Our Team
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Daniel Septimus (Editor-in-Chief and CEO) was a founding editor of MyJewishLearning.com. He holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Manchester (UK) and was, for several years, the Books columnist for the Jerusalem Post. Daniel is a member of the Steering Committee of Altshul, an independent minyan in Brooklyn. |
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Meredith Lewis (Managing 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 also has served as youth group advisor for USY, a supplementary school teacher, and an Jewish educational consultant. |
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Shoshanna Lockshin (Contributing Editor) hold an MA and Ed.M. from Columbia University Teachers College, where she studied as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. 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. |
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Tamar Fox (Associate Editor) has an MFA in fiction writing from Vanderbilt University, and a BA from the University of Iowa. She has worked as the editor of the religion blog at Jewcy.com, and is on the Editorial Board at The Jew and the Carrot. She spent a summer as a fellow at Yeshivat Hadar, and was a Senior Apprentice Artist for four years at Gallery 37 in Chicago. |
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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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Molly Tolsky (Editorial Assistant ) is a graduate of the fiction writing department at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and at work on her first collection of short stories. |
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Josh Gershman (Marketing & Development Associate) holds a BA in English from SUNY University at Albany, and a minor in Art History. Having also studied web design and technology, his professional life has included building websites and technological solutions for synagogues and businesses in Putnam and Westchester counties. |
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Jenny Figueroa (Business Manager) holds a bachelor’s in Business Management from Mercy College of Dobbs Ferry, NY. Prior to working at MyJewishLearning, she spent four years working for an accounting firm in bookkeeping and business management for high net worth clientele. |
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Jon Madof (Graphic Designer) is a web and graphic designer in New York. Aside from working with MyJewishLearning, his clients include Mediacom, FUSE TV, Theatre Row, New York University and the film Praying With Lior. In his other life as a guitarist and composer, Jon fronts the 'Jewish power trio' Rashanim and records for John Zorn's Tzadik Records. |
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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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