Rabbi Mauricio Balter (הרב מאוריסיו בלטר) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received an MA in Jewish thought from the University of Haifa. He received his rabbinic ordination in 1991 from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer. He attended the prestigious Educators Graduate Program at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew […]
Suzanne Farber is the most senior member of the staff at Masorti Olami and MERCAZ Olami. Suzanne has kept the books for both organizations for the past seven years, and works closely with our communities around the world as well as the World Zionist Organization and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael. Originally from Palmers Green, London, UK, […]
Nilli Glick Asaf was born and raised in Tel Aviv and has been working in Jewish education for over ten years: Between 2008 and 2010 she was a Jewish Agency Israel Fellow for Hillel at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and since she returned has been working for Hillel Israel as a program director at […]
Shyra Gross is the bookkeeper for Masorti Olami and MERCAZ Olami. Shyra was born in the United States but made Aliyah at the age of 12 with her family. Prior to learning bookkeeping she studied architecture and interior design. She has a knack for graphic design which she enjoys doing in her free time as […]
Tehila Reuben is the Director of Projects and Events at Masorti Olami and MERCAZ Olami. She has worked at Masorti Olami since May 2011 and has organized and coordinated missions and events including a mission to Budapest, Paris and London as well as the past four Annual Tribute Events in New York. Tehila is also […]
Ariela Rosemberg-Garbatzky was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. She grew up in the Masorti Movement and embracing her Jewish identity, made Aliyah at the age of 19, where she resides in Jerusalem with her family. Ariela studied at Hebrew University and the Hadassah Collage. She has worked in Jewish world and in informal Jewish education […]
Having made Aliyah in 2014, Louis Sachs worked at the Israel Democracy Institute following his IDF service. He studied music education and history at Simpson College in Iowa and prior to Aliyah taught in the Des Moines Public Schools. He is originally from Chicago, and is active in the musical scene in Israel, singing in […]
Reut Yahav has served for three years as the director of NOAM Olami. Born in Jerusalem, Reut grew up in Kehillat Ramot Zion in French Hill and was active in the NOAM youth movement. For years Reut pursued her passion for Israel by working as a tour guide introducing families and groups to the wonders […]