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Simon Klarfeld - Executive Director | E-mail |
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| Born and raised in London, England and having lived and worked in Jewish communities all around the world, including Israel, Russia, and the Ukraine, Simon has spent his time as an activist, educator and community builder focusing on the unity of the Jewish people.
Since arriving in America 17 years ago, he has been an integral part of Jewish life in Boston, San Francisco and most recently New York. His previous professional positions include: director of the Student & Academic Campaign for Soviet Jews (UK), founding Director of Genesis at Brandeis University, founding editor of Russia's anti-fascist magazine, interim director of birthright israel, North America, and Vice President of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. Simon and his wife Dara are very proud parents of Harry, Isaac and Sophie. |
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Carrie Fischbein - Program Director | E-mail |
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| Carrie, the newest addition to the staff, is thrilled to be a part of the Jewish Community at Columbia/Barnard. A licensed social worker, she began her professional career at the 92nd Street Y, where she was the Director of Teen Programs and a camp director. Her career has taken her to West Palm Beach, Florida where she was the Assistant Executive Director of the JCC of the Palm Beaches and to Deal, NJ as the Executive Director of Deal Sephardic Network. Carrie is a graduate of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, and has a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts. Carrie encourages you to stop by her office on the 3rd floor of the Kraft Center; her door is always open and she has the best treats! |
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Rabbi Yonah Hain - Hillel Campus Rabbi | E-mail |
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| Over the last couple of years, Yonah has been a part-time member of the Kraft Center rabbinic staff. Simultaneously, he served as the Assistant Rabbi of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU. This year, he is "ecstatic" to assume his new position as Campus Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard Hillel.
Yonah looks forward to getting to know as many of our students as possible through recurring educational initiatives, Shabbat and Holidays on campus, diverse religious and social programming and, lastly, as guests in his apartment on the Upper West Side ("I should say, our apartment, shared with my wonderful wife Elana")!
"With this new appointment, I welcome all students to be in touch with me; no conversation topic is too mundane or too abstract- from Jewish text and tradition to daily university life. Always feel free to stop by my office on the 3rd floor of the Kraft Center." |
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Chanel Dubofsky - Coordinator of Social Justice & Israel Programming | E-mail |
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| Chanel oversees the student groups doing community service and social justice work, as well as Israel-focused groups, and would love to talk to you about opportunities to do both. She moved to New York from Oberlin, Ohio, where she was the program director of Oberlin Hillel for the last four years. She was once a fellow with the Jewish Organizing Initiative in Boston, and in a previous life, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she drank too much coffee and took too many classes. Chanel is a fiction writer who enjoys NPR, celebrity gossip, folk music, cereal, art, and used bookstores. |
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Lyle Rothman - Rabbinic Intern (Reform) | E-mail |
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| Lyle is a 3rd year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-JIR and also pursuing his MA in Religious Education from HUC. Before moving to the Upper West Side, he called Long Island home. He graduated from Hofstra University in 2004 and then went to live in Israel as a counselor on a first year college program with the Reform Movement. When not learning or working, Lyle can be found watching LOST, Fringe, British Comedy, or even cooking. Lyle loves to meet new people and talk about Reform Jewish life at Columbia/Barnard. |
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Dina Rosenberg - Rabbinic Intern (Conservative) | E-mail |
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| Dina is thrilled to introduce herself as a rabbinic intern at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel! She is currently entering her 4th year of Rabbinical School at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She received her bachelors’ degree in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has just returned from a wonderful year spent living in Jerusalem and studying at Machon Schechter and at The Conservative Yeshiva. She is also a Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Fellow and will be acting as a rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Biloxi, Mississippi. Since entering rabbinical school, she has spent time teaching Religious School, working as a chaplain, working as a rabbinic intern at Chisuk Emuna in Harrisburg, PA and at Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia. She prides herself in her love for meditation, painting, and physical exercise. She looks forward to joining this community and heightening their spirituality together. |
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