Meet MEOR
About MEOR
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.
Staff

RABBI BERYL GERSHENFELD
PRESIDENT

DEBRA KODISH
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

RABBI YEHOSHUA STYNE
Vice President of Education
Regional

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

RABBI AARON DOVID EISEMANN
CAMPUS DIRECTOR
MEOR NYU

HANNAH FLESHEL
EDUCATOR
MEOR EMORY

RABBI YAAKOV FLESHEL
CAMPUS DIRECTOR
MEOR EMORY

RABBI RICK FOX
CAMPUS DIRECTOR
MEOR PENN
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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

RABBI AARON GROSSMAN
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
MEOR NY

RABBI DOVY GROSSMAN
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
MEOR BAY AREA

ADINA HARKAVY
EDUCATOR
MEOR UPSTATE

RABBI CHAIM HARKAVY
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
MEOR UPSTATE

RABBI MITCHELL JADIDI
EDUCATOR
MEOR RUTGERS

RABBI ARON KATZ
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
MEOR TEMPLE

SHOSHANA KAY
MEOR PHILADELPHIA

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
National

SHLOMO GERSHENFELD
MEOR JINTERNSHIP COORDINATOR

DEBBIE INKER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DEBRA KODISH
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

DR. IVAN LERNER
HUMAN RESOURCES

MICHAL LEVY
DIRECTOR OF THE WOMEN’S LEARNING PROGRAM

RABBI YEHOSHUA STYNE
Vice President of Education

CHAGIT KLEIN
OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS COORDINATOR
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
Since 2005, MEOR has inspired thousands of the most promising Jewish students on leading U.S. college campuses and effectively engaged them in the discovery of their own heritage and identity. MEOR programming is provided on both private and public universities that are distinguished by their academic excellence and/or a sizable Jewish population.