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Jason Brzoska
(Chief Operating Officer) is also currently the Technical Coordinator for
The Curriculum Initiative, Inc and the former operations director for the
Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel. In addition, Jason has worked on a
number of real estate development projects in the U.S. and Europe. Jason
is a member of the board of the Jewish Studies Center at the University at
Albany and was on the Web/Tech team for Limmud NY 2006. He serves as an
advisor for the Albany, N.Y., chapter of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization
and was selected to participate in the Professional Leaders Project, a
national initiative to renew the Jewish professional sector. Jason holds a
Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University at Albany.
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Daniel Septimus (Editor-in-Chief)
is a writer, educator, and book critic. He hosts the 92nd Street Y's Jewish
Literary Exchange and his literature column, "Reading Between the
Lines," is published monthly in the Jerusalem
Post. Daniel was a founding editor of MyJewishLearning.com. He holds an
MA in creative writing from the University of Manchester (UK).
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Meredith Kesner Lewis
(Senior Editor) holds an MA in Hebrew and Judaic studies and an MPA in
non-profit finance from New York University. She received a BS in journalism
from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Meredith is
also an advisor for United Synagogue Youth in the Westchester and Rockland
Counties area.
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Shoshanna Lockshin
(Associate Editor) is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where
she earned a degree in History and Jewish Studies. She has worked in online
Jewish education in various capacities, writing for Ten Minutes of Torah
(Union for Reform Judaism) and for the Internet Department of the
International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. Shoshanna is a
graduate student at Columbia University Teachers College.
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Matthue Roth
(Associate Editor) is the author of Never Mind the Goldbergs, an ALA Popular Paperback and an NYPL
Best Book of the Year, as well as the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go and the novels Losers and Candy in Action.
He graduated from the George Washington University and Charles University in
Prague, where he majored in anthropology and comparative religion. He is also
Educational Director of G-dcast.com, and teaches, lectures and tours as a
performance poet.
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Joshua Gershman
(Marketing & Communications Associate) is a graduate of the State
University of New York at Albany where he received his degree in English, as
well as a minor in Art History. He is also an independent website developer
and the former director for the website for Temple Beth Shalom in Mahopac,
NY, where he developed and published the site from the ground up.
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Heather Smith
(Accounts Manager) is an
accounting professional with several years experience working in non-profit
organizations both public and private.
She is currently responsible for the financial operations of The
Bronfman Youth Fellowships and the Curriculum Initiative in addition to
MyJewishLearning. She is a notary
public in the state of New York and a certified tax preparer.
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Michael Kress
(Founding Editor-in-Chief) served as editor-in-chief of MyJewishLearning
from its inception in September 2001 until June 2005. He is currently an
editor at Beliefnet.com. Michael is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and
Yale, and his articles on religion and spirituality have appeared in Newsweek, The Dallas Morning News, Slate.com, The Boston Globe, Mental
Floss, and many other publications.
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