Our Team
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Jason Brzoska (Chief Operating Officer) previously served as Operations Director for the Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel and technical coordinate for The Curriculum Initiative. 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. Jason holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the University at Albany. |
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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 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. |
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Shoshanna Lockshin (Senior 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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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. |
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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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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. |
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Jordanna Birnbaum (Editorial Intern) is a junior 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. |
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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. |












