jGirls+ Adult Staff & Advisors

Staff

Elizabeth Mandel

Founder & Executive Director

jGirls+ Magazine’s Executive Director Elizabeth Mandel is an accomplished documentary filmmaker, published writer, editor, and community activist. She has built a successful record of using media to…

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Bex Ehrmann

Senior Program Manager

Bex Ehrmann is a Chicago-based writer, theatremaker, and educator. They have received fellowships from Luminarts Cultural Foundation and Lambda Literary…

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Sophie Greenspan

Program Manager

Sophie Greenspan provides support to Kumi, Kol Koleinu, and jGirls+ Magazine…

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Rabbi Tamara Cohen

Chief of Program & Strategy

Rabbi Tamara Cohen guides and supports Moving Traditions’ strategy, program development and partnership work in collaboration with her fabulous colleagues…

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Moving Traditions

Parent Organization

Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth to thrive through the pursuit of personal wellbeing (shleimut), caring relationships (hesed), and a Jewish and feminist vision of equity and justice (tzedek)…

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Advisory Council

Aliza Mazor

Aliza Mazor is the Chief Field Building Officer, responsible for organizational learning and field building at UpStart. Aliza is the former Executive Director of Bikkurim where she helped to support J…

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Deborah Meyer

Deborah Meyer is the Founder and Executive Director of Moving Traditions, whose award-winning programs, Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood empower thousands of Jewish te…

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Dr. Andrea Jacobs

Dr. Andrea Jacobs is a feminist educator, researcher, and organizational consultant with over 25 years of experience working for change in Jewish and wider-world communities. She has developed resourc…

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Dr. Beth Cooper Benjamin

Beth Cooper Benjamin, Ed.D., is the Director of Research at Ma’yan, a program of the JCC Manhattan that provides feminist, social justice, and leadership training to teen girls and teaches vital ski…

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Ella Tav

Ella Tav currently lives in Israel in Kibbutz Beit Yisrael, an urban kibbutz in Gilo, Jerusalem. She grew up in New York City and attended the elite public high school, The Beacon School, until she de…

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Esther Kustanowitz

Esther D. Kustanowitz is a Los Angeles-based writer and consultant specializing in social media, pop culture, and Jewish community conversation. Esther is the Editor of GrokNation.com, a blog and web…

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Julie Sissman

Julie Sissman is an Organization & Leadership Consultant who has worked with large organizations, like IBM, and small ones, like start-up non-profits. Julie is active in the Jewish giving circle movem…

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Katina Paron, Editorial Consultant

Katina Paron is a journalism educator with 23 years of youth media experience. She is the Director of the NYC High School Journalism Collaborative at Baruch College and the editor of Dateline: CUNY. […

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Nancy Gruver

Nancy Gruver is the founder of the innovative, educational, independent social media company for girls ages 8-14, New Moon Girls. New Moon Girls was started as a print magazine by and for girls. Nancy…

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Rabbi Kara Tav

Rabbi Kara Tav is the Founding Director of Spiritual Care at Elmhurst Hospital, Queens. With twenty years’ experience in the Jewish world, Rabbi Tav is a skilled leader, chaplain, teacher and mentor…

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Stephanie Goldfarb

Stephanie Goldfarb is a veteran Jewish community professional who has been specializing in experiential Jewish teen education at the Jewish United Fund for over six years. Holding Masters degrees in b…

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Adult Staff Advisors

jGirls+ Adult Staff & Advisors

Staff

Elizabeth Mandel

Bex Ehrmann

Sophie Greenspan

Rabbi Tamara Cohen

Moving Traditions

Advisory Council

Aliza Mazor

Deborah Meyer

Dr. Andrea Jacobs

Dr. Beth Cooper Benjamin

Ella Tav

Esther Kustanowitz

Julie Sissman

Katina Paron, Editorial Consultant

Nancy Gruver

Rabbi Kara Tav

Stephanie Goldfarb

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