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