Aryeh Margolin lives in Edison, NJ. He plans on attending YU this semester to major in accounting. He was a counselor for post tenth graders this past summer and helped change his perspective on viewing other people’s personal situations. After meeting one of his campers, Aryeh figured he was a typical kid; he was energetic,
Travis Melamed grew up in Jacksonville, FL and was an active Southern NCSYer during his high school career, where he attended public school in Jacksonville. For the past two years he has studied at Yeshiva Aish HaTorah, after being pushed by NCSY to attend a gap-year yeshiva program in Israel. Currently he is starting his
Liora Nimchinsky is originally from Houston, Texas. She is in Stern College for Women pursuing a career in nursing, hoping to one day be a labor and delivery nurse. Liora’s family moved around as she grew up, oftentimes to a relatively small Jewish community, thus giving her the opportunity to develop personal relationships with community
Shira Nimchinsky is originally from Texas but moved around a lot and haven’t settled down yet. She is currently in Stern College for Women and she is studying Psychology. She was an NCSYer back in Texas and knew that doing Kiruv was something extremely important to her even back in high school. She is an
Adina Peck is currently studying Psychology and thinking about minoring in Quantitative Sciences at Emory University. She grew up as a curious and proud Jew in Charlotte, NC; yet, until high school, she didn’t know how deeply she loved learning Jewish topics, and she didn’t know that there were others – let alone thousands –
Esther Perez is a current full-time student. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and has been here her whole life. She is currently studying at Stern College for Women, pursuing a career as a Physical Therapist. She also recently attended Shaalvim for Women in Israel. She has never been involved with NCSY, however she is
Kayla Pulitzer is a current student at Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and she teaches at Bais Yaakov of The Lower East Side in Manhattan! She teaches first through third grade art, sixth through eighth grade computers and also teaches second grade Ivrit. She has been a NY NCSY advisor for the past two
Maytal Rahimzada grew up in Great Neck, NY and is currently majoring in Speech Pathology at Stern College for Women. She has been involved in NCSY for the past 5 years and was lucky enough to be a part of the Great Neck NCSY chapter as well as a current board member for Ahavat Shalom
Shoshana Rockoff, from West Hempstead, NY, went to SKA for high school and then spent the next year and a half learning in Israel at MMY. She is currently a junior at Stern College, majoring in neuroscience. She is excited about the opportunities through the Shevet Glaubach Fellowship because she is determined to develop strong,
Daniel Rosenthal had an amazing four years at DRS before spending a year studying at Aish Gesher, before staying for the summer at Aish HaTorah where he was able to learn Jewish outreach tools, have ‘one-on-ones,’ and even teach classes. Now he is starting the third year of his Computer Engineering degree at the City