Allie Alperovich '93
Sara Heitler Bamberger Yozma
Rachel Bluth '91
Warren Braunig '92
Jonathan Bresman '92
Sandra Di Capua '02
Deb Dusansky '87
Yoni Englehart '96
Daniel Freeman '93
Roberta Goldman '07
Jeremy Hockenstein '88
Joel Hornstein '87
Deby Kanner '88
Ilana Lapid '94
Megan Lewis '90 - Past President
Allison Lauterbach '00
Joshua Neuman '90
Noah Oppenheim '95
Avi Orlow '91
Deborah Beth Medows '03
Talia Milgrom-Elcott '93
Matthew Rascoff '96 - Past President
Erin Scharff '99
Tova Serkin '97
Judah Skoff '96
Beth Zasloff '90
Allie Alperovich '93,
Former Chair – Alumni Prog. & Events Committee (APEC)
Allie Alperovich, a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Yaw School, is an associate at Ropes & Gray. Allie and her husband, Dr. Jeremy Simon, live in New York City with their daughter Emma.
Allie was a Fellow at the Samuel Bronfman Foundation in 1999-2000 and was the chair of the Shabbat Committee for the recent 20th celebration. She is a board member of Darkhei Noam (a traditional minyan on the Upper West Side) and of JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance).
Rachel Bluth '91,
Former AAB Member - TCC
Rachel Bluth was a real estate investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston focusing on commercial mortgage loan origination and securitization before leaving Wall Street to spend more time with her family. Prior to her five years at CSFB, she was a real estate consultant at Anderson. Rachel grew up in New Orleans, LA and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is still actively involved with the University as PennFund chair for her class. Rachel spends a significant amount of time downtown (Manhattan) at the Educational Alliance as a Trustee, volunteer and member of the Head Start policy council. Rachel and her family (husband Derek Smith and sons, Asher and Graham) are members of the Park Avenue Synagogue.
Warren Braunig '92,
Former AAB Member - TCC
Warren Braunig graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude from Yale University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in ethics, politics and economics. Prior to law school, he worked as a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and as the director of product marketing at BrandCities/Emmperative, Inc., an enterprise software company. Warren received his Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law, where he served as articles editor for the New York University Law Review and was awarded the Order of the Coif. During law school he also worked as a small claims court mediator in Queens County, New York, participated in the NYU Environmental Law Clinic, and was champion of the school’s moot court competition.
Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest in 2006, Warren clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Jonathan Bresman '92,
Former AAB Member - APEC
Jonathan Bresman is MAD Magazine's senior editor in charge of developing new talent and the author of the magazine's recent book, Mad About Star Wars. What has he done to deserve such a punishment? Well, in previous incarnations he served as a conceptual researcher on Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, as www.starwars.com's production correspondent, and as the author of the book The Art of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. Bresman was also Creative Director of Vis-a-vis/Kerplink, an animation and design firm where he co-created award-winning cartoon properties. Additionally, he supervised concept design projects for clients such as Mainframe, Hasbro and LeapFrog, and e-learning animations for companies such as Oracle, Pfizer and Autodesk.
Back in his undergraduate days at Harvard, Bresman interned for The Late Show with David Letterman, Lucasfilm, MAD, Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics, and studied animation writing at the American Film Institute's Television Writers Workshop. He also has a masters degree in Communication and Education from Columbia University's Teachers College. Now that he is a member of MAD's Usual Gang of Idiots, he wonders if it's not too late to become a nice doctor or lawyer.
Deb Dusansky '87,
Former AAB Member - DGC
Deb Dusansky was in the first summer program of the Bronfman fellowship in 1987. Ever since then she has been involved in Jewish communities across the US and in Israel. She has served as Director of religious schools from Conservative, Jewish Renewal, Community Day schools, independent schools in Colorado, Connecticut, and Georgia. In addition to being a professional Jewish educator for over 20 years, Deb is a family therapist and started the Boulder office of Jewish Family Service. She has served on JCC boards, Jewish family Service board, Kehilath AIsh Kodesh board, and American cancer society. For the last 5 years , Deb has served as the director of an independent and unique outreach organization for interfaith and jewish unaffiliated families. Deb served as a counselor for BYFI in '89 and '90. Deb has a BA from Wesleyan univ and masters in family counseling at Nnaropa university.
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Yoni Englehart '96,
Former AAB Member - FPC
Yoni Engelhart is currently an MBA student at Harvard Business School. He began his career as an equity analyst for the Center for Financial Research & Analysis (CFRA) where he worked on behalf of fund managers to uncover and research companies using aggressive, unusual or fraudulent accounting practices to overstate their financial health. He left the research desk to serve as CFRA's Director of Business Strategy until leaving the firm in 2008. Yoni graduated with honors from the University of Maryland where he studied Business Management and Philosophy. He is a founding member of the Israel Society of Investment Professionals (www.cfaisrael.org), a CFA Charterholder, and a member of the Boston Security Analyst Society. He lives in Brookline, MA with his wife Talia and daughter Yakira.
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Ilana Lapid '94,
Former AAB Member - APEC
Ilana Lapid is a filmmaker, writer and arts-educator who is currently the first Artist in Residence at Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. Ilana was born in New York City, spent her childhood in Jerusalem and Ottawa before moving to Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, with a focus on International Relations and the Middle East. Her first directing work was in 1997 as a counselor at Seeds of Peace, a camp in Otisfied, Maine for Israeli and Arab youth flown in from the Middle East. There she directed a multi-media theatrical presentation written and performed by the youth, which inspired her belief in the transformational power of stories. In 2001-2002, Ilana spent a year in Romania on a Fulbright Fellowship, leading a mural and photography project with Rroma children living in a garbage dump in Transylvania. This project resulted in an exhibit, "Dreaming in Color; Living in Black & White," shown in museums and cultural centers in Romania and the US. In 2005, Ilana moved to LA to attend USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she directed and produced several award-winning short films and wrote two feature screenplays. Her USC MFA thesis film, “Red Mesa,” a border story shot on 35 mm in southern New Mexico, is now making its festival run. As part of her Artist Residency at Slifka Center, Ilana is teaching a screenwriting seminar and organizing a speaker series of visionary Jewish artists, writers, filmmakers whose work engages global issues. More info about her film can be found at: www.redmesamovie.com.
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Avi Orlow '91,
Former AAB Member - APEC
Avi Katz Orlow is the Campus Rabbi and Assistant Director of Programming at the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. Avi was in the first class of rabbis from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, an open Orthodox seminary. He has been involved in many pluralistic Jewish programs. He and his wife Cantor Adina Frydman are the proud parents of two boys, Yadid and Yishama.
Erin Scharff '99,
Former AAB Member - DGC
Erin Scharff is currently a Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University Law School, where she is beginning her 1L year. She spent most of 2008 travelling with the Obama campaign, most recently spending her summer in Des Moines as the campaign's director of operations in Iowa.
Erin worked in DC for three years doing research and advocacy work. She was as a researcher in the long-term care division of the Service Employees International Union in Washington, D.C. Prior to that she worked as a legislative assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the assistant director for grassroots advocacy for B’nai B’rith International. In 2006, she returned home to Scottsdale to help elect Harry Mitchell (AZ-D) to Congress. Erin graduated with honors from Yale University with a BA in Religious Studies.
Tova Serkin '97,Former AAB Member - TCC
Tova is the Chief Business Officer at JGooders.com. Before joining JGooders, Tova served as the Executive Director of KolDor, a global network of Jewish leaders and activists dedicated to strengthening Jewish Peoplehood as an organizing principle in the Jewish world. Previously, Tova worked as development professional for a variety of other not-for-profit organizations in Israel and the United States including the Jewish Agency for Israel, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Tova is also an alumnus of OTZMA and ROI and a frequent speaker on fundraising, young leadership, and Jewish Peoplehood. Tova holds a B.A. (with honors) in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University (2002). Originally from New York, Tova moved to Israel in 2004 and today lives in Herzliya.
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Judah Skoff '96,
Former AAB Member - FPC
Judah Skoff is a graduate of Brown University and Boston University School of Law. He is currently an associate at McCarter & English, LLP. Judah has been active in the Jewish community as both a professional and volunteer. He was Bronfman Fellow/Program Officer at The Samuel Bronfman Foundation from 2003-2004. He served on the board of directors and chair of the program committee of BIMA: The Berkshire Institute for Music and Art, and as a member of the Young Jewish Diplomatic Corps of the World Jewish Congress. He is currently a member of ACCESS, the American Jewish Committee's young leadership program. During law school, he served as president of the Jewish Law Students Association, and was a member of the Young Lawyer's Division of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. He spent seven summers on staff at Camp Ramah in Canada. He and his wife Becky are active members of the Jewish community in Hoboken, NJ. Judah is thrilled to be a member of the Alumni Advisory Board, and the opportunity it gives him to connect with, and help develop, the Bronfman Youth Fellowship's alumni community. In his spare time, Judah is a playwright. Most recently, one of his plays was performed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. He is also on the board of director's of the Playwright's Theatre of New Jersey.
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