Maya D. S. Borzak (Bronfman ‘15) is a licensed tour guide for the State of Israel and student at Haifa University. Maya was raised in a warm Jewish community in South Florida and made Aliyah in 2016 immediately following high school graduation. After completing a year of study in the Hadas program at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Continue Reading »
Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Bronfman ’97) is an associate professor in the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. He teaches about Palestine, Israel, the city of Jerusalem, and Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms, and also serves as director of Princeton’s Near Eastern Studies Program and of the Institute for the Continue Reading »
Marnina Schon (she/they, Bronfman ’10) and Micah O’Konis (they/them, Nonfman) are a real-life couple who create sketch comedy together as Couplet. With the help of the Bronfman Alumni Venture Fund and the Jewish Writers’ Initiative, they’ve been developing “Doom Scroll,” a Torah musical comedy web series. Micah and Marnina wrote and performed the musical “More Continue Reading »
Jeremiah Lockwood is a scholar and musician, working in the fields of Jewish studies, performance studies and ethnomusicology. His work engages with issues arising from peering into the archive and imagining the power of “lost” forms of expression to articulate keenly felt needs in the present. Both his music performance and scholarship gravitate towards the Continue Reading »
Andy Katzman ’93 is the Chief Philanthropy Officer of Willoughby Capital and the Executive Director of The Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Andy was a partner at The Bridgespan Group. At Bridgespan, Andy focused on building new platforms to direct philanthropic capital as well as the role technology can Continue Reading »
As a 1988 alumna of The Bronfman Fellowship. Laura has been deeply involved with the program over the course of her professional and personal journey. She knows firsthand the transformative power of the Fellowship experience and the unique contributions of this community. Laura is a passionate and dynamic advancement leader with experience in philanthropy, community Continue Reading »
Rafi Ellenson (Bronfman ’11; he/his/him) is a student at the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Prior to rabbinical school he lived in Jerusalem working for the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and for 0202: Points of View from Jerusalem. While in Jerusalem, he was awarded the Dorot Fellowship where he studied literary translation. In rabbinical school, Continue Reading »
Daniel Terna is a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography and video. Daniel’s work focuses on family and inherited trauma, blending autobiographical narratives with a tourist’s approach to exploring sites, be they memorials, cities, personal archives, or the body itself. He has exhibited his work in select solo and group shows at the Jewish Museum of Continue Reading »
Emily Bowen Cohen is a writer and visual artist. Her graphic novel, Two Tribes, will be published August 15, 2023 by Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins. In 2022,she was the Peleh Foundation and the NeighborhoodBK Artist-in-Residence in Berkeley, CA and Brooklyn, NY. Emily’s background informs her passion for creating complicated Indigenous characters. She is Continue Reading »
Tirtzah Bassel is a visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her figurative paintings and site-responsive installations draw attention to the presumed neutrality of ubiquitous spaces like airports and supermarkets, and Canon in Drag – a series of paintings in the style of iconic artworks – subverts the authority of canonical images through gender flipping and altered Continue Reading »