2017 LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters

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

Meet our 2017 Presenters... they are always up to something good!

Ilya Bratman
Executive Director Hillel at Baruch College, CUNY

Manny Waks
Community activist, Founder of Tzedek and Kol v'Oz

Rachel Grant Meyer
Rabbi, director of Education (Community Engagement) at HIAS

Eyal Bino
Partner at ICONYC labs

Anna Dayn
Private Equity Investment Advisor, founder of Dayn Advisors

Joy Ladin
Teacher, widely published essayist and poet, literary scholar, and nationally known speaker on transgender issues.

Yaffa Epstein
Director of Education, North America for the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies

Alex Yentin
Psychotherapist at Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic

Alex Tabak
Tour guide, jewish educator

Boris Grachevskii
Founder and director of "Eralash”

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

Bella Zelkin
Community Organizer

Ilya Khinsky
Jewish Educator

Joseph Telushkin
American rabbi, lecturer, and bestselling author of more than 15 books

Yuliya Patrakova
Teacher, Jewish educator

Inna Kuznetsova
President and Chief Operating Officer of INTTRA

Anna Ayzenberg
Yoga Instructor

Zvi Gitelman
Professor of political science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan

Kheedim Oh
Founded Mama O’s Premium Kimchi

Steve Eisenberg
A risk arbitrage specialist

Leon Geyer
Russian/Ukrainian interpreter

Misha Gulko
Photographer, Filmmaker

Boris Gulko
Chess Grandmaster

Joan Nathan
Award-winning American cookbook author and newspaper journalist

Inna Rabinovitch
Early Childhood Educator

Ilana Volodarsky
Founder and Director of the RAJMN program at Jewish Federation of Greater St. Paul

Gil Eyal
CEO and Co-founder of HYPR

Gregory Zuckerman
Author of three books and senior writer at The Wall Street Journal

Irina Reyn
Novelist

Martin Yafe
Israel Educator from JCRC and Planning Executive at UJA-Federation of NY

Lior Vaknin
Founder and President at Israeli Startups NYC

Boris Khodorkovsky
Chairman of Board of Trustees of Mazel Day School

Peter Reznik
LCSW, Ph.D. Mind-Body Integrative Therapist

Igor Meerson
Comedian

Marina Reydler
Actress, Jewish educator

Julia Belotserkovsky
Clinical psychologist

Mirele B. Goldsmith
Environmental psychologist, educator, and activist

Dmitry Romanov
Comedian, actor

Oleg Kuvaev
Artist, designer and animator. Author of the animated series "Masyanya" and "Magazinchik Bo"

Alexander Drouz
Magister of the game «Что? Где? Когда?»

Abby Stein
Jewish educator, writer, speaker, and activist

Gera Sandler
Stage and movies actor

Danny Schultz
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Gotham Ventures

Zisl Slepovitch
Musicologist, multi instrumentalist, composer, music and Yiddish educator

Sali Rakower
Partner at Rakower Law PLLC in Manhattan, Senior Fellow at the West Point Center for the Rule of Law

Ninet Tayeb
Singer, songwriter and actress

Irina Dvoretskaya
Children's programs Director at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

Amir Orad
Entrepreneur

Batsheva Ganz
Artist, Jewish educator

Elena Ulanovsky
Writer and producer

Annie Vakhler
License American Heart Association First Aid and CPR instructor

Zhenya Lopatnik
Singer, Composer, Educator

Yona Verwer
Artist and Founder, Director Jewish Art Salon

Reuven Khaskin
Rabbi, Jewish educator

Menachem Kaiser
Writer, novelist, researcher

Nadiya Al-Noor
Muslim interfaith activist with a focus on Jewish and Muslim communities

Bonnie Lautenberg
Esteemed photographer, Writer, Philanthropist, and Businesswoman

Yuliya Mazur
Informal Jewish Educator

Yuliya Levit
Documentary and lifestyle photographer

Liz Alpern
Co-owner of The Gefilteria

Nelli Chrustaleva
Psychology PhD, Dean of faculty of Emergency Psychology at Saint Petersburg State University

Elhanan Nir
Rabbi is the editor of the "Shabbat" supplement in Makor Rishon and laureate of Prime Minister's prize for creativity in 2011.

Alex Selsky
CEO of World Israel Beytenu, former adviser to PM Netanyahu, lecturer at Hadassah College in Jerusalem.

Yelena Kutikova
Director of Learning and Development at UJA-Federation, Co-founder of Jewish Parent Academy

Lenny Gusel
Co-founder of RJeneration (known as 79ers)

Leonid Vayner
Co-founder of iMishpacha

Alina Bitel
Informal educator, community organizer, and a life-long learner.

Noam Shumakh
Project Manager, Limmud FSU USA and Jewish Educator

Yariv Levin
Israeli lawyer and politician. Currently serves as a Minister of Tourism

Yaniv Halily
Correspondent of Yedioth Ahronoth

Yigal Kotler
Jewish educator and historian is a doctoral candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Davidson School of Jewish Education.

Shamira Malekar
Assistant Professor at the business department in CUNY

Carolina Romanyuk
Child and Family Sleep Consultant

Dani Dayan
Consul General of Israel in New York, Ambassador

Ari Y. Wasserman
Executive Director and chief talent behind AriSafari

Nalini Ibragimov
Educational Director of Souled

Reuven Ibragimov
Rabbi, spiritual leader and innovator

Landon Braverman
Musical theater composer and producer

Nechama Milson
Doctor, author, life coach

Inna Zilbergertz
CEO of the Israel Beytenu Party, leaded by the Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman

Alex Mershon
The emissary of the World Zionist Organization to the Russian speaking Jewish community of North America

Eugene Lekakh
CEO of the American Forum of Russian Speaking Jewry

Ben (Boris) Kogan
Philanthropist, public figure, member of the Executive Board of the American Forum of Russian speaking Jewry

Zhanna Beyl
Chair, Limmud FSU NY Program Committee

Yoel Rappel
Founder and former director of Elie Wiesel Archive at Boston University

Diana Zeltser
Educator

Julie Reines Chervinsky
Director of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation

Nadya Drukker
Executive Director of the Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College

Jars Balan
Author, Editor, and Literary Translator

Paul Robert Magocsi
Professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto

Alexander Genis
Writer and literary critic