2016 LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters

What is Limmud? What are the Principles? Also, learn some of our History and more.

Meet our 2016 Presenters... they are always up to something good!

Ilya Khinskiy
Jewish Educator

Hanan Harchol
Creator, writer and animator of Jewish Food For Thought

Ilya Akselrod
Israeli comedian and TV host

Yuliya Mazur
Jewish Educator

Katerina Romanenko
Assoc. Director of Education. National Museum of American Jewish History

Zhanna Beyl
Communal Education Networker at The Jewish Education Project

Michael Paley
Rabbi, Scholar, and Jewish Educator

Doreen Seidler-Feller
Clinical Psychologist, Assoociate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Chaim Seidler-Feller
Rabbi, Executive Director, Hillel at UCLA

Olga Markus
Jewish educator, Assistant Executive Director at COJECO

Dmitry Shiglik
Chairman of the American Forum of Russian-speaking Jewry

Alex Selsky
CEO of the World Israel Beytenu, ‎Member of the Executive Board at ‎World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, former adviser to Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Sandra Cahn
Co-founder, Limmud FSU and Philanthropist

Chaim Chesler
Founder and Chairman, Executive Committee, Limmud FSU

Roman Kogan
Executive Director, Limmud FSU

Nehama Milson
Life-coach, writer

Sofya Tamarkin
Motivational speaker

Yaakov Zito
Multi-lingual writer, journalist and autism advocate

Marina Rozenberg - Koritny
Head of the Department for the promotion of Aliyah, World Zionist Organization

Estee Bardanashvili
Senior Producer of International Social Impact at Sesame Workshop

Alexandra Gerson
Founder Russian Jewish Radio Station

Sasha Gerner
RSJ Community lay leader and a Chair of the RAJMN Project, actor and writer

Anya Azrelyan
RSJ Community lay leader, Co-Cair of the RAJMN Project, theatrical producer, writer and a pianist

Israel “Izzy” Tapoohi
President and CEO, Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bonds

Marina Mirchevskaya
Art Director

Vitaly Umansky
Artist, Educator

Chemi Shalev
New York-based US Editor and Correspondent for Israel’s highly respected Haaretz daily newspaper

Tamir Zaltsman
Rabbi and Maggid, Expert on Jewish mysticism and psychology

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
Executive Director of JOFA

Gil Hovav
Leading culinary journalists, author, publisher and tv presenter

Jeremy Borovitz
Rabbi, Jewish Educator

Semyon Dovzhik
Journalist, leading columnist of Jewish.ru portal, writing for Lechaim magazine, Relevantinfo.co.il and others media

Lev Shneider
Self-taught pianist, composer

Eyal Bino
Co-founder and Partner at ICONYC labs

Andrey Akselrod
CTO and founder of Smartling

Misha Galperin
Philanthropic Advisor

Mira Wasserman
Rabbi, Scholar

Avi Killip
Director of Project Zug

Ilana Shydlo
Ilana Shydlo Founder of Accent Eraser, speech-language pathologist

Gil Eyal
CEO and Co-founder of HyPR

Sandra Lilienthal
Public Speaker, Jewish Educator

Alina Bas
Certified Executive Coach and Life Strategist

Alex Yentin
Licensed clinical psychotherapist and certified group psychotherapist

Amir Shaviv
Senior Executive, The Joint Distribution Committee

Bella Zelkin
Director of Émigré Services at JCCA

Steve Eisenberg
A risk arbitrage specialist

Simon Jacobson
Rabbi, Autor, Scholar

Manashe Khaimov
Director of JCCA’s Bukharian Teen Lounge, entrepreneur, Jewish educator, and community leader

Gidi Grinstein
Serial Social Entrepreneur

Masha Gessen
Russian and American journalist, author and activist

Yelena Khanga
Journalist, television personality and writer

Evgeny Kogan
Entrepreneur, President of the Moscow Partners investment boutique

Gary Katz
Clinical Social Worker

Alex Rubin
Community Leader

Marina Zurakhinsky
Community organizer, Jewish professional and lay leader, founder of Zplay

Leeza Negelev
Associate Director of Education at Mayyim Hayyim, a Community Mikveh

Vadim Blumin
Historian and activist in the fields of Jewish Education and Civil Society in Israel

David Teten
Partner with ff Venture Capital

Zhenya Lopatnik
Singer, Writer and Jewish Educator

Yelena Yafe
Artist

Zeev Volkov
Tour guide, Educator

Ilya Bratman
Executive Director at the Hillel at Baruch College

Dovid Katz
Professor, Historian, Yiddish specialist

Grigory Gurevich
Sculptor, painter, photographer, graphic artist, printmaker, art book creator, and inventor

Reuven Ibragimov
Rabbi, spiritual leader and innovator

Nalini Ibragimov
Educational Director of Souled

Marina Reydler
Actor, director, theatre educator and dreamer

William Hess
President of the American Zionist Movement

Anna Kegeles
Artist, graphic designer, blogger and book publisher

Ari Y. Wasserman
Executive Director and chief talent behind AriSafari

Benzion Klatzko
Founder of Shabbat.com, Music producer, Successful author, a Rabbi and a Mohel

Lori Palatnik
Writer and Jewish Educator

Muhammed Barhum
Israeli-Arab SodaStream Factory Manager

Bassem Eid
Palestinian Human Rights Activist and NGO Director

Danny Danon
Israel's envoy to the United Nations

Allen Lewis Rickman
Actor, writer and director

Oded Forer
Member of Knesset

Yoram Dori
Strategic advisor

Yigal Kotler
Educator, Historian

Colette Avital
Ambassador

Elizabeth Alpern & Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Co-owners of The Gefilteria

Elihu Ben-Onn
Journalist

Gayle Squires
Food writer

Nurit Koren
Member of Knesset

Amichai Lau-Lavie
Jewish educator, writer, performer

David Broza
Singer, songwriter

Nina Faynberg
Jewish Educator

Jane Dechtiar
Educational director of a summer camp program” Havurah”

Ron Furman
Israeli Advocacy Activist

Andrew Rekhels
Jewish Educator