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
Polina Dorosinskaya
Artist
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
Anat Zalmanson Kuznetzov
Filmmaker
Marina Eybelman
Artist
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
