About me

In July of 2013 I became the Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire, a state-wide Jewish Federation dedicated to building community and providing resources for Jewish communities across New Hampshire. Along with an excellent board and many committed lay leaders and clergy across the state, I have the privilege of serving the Jewish community of New Hampshire from Nashua to Laconia to Hanover.

From 2007 to 2012 I was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Vilna Review, an online journal dedicated to exploring modern Jewish thought and identity through fiction, essays, poetry and the arts from 2007 to 2012. I also previously served as Assistant Regional Director in the Boston office of the American Jewish Committee, Director of Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel to New England and spent two summers as a creative writing artist-in-residence at the Brandeis Collegiate Institute in Brandeis, California.

I was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Harvard University, where I was appointed a Non-Resident Tutor in creative writing in Eliot House at Harvard College and a Literary Fellow in Dudley House at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. During my time at Harvard I also audited several courses at the Kennedy School of Government on international relations and human rights, wrote for the graduate student humor magazine and served as graduate student president of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel.Following the completion of my Master's degree at the Harvard University Extension school I worked for a year on a project on the Arab-Israeli conflict at MIT and was an adjunct professor in the English Department at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. I have also spent time in Israel studying Hebrew and Jewish texts, as well as volunteering for the Jewish Agency for Israel.

The opinions expressed on this blog are my own.

The goals of JFNH include:

-Preserving Jewish identity culture and values; revitalizing Jewish life
-Rescuing the imperiled and caring for the vulnerable
-Supporting programs that strengthen the Jewish family
-Providing humanitarian support of the people of Israel and world Jewry
-Improving the human condition of the general and Jewish communities through effective Jewish social action