he was killed wrote a book in French about this period in Jewish History entitled KAHANE ET LE KAHANISME, ISBN 978-965-71329-1-1. She then studied with Rabbi Yossef Kappach for 8 years (concentrating on the Rambam and Rav Saadya Gaon), had a weekly radio show in Hebrew and English sponsored by Shifra Hoffman where she analyzed the news in the light of Jewish Law. She obtained the Diploma of the Jerusalem Institute of Biblical Polemics directed by Shmuel Golding, who asked her to write a series of articles on the Bnei Noach commandments for his monthly magazine. A few of her political articles were published in the Bulletin of Yemin Israel in Russian translation.
In 2000, Elisheva produced the website TORAH FOR GENTILES for the Evelyn Torah Center which was removed after one year when the money dried out. This book expands and elaborates the articles that were published there. She is currently studying Islam and Talmud at Bar Ilan University and is a regular auditor at the seminars of Halichot Am Israel directed by Rabbi Ratson Arussi and ''Moreshet HaMishpat HaYivri''directed by Professor Nachum Rakover.
