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
Ludmila Petranovskaya
Psychologist
Maria Blekher
Scholar
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
Alina and Jeff Bliumis
Artists
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
Yelena Shmulenson
Actress
Colette Avital
Ambassador
Shane Baker
Actor
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
Olya Krasavina
Artist
Nina Faynberg
Jewish Educator
Jane Dechtiar
Educational director of a summer camp program” Havurah”
Ron Furman
Israeli Advocacy Activist
Andrew Rekhels
Jewish Educator
