Meet MEOR
How We Got Started
What began as a Jewish mentorship experiment on a single university campus has quickly grown into a masterwork of Jewish engagement operating on 20 prominent college campuses across the country and beyond.
Launched in 2005, MEOR’s unique brand of Jewish leadership training, sophisticated text-based study, and experiential education programming highlight the importance of Jewish values, identity, and community. In over fifteen years, MEOR has impacted more than 18,000 undergraduate students, encouraging them to connect with Judaism on their own terms and in their own time.
In 2016, MEOR established post-university programming to ensure that its alumni would have a familial Jewish framework for sustained growth as young professionals.
Now in its second decade, MEOR continues to ignite the Jewish flame within a new generation of young Jewish leaders who are hungry for community, continuity and connectivity.
MEOR’s Vision
To create a vibrant Jewish future led by a new generation that is literate in Jewish wisdom, culture, and heritage; inspired by a deep personal identity; committed to strong Jewish values; and engaged in Jewish community, civic life, and support of Israel.
MEOR Staff
Executive
Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld
President
Debra Kodish
Executive Vice President
Rabbi Yehoshua Styne
Vice President of Education
Regional
RABBI AARON GROSSMAN
Regional Director
MEOR New York
RABBI AARON DOVID EISEMANN
Campus Director
MEOR NYU
RABBI MENASHE BENEDICT
Campus Director
MEOR Drexel
RABBI MEIR BIER
Educator
MEOR Penn
IVY EDELSTEIN
Educator
MEOR DC
RABBI YOSEF EDELSTEIN
Campus Director
MEOR DC
HANNAH FLESHEL
Educator
MEOR Emory
RABBI YAAKOV FLESHEL
Campus Director
MEOR Emory
RABBI RICK FOX
Campus Director
MEOR Penn
JESSIE FRANCO
Educator
MEOR Columbia
RABBI YONI GANGER
Campus Director
MEOR Harvard
RABBI MEIR GOLDBERG
Campus Director
MEOR Rutgers
MARIEL GOLDSTEIN
Educator
MEOR Maryland
RABBI ZALMAN GOLDSTEIN
Educator
MEOR Maryland
RABBI ELIYAHU GREENBERG
Educator
MEOR NYU
ADINA HARKAVY
Educator
MEOR Upstate
RABBI ZACH HORWITZ
Educator
MEOR Columbia
RABBI CHAIM HARKAVY
Regional Director
MEOR Upstate
RABBI ARON KATZ
Program Director
MEOR Temple
RABBI Yonatan Banai
Educator
MEOR Stanford & Berkeley
RABBI ARI KORETZKY
Campus Director
MEOR Maryland
RABBI AVROHOM LOKETCH
Regional Director
MEOR Boston
SARAH LONDON
Educator
MEOR Rutgers
YEHUDIS SOLOMON
Educator
MEOR Boston
RABBI REUVEN STENGEL
Educator
MEOR Upstate
RABBI Elazar Freedman
Educator
MEOR Maryland
BATSHEVA FREEDMAN
Educator
MEOR MARYLAND
Katie Goldstein
Educator
MEOR Temple
National
SHLOMO GERSHENFELD
MEOR JINTERNSHIP COORDINATOR
DEBBIE INKER
Chief Financial Officer
DEBRA KODISH
Executive Vice President
DR. IVAN LERNER
Human Resources
RABBI YEHOSHUA STYNE
Vice President of Education
CHAGIT KLEIN
Operations & Logistics
Maya Maizlech
Online Community Manager
Board of Directors
Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld
President
THOMAS STEINBERG
Co-Founder
JACQUES BRAND
ERIC EVANS
IAN GLASTEIN
NANCY GOFMAN
ARIEL KOR
ANDREW PENSON
LISA ROSENBAUM
BARRY SKOLNICK
KALMAN WOLCHOK
Jeff Eisenberg
JONATHAN TRIEST
Advisory Board
KENNETH ABRAMOWITZ
STEPHEN GREENBERG
HOWARD WIETSCHNER
RAANAN AGUS
MALCOLM HOENLEIN
HOWARD FRIEDMAN
ISAAC APPLBAUM
JOSEPH JACOBSON
BRUCE TARAGIN