Devora Bengualid Goldstein is excited to join The Bronfman Fellowship as a Mancha this year. Raised in a Modern Orthodox family in New York with Moroccan and Canadian roots, she now calls Tel Aviv home. Devora studied Neuroscience and Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she explored the intersections of science, ethics, and Continue Reading »
Zurit Buskila leads the Kolot Beit Midrash and teaches Jewish Studies at Ono Academic College. She has been active in the social and spiritual spheres in Israel for many years, facilitating group and writing workshops. Previously, she lived and worked in the Negev, teaching at the Bina and Daroma southern Midrashot. She founded and led Continue Reading »
Tal Toren (Amitei Bronfman ‘15) lives in Jerusalem. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and Sociology & Anthropology from the Hebrew University and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Urban Planning. Tal grew up in Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, attended the Hannaton mechina (pre-army program) and served as an instructor in the Education Corps. She 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 »
Rabbi Rafi Ellenson (Bronfman ’11; he/his/him), the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Shir Hadash, was ordained in 2025 by the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, where he also received a Master of Arts in Jewish Studies and a certificate in Interreligious Leadership from the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium. Prior to rabbinical school he lived in Jerusalem working 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 »