Staff
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Yoshi Silverstein
Founder & Executive Director
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Ariana Starkman
Program Manager
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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.
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Kohenet Shoshana Brown
they/she
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Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife
she/they
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Rabbi Rishe Groner
she/her
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Sam Hipschman
they/them
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Shira Kline
she/her
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Dr. Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman
she/ella
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Caroline Spikner
she/her
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Enzi Tanner
he/him
Community Partner Leadership
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Samia Mansour
Jews of Color: Cleveland — Strategist & Community Organizer
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Ngozi Williams
Jews of Color: Cleveland — Program Coordinator & Community Organizer
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Rabbi Micah Shapiro
Nariya Cleveland — Founder and Spiritual Director
Advisory Board
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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
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Samia Mansour
Assistant Dean & Director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Oberlin College
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SooJi Min-Maranda
Executive Director, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
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Rachel Siegal
Chief Development Officer, Adamah
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Rabbi Deborah Waxman, PhD
President, Reconstructing Judaism
Cohort Alumni
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Adela Basayne
Kollel Cohort 2
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Bruce Bierman
Kollel Cohort 3
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Rena Branson
Kollel Cohort 2
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Rabbi Rachael Bregman
Kollel Cohort 2
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Rabbi Daniel Brenner
Kollel Cohort 2
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Kohenet Shoshana Brown
Kollel Cohort 1
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Miryam Coppersmith
Kollel Cohort 3
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Kimberly Dueñas
Kollel Cohort 1
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Debórah Eliezer
Kollel Cohort 3
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Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife
Kollel Cohort 1
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Erica Goldman
Kollel Cohort 1
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Rabbi Maor Greene
Kollel Cohort 1
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Rabbi Rishe Groner
Kollel Cohort 3
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Sam Hipschman
Kollel Cohort 2
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Shira Kline
Kollel Cohort 2
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Rabbi Myriam Klotz
Kollel Cohort 1
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Autumn Leonard
Kollel Cohort 2
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Rabbi Noam Lerman
Kollel Cohort 3
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Skye Nunke
Kollel Cohort 3
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Mariana Pardes
Kollel Cohort 2
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Jules Pashall
Kollel Cohort 3
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Adina Polen
Kollel Cohort 1
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Amy Price
Kollel Cohort 2
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Monica Rey
Kollel Cohort 3
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Eliana Rubin
Kollel Cohort 2
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Cara Michelle Silverberg
Kollel Cohort 1
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JessAnn Smith
Kollel Cohort 3
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Rory Michelle Sullivan
Kollel Cohort 2
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Jeremy Tibbetts
Kollel Cohort 1
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Arielle Tonkin
Kollel Cohort 1