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Mrs. Aviva Orlian grew up in Baltimore, MD and currently lives in Monsey, NY. She has been lecturing, giving shiurim and has been a featured speaker for various community-wide women’s programming for the past 25 years, including the OU Women’s Initiative. Aside from her passion for teaching Torah, Mrs. Orlian is a full-time practicing speech-language […]

Hava Preil is an enthusiastic Licensed Israeli Tour Guide. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and holds an MA in Judaic Studies. Hava has developed and taught accredited courses in Tanach and Jewish Ethics for Naaleh/Woodmont College and Cybersem. She currently lives in Givat Ze’ev, Israel with her family. Hava can […]

  Michelle Margolis is the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the Vice President/President-Elect of the Association of Jewish Libraries and co-directs a digital project called Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. Michelle works on the history of Jewish books and libraries, as well as the […]

Ms. Chani Gotlieb is a dynamic educator, currently teaching in two prestigious girls’ high schools in New York. In addition, she lectures around the world to diverse audiences that span the gamut of Orthodox Jewry. Born and educated in Israel, Chani successfully integrates the best of Israel’s yeshiva education with her high-level academic training. She […]

Mrs. Sarah Lipman is the founder and CTO of Power2B Inc., and award-winning inventor of its 3D touchscreen technology. In two decades as a User Interaction professional, primarily in mobile and telecoms, she has authored numerous patents and published pieces, innovating new technologies years ahead of the state of the art. While living in Jerusalem […]

Reena Fohrman has taught Tanach for more than thirty years. She has inspired students at Bais Yaakov Baltimore, MMY Seminary in Jerusalem and, more recently, at Meira High School in Palo Alto, California. She’s also taught Tanach to women’s groups in Baltimore, New York and Israel, and at various holiday retreats in the tri-state area. […]

Dr. Esther Shkop is renowned for her dynamic and innovative approach to learning and teaching Tanach, which has fascinated and inspired audiences of varied ages and levels of erudition and Biblical literacy. She previously served as a Professor of Tanach and as Dean of the Blitstein Institute of Hebrew Theological College. A tenth-generation Yerushalmit, Dr. […]

Leigh Ioffe is the executive director and the lead developer of The Long Short Road, founded to ensure that communities receive the mental, physical, and emotional support they need.  She is the educator for the foundation’s unique mental health and suicide prevention workshops across the country, on Zoom and in-person. Leigh brings her idealism, passion, […]

Mrs. Sara Malka (Poupko) Reichman holds a BS in both educational psychology and Jewish studies from Queens College and a master’s degree in secondary education from Azrieli School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. She has also dedicated significant time to studying the great works of Jewish philosophy. Sara Malka has shared her […]

Rebbetzin Yael Marcus is the Rebbetzin of Young Israel of Queens Valley in Kew Gardens Hills, NY and has been a Rebbetzin for over 2 decades. She is a Kallah teacher and community lecturer, whose shiurim draw hundreds of women. Rebbetzin Marcus has been working in finance, in the healthcare industry, for close to 25 […]