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Brian Cohen
Executive Director
brian.cohen@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-8095
Brian Cohen began working as Executive Director of the Kraft Center in January of 2012. He previously worked as the Director of Campus Services for Hillel’s Schusterman... Read more
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Rabbi Yonah Hain
Campus Rabbi
rabbi@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-1519
Yonah Hain helps shape the vision for Jewish life on campus: he develops personal relationships with students, liaises with university faculty and administration, teaches... Read more
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James Levin
Chief Operating Officer
james.levin@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-0453
Jim joined the Columbia/Barnard Hillel as Chief Operating Officer after having spent many years in the corporate banking world. Over the years, he has been very active as a... Read more
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Jocy London
Director of Development
Jocy@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-0451
Jocy is a Columbia alumna excited to be returning to campus as the Director of Development for the Columbia/Barnard Hillel. She received her Bachelor’s degree from... Read more
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Shana Zionts
Assistant Director
shana@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-4055
Shana Zionts loves being a member of the Kraft Center team! She has been at Columbia/Barnard Hillel since July 2013, first as the Director of Student Life and now as the... Read more
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Rabbi Noam Friedman
OU-JLIC Rabbi
nfriedman@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-1516
Rabbi Noam Friedman is the OU-JLIC Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard Hillel (the Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus is a program of the Orthodox Union in partnership with... Read more
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Rabbi Sarah Joselow
Senior Jewish Educator
sarah@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 853-1587
Rabbi Sarah is so excited to be joining the Kraft Center team this year as Senior Jewish Educator! Originally from Ossining, NY, Sarah studied History and Arabic at Harvard... Read more
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Navah Kogen
Director of Student Life
navah@hillel.columbia.edu
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Elan Kramer
First Year Engagement Fellow
elan@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-0449
Elan hails from Laguna Beach, California and serves as the First Year Engagement Fellow for Columbia/Barnard Hillel. Prior to joining the CB Hillel team, Elan received his... Read more
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Jaimie Krass
Director of Engagement
jaimie@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-0456
Jaimie can remember her first experience with Jewish ritual as though it happened yesterday, perhaps because it practically did: having never felt connected to her own Jewish... Read more
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Hela Lahar
Director of Israel Education
Hela@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 851-9695
Hela Lahar, joined the Columbia/Barnard Hillel team as Director of Israel Education this past summer, when she moved to NYC from Kibbutz Lehavot-Haviva, Israel. Prior to... Read more
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Liz Lebeaux
Development Associate
elizabeth@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-5112
Liz is a native Long Islander with an affinity for click-bait articles, recipe-swapping, and nonprofit development! Prior to joining Columbia/Barnard Hillel as the Development... Read more
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Brooklyn Michalowicz
IACT Coordinator
brooklyn@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-4125
Brooklyn is a proud Bruin and pancake connoisseur from Los Angeles, California. She enjoys telling stories about her crazy family, beatboxing, and fake laughing at puns about... Read more
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Deb Pollack
Office Manager
Deborah@hillel.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-5111
Deb is beyond thrilled to be part of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel team! Deb is from New York City and recently graduated from Barnard, where she majored in Sociology and Jewish... Read more
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Pedro Rios
Front Door Reception
Phone: (212) 854-0499
Pedro has been working at The Kraft Center – Columbia/Barnard Hillel since 2000 (a new comer). He knows all the students’ faces in that he has the most interaction with... Read more
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Mila Reznikov
Bookkeeper
mr3236@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-1775
Together with her family, Mila emigrated from her native St. Petersburg (the Leningrad), Russia, in 1979 where she graduated, with honors, from Leningrad State University and,... Read more
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Amaury Perez
Superintendent
ap3478@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-9077
Amaury has been working at The Kraft Center – Columbia/Barnard Hillel since 2015. He makes sure that all is running well and that the various rooms and spaces in the... Read more
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Elli Cohn
Clergy Intern
Elli@hillel.columbia.edu
A Chicago-suburb native and a graduate of Muhlenberg College, Elli Cohn is a fourth year rabbinical student at JTS and is currently serving as Koach’s Clergy Intern. During her first year at JTS she... Read more
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Dan Ross
Clergy Intern
dan@hillel.columbia.edu
Dan Ross fights for Truth, Justice, and the Jewish American Way? Or is it the American Jewish Way? He'd love to have that conversation with you. Entering his second year as a clergy intern at... Read more
