2018 LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters
What is Limmud? What are the Principles? Also, learn some of our History and more.
Meet our 2018 Presenters... they are always up to something good!
Elie Kaunfer
Co-founder and executive director of Mechon Hadar
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David Teten
Managing Partner with HOF Capital
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Andrej Rusakov
Co-founding partner and seed investor in Data Capital Management
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Katya Katsman
MSW, family therapist and sexologist
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Boris Burda
Journalist and TV presenter, writer,
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Abby Stein
Jewish educator, writer, speaker, and activist
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Ruta Vanagaite
Writer
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Zoya Simakhodskaya
Clinical Psychologist
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Zhana Vrangalova
Doctor, sex researcher
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Inna Rojzman
Psychologist, PhD
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Joseph Telushkin
American rabbi, lecturer, and bestselling author of more than 15 books
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Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
Executive Director of JOFA
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Zvi Gitelman
Professor of Political Science and a Preston TisProfessor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
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Ronald Lauder
President, World Jewish Congress
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Barbara Spectre
Founding Director, Paideia - the European Institute for Jewish Studies
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Natalia Aleksiun
Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro
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Sana Krasikov
Writer
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Howard Rosenman
Producer, Actor and Writer
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Daniel Finkelman
Filmmaker
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Abigail Pogrebin
American writer
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Joy Levitt
Rabbi, Jewish educator
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Grisha Yakubovich
Expert in the Israeli Palestinian Relations
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Shamsi Ali
Imam, religious scholar and interfaith bridge builder in US and beyond
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Marc Schneier
Rabbi, founder and president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding
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Alan Dershowitz
American lawyer and author
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Maya Balakirsky Katz
Professor of Art History
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Benjamin Goldschmidt
Rabbi, Jewish educator
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Edward Shenderovich
American entrepreneur
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Ben Rosenfeld
comedian
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Michael Shmerkin
Figure Skater. First Israeli Olympian Winter
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Leonid Gurevich
Designer. Stylist. Photographer.
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Boris Dolin
Jewish Educator and Certified Tour Guide
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