Our Team

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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.

    Daniel Septimus (Editor-in-Chief) was a founding editor of MyJewishLearning.com. He hosts the 92nd Street Y's Jewish Literary Exchange and holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Manchester (UK).

     

    Meredith 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.

     

    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.   

     

     

    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.

     

     

    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.

     

    Jeremy Moses (Editorial Fellow) has BA in American History and Modern Jewish Studies from McGill University.  He served as the advisor for United Synagogue Youth in Montreal.  He spent two summers working as a Unit Head at Camp Ramah in Canada. 


     

    Danielle Klapper (Accounts Manager) attended the Joint program between Columbia  University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and a BA in Jewish History and is pursuing a graduate degree in Mathematical Finance. She is also a former chair of the Columbia University Hillel chapter of Koach.

     

       

    Jordanna Birnbaum (Editorial Intern) is a sophomore at New York University in the Gallatin School for Individualized Study. She served as the Education Chair of Shalhevet at NYU and co-founded L'SHMA Lecture Series at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. She spent a year in Israel learning at Midreshet Moriah in Jerusalem.

     

    Joshua Reback (Development Intern) is a student at Rutgers University, majoring in Middle Eastern Studies and minoring in both Political Science and Linguistics. He has been both Education and Israel Coordinator for Rutgers Hillel, and is founder of the Jewish Philosophy Society at Rutgers University. He blogs on Israeli society and politics at acrazynation.blogspot.com
     

       

    Aaron Tabak (Development Intern) received a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University, where he was active in the campus Jewish community.  He has interned for a number of nonprofits, including the People's Emergency Center in Philadelphia, and the Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network. 

       

    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.