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
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Manny Waks
Community activist, Founder of Tzedek and Kol v'Oz
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Rachel Grant Meyer
Rabbi, director of Education (Community Engagement) at HIAS
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Polina Dorosinskaya
Artist
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Eyal Bino
Partner at ICONYC labs
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Anna Dayn
Private Equity Investment Advisor, founder of Dayn Advisors
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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
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Alex Yentin
Psychotherapist at Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic
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Alex Tabak
Tour guide, jewish educator
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Boris Grachevskii
Founder and director of "Eralash”
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Grigory Gurevich
Sculptor, painter, photographer, graphic artist, printmaker, art book creator, and inventor
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Bella Zelkin
Community Organizer
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Ilya Khinsky
Jewish Educator
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Joseph Telushkin
American rabbi, lecturer, and bestselling author of more than 15 books
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Yuliya Patrakova
Teacher, Jewish educator
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Inna Kuznetsova
President and Chief Operating Officer of INTTRA
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Anna Ayzenberg
Yoga Instructor
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Zvi Gitelman
Professor of political science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
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Kheedim Oh
Founded Mama O’s Premium Kimchi
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Steve Eisenberg
A risk arbitrage specialist
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Leon Geyer
Russian/Ukrainian interpreter
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Misha Gulko
Photographer, Filmmaker
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Boris Gulko
Chess Grandmaster
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Joan Nathan
Award-winning American cookbook author and newspaper journalist
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Inna Rabinovitch
Early Childhood Educator
Ilana Volodarsky
Founder and Director of the RAJMN program at Jewish Federation of Greater St. Paul
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Gil Eyal
CEO and Co-founder of HYPR
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Gregory Zuckerman
Author of three books and senior writer at The Wall Street Journal
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Irina Reyn
Novelist
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Martin Yafe
Israel Educator from JCRC and Planning Executive at UJA-Federation of NY
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Lior Vaknin
Founder and President at Israeli Startups NYC
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Boris Khodorkovsky
Chairman of Board of Trustees of Mazel Day School
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Peter Reznik
LCSW, Ph.D. Mind-Body Integrative Therapist
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Igor Meerson
Comedian
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Marina Reydler
Actress, Jewish educator
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Julia Belotserkovsky
Clinical psychologist
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Mirele B. Goldsmith
Environmental psychologist, educator, and activist
Dmitry Romanov
Comedian, actor
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Oleg Kuvaev
Artist, designer and animator. Author of the animated series "Masyanya" and "Magazinchik Bo"
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Alexander Drouz
Magister of the game «Что? Где? Когда?»
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Abby Stein
Jewish educator, writer, speaker, and activist
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Gera Sandler
Stage and movies actor
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Danny Schultz
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Gotham Ventures
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Zisl Slepovitch
Musicologist, multi instrumentalist, composer, music and Yiddish educator
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Sali Rakower
Partner at Rakower Law PLLC in Manhattan, Senior Fellow at the West Point Center for the Rule of Law
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Ninet Tayeb
Singer, songwriter and actress
Irina Dvoretskaya
Children's programs Director at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.
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Amir Orad
Entrepreneur
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Batsheva Ganz
Artist, Jewish educator
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Elena Ulanovsky
Writer and producer
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Annie Vakhler
License American Heart Association First Aid and CPR instructor
Zhenya Lopatnik
Singer, Composer, Educator
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Yona Verwer
Artist and Founder, Director Jewish Art Salon
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Reuven Khaskin
Rabbi, Jewish educator
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Menachem Kaiser
Writer, novelist, researcher
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Nadiya Al-Noor
Muslim interfaith activist with a focus on Jewish and Muslim communities
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Bonnie Lautenberg
Esteemed photographer, Writer, Philanthropist, and Businesswoman
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Yuliya Mazur
Informal Jewish Educator
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Anat Zalmanson Kuznetzov
Filmmaker
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Marina Eybelman
Artist
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Yuliya Levit
Documentary and lifestyle photographer
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Liz Alpern
Co-owner of The Gefilteria
Nelli Chrustaleva
Psychology PhD, Dean of faculty of Emergency Psychology at Saint Petersburg State University
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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.
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Yelena Kutikova
Director of Learning and Development at UJA-Federation, Co-founder of Jewish Parent Academy
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Lenny Gusel
Co-founder of RJeneration (known as 79ers)
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Leonid Vayner
Co-founder of iMishpacha
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Alina Bitel
Informal educator, community organizer, and a life-long learner.
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Noam Shumakh
Project Manager, Limmud FSU USA and Jewish Educator
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Yariv Levin
Israeli lawyer and politician. Currently serves as a Minister of Tourism
Yaniv Halily
Correspondent of Yedioth Ahronoth
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Yigal Kotler
Jewish educator and historian is a doctoral candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Davidson School of Jewish Education.
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Shamira Malekar
Assistant Professor at the business department in CUNY
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Carolina Romanyuk
Child and Family Sleep Consultant
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Dani Dayan
Consul General of Israel in New York, Ambassador
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Ari Y. Wasserman
Executive Director and chief talent behind AriSafari
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Nalini Ibragimov
Educational Director of Souled
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Reuven Ibragimov
Rabbi, spiritual leader and innovator
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Landon Braverman
Musical theater composer and producer
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Nechama Milson
Doctor, author, life coach
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Inna Zilbergertz
CEO of the Israel Beytenu Party, leaded by the Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman
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Alex Mershon
The emissary of the World Zionist Organization to the Russian speaking Jewish community of North America
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Eugene Lekakh
CEO of the American Forum of Russian Speaking Jewry
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Ben (Boris) Kogan
Philanthropist, public figure, member of the Executive Board of the American Forum of Russian speaking Jewry
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Zhanna Beyl
Chair, Limmud FSU NY Program Committee
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Yoel Rappel
Founder and former director of Elie Wiesel Archive at Boston University
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Diana Zeltser
Educator
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Julie Reines Chervinsky
Director of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation
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Nadya Drukker
Executive Director of the Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College
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Jars Balan
Author, Editor, and Literary Translator
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Paul Robert Magocsi
Professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto
Alexander Genis
Writer and literary critic
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