2026-2027
Gabrielle Bailey
Gabrielle Bailey grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She is passionate about tikkun olam, health equity, supporting older adults, and medicine. Gabrielle graduated from Northeastern University in 2025 with a degree in Bioengineering and Biochemistry, where she led community service initiatives through Northeastern Hillel and volunteered weekly with older adults. After graduation, she worked …
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Joshua Glucksman
Born in 2002, Joshua was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs. He was formally politicized in 2018 with the student climate movement and since has been involved with organizing for US racial justice and Jewish solidarity with Palestinians. He graduated with a BA in Religion and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College where he studied …
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Jared Hillel
Born in 1996 and raised in Montreal, Jared is a journalist whose work has taken him to just about every city and town in Canada, before making the international leap first to London and now to Jerusalem. Outside of reporting, he spends way too much time playing tennis, while also trying to make the most …
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Ariella Kissin
Ariella was the first member of her Russian Jewish family to be born in the United States, in Queens, NY in 2000. She has worked as a researcher and educator in many non-traditional spaces, including classrooms in Kakuma Refugee Camp, art therapy programs for Ukrainian youth, a Waldorf school in the West Bank, and a …
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Chana Lanter
Chana was born in 2003 and raised in Los Angeles. She went to college in the California Bay Area where she studied Philosophy and Religion and then moved briefly to Washington Heights, Manhattan, to study Gemara and Halakha. She and her husband moved to Kibbutz Ma’ale Gilboa in January for his learning and have just …
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Julia Larma
Born in 1999, Julia was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia and made aliyah in 2022. After spending several years in Hadera and Tel Aviv, she now happily lives in her favorite city, Jerusalem. She studied public health as an undergraduate and emergency and disaster management for her master’s degree, and has worked across a …
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Simone Rotman
Born in 2001, Simone grew up in Oakland, California. In 2019, she spent a gap year in Israel at Mechinat Kol Ami, exploring Jewish peoplehood and backpacking through the Negev Desert. Returning home, she worked at Youth Spirit Artworks, where she organized community murals at the Tiny House Village for formerly unhoused youth alongside residents, …
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Nava Schorsch
Nava was born in Berkeley, CA, in 2000 and raised by Jewish hippies in New York City. She spent two and a half years learning experientially around the world during Covid before graduating from Hampshire College with a B.A. in Political Science and Theater. She is passionate about emergent ritual, fostering community (specifically through elaborate …
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Charlie Summers
Born in 2003, Charlie was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and now lives in Jerusalem. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a BA in history and most recently worked as a reporter for The Times of Israel, where he covered crime, police and the prison system. During his undergraduate studies, he nurtured a …
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Gavi Weitzman
Born in 1999, Gavi is an artist, educator, and community organizer from Philadelphia. In 2021, she graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis with a BFA in Studio Art and a minor in Art History and Archaeology. While in school, she developed a multi-media practice centered around themes of embodiment, ritual, identity, and …