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
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Hanan Harchol
Creator, writer and animator of Jewish Food For Thought
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Ilya Akselrod
Israeli comedian and TV host
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Yuliya Mazur
Jewish Educator
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Katerina Romanenko
Assoc. Director of Education. National Museum of American Jewish History
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Zhanna Beyl
Communal Education Networker at The Jewish Education Project
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Michael Paley
Rabbi, Scholar, and Jewish Educator
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Doreen Seidler-Feller
Clinical Psychologist, Assoociate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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Chaim Seidler-Feller
Rabbi, Executive Director, Hillel at UCLA
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Olga Markus
Jewish educator, Assistant Executive Director at COJECO
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Dmitry Shiglik
Chairman of the American Forum of Russian-speaking Jewry
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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
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Sandra Cahn
Co-founder, Limmud FSU and Philanthropist
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Chaim Chesler
Founder and Chairman, Executive Committee, Limmud FSU
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Roman Kogan
Executive Director, Limmud FSU
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Nehama Milson
Life-coach, writer
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Sofya Tamarkin
Motivational speaker
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Yaakov Zito
Multi-lingual writer, journalist and autism advocate
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Marina Rozenberg - Koritny
Head of the Department for the promotion of Aliyah, World Zionist Organization
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Estee Bardanashvili
Senior Producer of International Social Impact at Sesame Workshop
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Alexandra Gerson
Founder Russian Jewish Radio Station
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Sasha Gerner
RSJ Community lay leader and a Chair of the RAJMN Project, actor and writer
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Anya Azrelyan
RSJ Community lay leader, Co-Cair of the RAJMN Project, theatrical producer, writer and a pianist
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Israel “Izzy” Tapoohi
President and CEO, Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bonds
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Marina Mirchevskaya
Art Director
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Vitaly Umansky
Artist, Educator
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Chemi Shalev
New York-based US Editor and Correspondent for Israel’s highly respected Haaretz daily newspaper
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Tamir Zaltsman
Rabbi and Maggid, Expert on Jewish mysticism and psychology
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Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
Executive Director of JOFA
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Gil Hovav
Leading culinary journalists, author, publisher and tv presenter
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Jeremy Borovitz
Rabbi, Jewish Educator
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Semyon Dovzhik
Journalist, leading columnist of Jewish.ru portal, writing for Lechaim magazine, Relevantinfo.co.il and others media
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Lev Shneider
Self-taught pianist, composer
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Eyal Bino
Co-founder and Partner at ICONYC labs
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Andrey Akselrod
CTO and founder of Smartling
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Misha Galperin
Philanthropic Advisor
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Mira Wasserman
Rabbi, Scholar
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Avi Killip
Director of Project Zug
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Ilana Shydlo
Ilana Shydlo Founder of Accent Eraser, speech-language pathologist
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Gil Eyal
CEO and Co-founder of HyPR
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Sandra Lilienthal
Public Speaker, Jewish Educator
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Ludmila Petranovskaya
Psychologist
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Maria Blekher
Scholar
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Alina Bas
Certified Executive Coach and Life Strategist
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Alex Yentin
Licensed clinical psychotherapist and certified group psychotherapist
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Amir Shaviv
Senior Executive, The Joint Distribution Committee
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Bella Zelkin
Director of Émigré Services at JCCA
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Steve Eisenberg
A risk arbitrage specialist
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Alina and Jeff Bliumis
Artists
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Simon Jacobson
Rabbi, Autor, Scholar
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Manashe Khaimov
Director of JCCA’s Bukharian Teen Lounge, entrepreneur, Jewish educator, and community leader
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Gidi Grinstein
Serial Social Entrepreneur
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Masha Gessen
Russian and American journalist, author and activist
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Yelena Khanga
Journalist, television personality and writer
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Evgeny Kogan
Entrepreneur, President of the Moscow Partners investment boutique
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Gary Katz
Clinical Social Worker
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Alex Rubin
Community Leader
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Marina Zurakhinsky
Community organizer, Jewish professional and lay leader, founder of Zplay
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Leeza Negelev
Associate Director of Education at Mayyim Hayyim, a Community Mikveh
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Vadim Blumin
Historian and activist in the fields of Jewish Education and Civil Society in Israel
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David Teten
Partner with ff Venture Capital
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Zhenya Lopatnik
Singer, Writer and Jewish Educator
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Yelena Yafe
Artist
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Zeev Volkov
Tour guide, Educator
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Ilya Bratman
Executive Director at the Hillel at Baruch College
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Dovid Katz
Professor, Historian, Yiddish specialist
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Grigory Gurevich
Sculptor, painter, photographer, graphic artist, printmaker, art book creator, and inventor
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Reuven Ibragimov
Rabbi, spiritual leader and innovator
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Nalini Ibragimov
Educational Director of Souled
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Marina Reydler
Actor, director, theatre educator and dreamer
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William Hess
President of the American Zionist Movement
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Anna Kegeles
Artist, graphic designer, blogger and book publisher
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Ari Y. Wasserman
Executive Director and chief talent behind AriSafari
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Benzion Klatzko
Founder of Shabbat.com, Music producer, Successful author, a Rabbi and a Mohel
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Lori Palatnik
Writer and Jewish Educator
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Muhammed Barhum
Israeli-Arab SodaStream Factory Manager
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Bassem Eid
Palestinian Human Rights Activist and NGO Director
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Danny Danon
Israel's envoy to the United Nations
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Allen Lewis Rickman
Actor, writer and director
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Oded Forer
Member of Knesset
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Yoram Dori
Strategic advisor
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Yigal Kotler
Educator, Historian
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Yelena Shmulenson
Actress
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Colette Avital
Ambassador
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Shane Baker
Actor
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Elizabeth Alpern & Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Co-owners of The Gefilteria
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Elihu Ben-Onn
Journalist
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Gayle Squires
Food writer
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Nurit Koren
Member of Knesset
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Amichai Lau-Lavie
Jewish educator, writer, performer
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David Broza
Singer, songwriter
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Olya Krasavina
Artist
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Nina Faynberg
Jewish Educator
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Jane Dechtiar
Educational director of a summer camp program” Havurah”
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Ron Furman
Israeli Advocacy Activist
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Andrew Rekhels
Jewish Educator
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