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Michael Brooks - Executive Director |
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Michael has been Executive Director of University of Michigan Hillel since 1980 (when he was 11 years old). In addition to suffocating by degrees at Brandeis, Harvard, The Hebrew University, Merkaz ha-Rav Kook in Jerusalem and U-M (where he also taught history of Judaism for several years), he and his wife Ruth were among the founders of the Havurat Shalom community in Boston. There is now a 2nd generation of Michigan students lining up at the CCRB racquetball courts to avenge the honor of their parents who Michael used to beat when they were students here. (Please email him if you would like to take a number.) In 1997 Michael received the Covenant Award in recognition of his work as one of the country's outstanding Jewish educators and he once opened for comedian Yaakov Smirnof.
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Joel Marcovitch Assistant Director |
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 Joel Marcovitch worked for the Hillel of Broward and Palm Beach for three year before moving to Michigan. Originally from London, Joel has been involved with Jewish organizations since a young age. He is passionate about making sure every Jewish student on campus has a positive Jewish experience while at Michigan. Joel also leads the Taglit Israel birthright program, the free 10 day trip to Israel, and is looking forward to impacting Jewish students' lives and to show them that there is a lot more to being Jewish than their Hebrew school experience.
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Rabbi Nathan Martin Assistant Director |
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 Rabbi Nathan Martin has been working as an Assistant Director here at the UM Hillel since 2006. Ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC), Rabbi Nathan brings with him a passion for Jewish learning, social justice, and spiritual life - areas he supports student groups here at Hillel. Before his studies at RRC, Rabbi Nathan worked as a researcher on energy efficiency policy issues in Berkeley, California. He is blessed with a terrific spouse - Abby Weinberg, and a beautiful daughter, Hadassah Tikva Weinmartin.
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Sallie Kochin Abelson - Development Director |
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 Sallie Kochin Abelson is a 1967 graduate from LSA at The University of Michigan and has a Masters Degree in Counseling from Penn State University. She has been Development Director since July, 1998. Prior to that she lived in Ames, Iowa and was CEO of Contemporary Designs of Gilbert, Iowa for 19 years. She has two sons Michael a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin, and David a film editor in New York City.
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Marci Raver Director of Institutional Advancement |
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 Marci is a graduate in journalism from “the other school” (Michigan State University!), and has a Masters Degree in Advertising from same said school. Her marketing positions include the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan and Microsoft Corporation. She adores her two beautiful daughters Kelsey and Abby, and loves her 1.5 mile commute to her job, which is never the same two days in a row!
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Diane Redman Director of Operations |
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Allison Sheren Program Director |
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 Allison is originally from Princeton, New Jersey and she is a University of Michigan alum. After spending a year working in Washington, DC, she’s excited to be wearing jeans to work again and meeting tons of great students. She’s the advisor for all graduate student programming, as well as Israel groups, ways to get back to Israel, and Taglit-birthright: israel.
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Rabbi Rod Glogower - Staff Associate |
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 Rabbi Glogower is a native of Hamilton, Ohio and grew up in Pittsburgh. He earned a B.A. in English Literature from Loyola University while at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Il. He received ordination with distinction from the Midrasha of Machon Harry Fischel in Jerusalem and then returned to America to pursue graduate work at Yeshiva University. He holds two masters degrees in Jewish philosophy, from Yeshiva University and Brandeis University. He, and his wife Nehama have six children: Abby, Ari, Naomi, Shira, Yoni and Johanna (Jo).
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Beth Henderson - Premiums Coordinator |
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Beth Henderson has been working for UMHillel since 2005 and she loves it.
Beth is a native of Ann Arbor, MI and an alumnae of USL in Lafayette,
LA.
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LaVera Fish - Database Coordinator |
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Chris Stauffer Director of First Impressions |
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 Emil
was born and raised in Ortonville, Michigan. His cooking experience
and training ranges from Ireland to San Francisco and back to
Michigan. No one knows kosher cooking like Emil. His legendary
brisket has put him on the map as the kosher king of the Midwest!
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