Meet My Jewish Learning’s Staff

My Jewish Learning is all about empowering Jewish discovery for anyone interested in learning more, and our site is geared toward all backgrounds and levels of knowledge. My Jewish Learning was launched in 2003 and is now a part of 70 Faces Media, the largest nonprofit, nondenominational Jewish media organization in North America.

Rachel Scheinerman

Editor, My Jewish Learning

Rachel Scheinerman came to My Jewish Learning after a stint as the web editor at the Jewish Review of Books. She holds an MA in Scripture & Interpretation from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Rabbinic Literature from Yale University. She launched a Daily Dose of Talmud — a daf yomi newsletter — because, after all these years, she’s still trying to learn Talmud. She also loves publishing pieces on Jewish prayer, Jewish ritual, Jewish history, Hebrew Bible and Jewish customs from around the world — among many other things. She enjoys baking challah and decorating with hamsas. 

Rachel can be reached at rscheinerman@myjewishlearning.com.

Ben Harris

Managing Editor, My Jewish Learning

Ben Harris is the managing editor of My Jewish Learning. He oversees MJL’s daily Kaddish minyan, writes and edits articles for the site, and is the go-to guy for issues relating to prayer, spirituality and Jewish law. He was formerly an editor and reporter at MJL’s sister site, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and New York magazine. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he spends an inordinate amount of time in his home recording studio and sitting in silence.

Ben can be reached at ben@myjewishlearning.com.

Mara Swift

Education & Partnerships Manager, The Hub

Mara Swift is the education and partnerships manager at The Hub, where she plans educational programming for My Jewish Learning. She works with over 350 partner organizations across the Jewish world, which are able to share their online events with My Jewish Learning’s ever-growing audience. Before coming to MJL, Mara was the Engagement Director of Hillel at Temple University. She is not related to Taylor.

Mara can be reached at mswift@70facesmedia.org.

Interested in working with us? Job and internship postings at My Jewish Learning can be found here.