2015 LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters
What is Limmud? What are the Principles? Also, learn some of our History and more.
Meet our 2015 Presenters... they are always up to something good!
Victor Shenderovich
Satirist, writer, script writer and radio host
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Igor Irten'ev
Russian poet, a leading representative of the genre of irony in contemporary Russian poetry
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Boris Fishman
Writer, Journalist
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Yaron Prywes
Expert in the science that supports leadership development and organization change
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Chaim Chesler
Founder and Chair Executive Committee, Limmud FSU
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Sandra F. Cahn
Co-founder, Limmud FSU and Philanthropist
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Mordechai Becher
Rabbi, educator, public speaker
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Igor Klibanov
CEO of Fitness Solutions Plus
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Marina Goodman
VP, Portfolio Oversight Management at Bank of America
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Anna Kaplan
Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Specializes in individual, family and group therapy
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Alexander Okun
Artist, writer, journalist
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Igor Schupak
Director of the Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies "Tkumah"
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Roman Kogan
Executive Director, Limmud FSU
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Alla Paskovaty
Doctor of Pharmacy, Board Certified Pharmacy Specialist with Added Qualifications in Infectious Diseases
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Dima Zicer
Educator, Director, and Founder of INO (Institute of Informal Education)
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Michael Dorfman
Writer, essayist, journalist, human rights activist and activist of Yiddish culture revivalist movement
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Aryeh (Lev) Katzin
Rabbi, educator, Jewish activist
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Vladimir Druk
Poet, inventor and technology expert
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Yuliya Levit
Documentary and lifestyle photographer
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Marina Eybelman
Artist and photographer
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Nataliya Ostrovskaya
Food Business Entrepreneur
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Sonia Beker
Educator and author of "Symphony on Fire"
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Victoria Drob
Researcher, Clinical Counselor
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Yelena Vayner
Physical Therapist and Zumba Instructor
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Iryna Rosenfeld
Ukrainian Singer, Actress, and Composer
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George Itzhak
Filmmaker, photographer and storyteller
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Boris Gulko
Psychologist, Chess Grandmaster
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Ilya Bratman
Executive Director, Hillel at Baruch College
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Anna Fishbeyn
Actor, playwright and producer
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Leonard Petlakh
Executive Director at Kings Bay YM-YWHA an agency of UJA Federation of NY
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Martin Yafe
Israel Advocacy - Middle East Conflict Analysis
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Lori Palatnik
Writer and Jewish educator
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Charlotte Hallé
Editor of Haaretz English
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Mordehai Haimovich
Senior Writer, Ma’ariv
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Menachem Kaiser
Writer and Critic
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Alina Bitel
Informal Educator, a Community organizer, Chair, Limmud FSU US
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Anna Zicer
Jewish Educator, Producer, and Actress
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Ari Y. Wasserman
Executive Director and chief talent behind AriSafari
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Manashe Khaimov
Director of JCCA’s Bukharian Teen Lounge, entrepreneur, Jewish educator, and community leader
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Reuven Ibragimov
Rabbi, spiritual leader and innovator
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Olga Gilburd
Writer
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Ilya Levin
Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State
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Fania Oz-Salzberger
Israeli writer and historian
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Yehiel Fishzon
Historian, writer, guide
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Walter Ruby
Muslim-Jewish Relations Program Director
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Alice Kogan
Founder of the Cheburashka Project
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Yoel Matveyev
Yiddish poet, writer, researcher and cultural activist
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Sunday Shkola
Sunday Shkola Park East Synagogue
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Stanislav Smelianskiy
Writer, film director, creative director and poet
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Rimma Shikh
Educator and Science popularizer for kids
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Alex Tansky
Director of Education at the Village Temple, Congregation B’nai Israel in Manhattan
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Ilan Evyatar
Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Report and News Editor at The Jerusalem Post
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Yelena Yafe
Motion Graphics Designer
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Jay Michaelson
Columnist for The Daily Beast & The Forward
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Yigal Kotler
Educator, Historian
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Dmitry Astrahan
Theater and film director, actor
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Shaun Goldstone
Global Program Officer, JDC
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James Kenigsberg
Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member, 2U inc.
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Abraham H. Foxman
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
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