Staff

  • Yoshi Silverstein

    Founder & Executive Director
    he/him

  • Ariana Starkman

    Program Manager
    she/her

  • Emily Renda

    Operations Manager
    she/her

Faculty & Teachers

Our faculty pool is continually growing. To read more about our current faculty, please see the Mitsui Institute for Jewish Embodiment page.

  • Kohenet Shoshana Brown

    they/she

  • Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife

    she/they

  • Rabbi Rishe Groner

    she/her

  • Sam Hipschman's headshot

    Sam Hipschman

    they/them

  • Shira Kline

    she/her

  • Skye Nunke

    they/he

  • Imani's headshot

    Dr. Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman

    she/ella

  • Caroline Spikner's headshot

    Caroline Spikner

    she/her

  • Enzi Tanner's headshot

    Enzi Tanner

    he/him

Community Partner Leadership

  • Samia Mansour

    Jews of Color: Cleveland — Strategist & Community Organizer

  • Ngozi Williams

    Jews of Color: Cleveland — Program Coordinator & Community Organizer

  • Rabbi Micah Shapiro

    Nariya Cleveland — Founder and Spiritual Director

Advisory Board

  • Zack Finer

    Intelligence & Security Analyst, State of CO
    [Formerly] Lead Teacher and Co-Owner, ApeCo Movement School

  • Ilanit Gerblich Kalir

    Managing Director, International Operations, Jewish Federation of Cleveland

  • Samia Mansour

    Assistant Dean & Director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Oberlin College

  • SooJi Min-Maranda

    Executive Director, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal

  • Rachel Siegal

    Chief Development Officer, Adamah

  • Rabbi Deborah Waxman, PhD

    President, Reconstructing Judaism

Cohort Alumni

  • Adela Basayne

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Bruce Bierman

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Rena Branson

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Rabbi Rachael Bregman

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Rabbi Daniel Brenner

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Kohenet Shoshana Brown

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Miryam Coppersmith

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Kimberly Dueñas

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Debórah Eliezer

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Erica Goldman

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Rabbi Maor Greene

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Rabbi Rishe Groner

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Sam Hipschman

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Shira Kline

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Rabbi Myriam Klotz

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Autumn Leonard

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Rabbi Noam Lerman

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Skye Nunke

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Mariana Pardes

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Jules Pashall

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Adina Polen

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Amy Price

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Monica Rey

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Eliana Rubin

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Cara Michelle Silverberg

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • JessAnn Smith

    Kollel Cohort 3

  • Rory Michelle Sullivan

    Kollel Cohort 2

  • Jeremy Tibbetts

    Kollel Cohort 1

  • Arielle Tonkin

    Kollel Cohort 1