The Tav HaYosher depends on trained volunteers who conduct regular compliance visits with all Tav HaYosher certified restaurants.
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Chief Operations Officer: Michal Brickman
Michal Brickman currently resides in Manhattan where she works as the Executive Producer of the Israel Tribute Committee, Inc./Salute to Israel Parade. Passionate about health care reform and preventative health education, Michal earned a Masters of Public Health in 2007 from Columbia University. She also graduated from Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. In 2004, Michal served as a crisis hotline volunteer for Help Line, a project of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. She also spent a year studying Judaic Studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum (“Brovenders”) in Israel. Michal has served on the leadership team for Uri L’Tzedek’s Washington Heights Youth/Education Initiatives since May 2008.
Chief Compliance Officer: Dani Passow
Dani Passow is a rabbinical student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah where he is also a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Dani serves as director of alumni activities in America for Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and has volunteered at the Ansche Chesed Men’s Homeless Shelter. He recently completed Elat Chayyim’s Advanced Meditation Program. A graduate of Cooper Union's engineering school, Dani has studied in various yeshivot in Israel, most recently at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa where he was also a Madrich for post-high school American students. Along with his position at Maale Gilboa, Dani worked with Beit Midrash Yisraeli bringing secular and religious Israelis together to study Torah, and volunteered at the Beit Alpha Ethiopian absorption center. Dani combines his enthusiasm for Torah with a continued interest in the sciences and has spent the past three summers doing chemistry and bio-engineering research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aaron Lerner graduated with honors from the University of Southern California in 2002 with a BS in Business Administration and a Spanish minor. He was active at USC Hillel where he designed a service-learning curriculum for USC’s first alternative spring break trip to Uruguay . Upon graduation Aaron lived in Israel for two years where he studied Jewish texts at Pardes and Yeshivat Bat Ayin. Upon returning to Los Angeles he worked for four years as a successful investment banker. A passion for Torah and the Jewish people led Aaron to enroll himself in Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in 2008 where he is studying to be a rabbi. Mr. Lerner is a licensed California real estate broker and a Wexner Graduate Fellow.
Gabe Greenberg grew up outside of Boston, and attended college at Wesleyan University, where he authored a book on American portrayals of Islam. He studied in Israel for several years before returning to the states to attend YCT, where he's starting his second year in fall 2009. Gabe works in his spare time for the Jewish Farm School, a Jewish environmental education program. Ask him about it!
Karin Fleisch has been immersed in the food systems field since 2004, when she worked at Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity's LiFE (Linking Food and the Environment) Program, an award-winning, food-based science curriculum. She then spent three years at the Food Bank for New York City, advising and monitoring the City's 1000+ soup kitchens and food pantries. At the Food Bank, Ms. Fleisch won a United Way Junior Fellowship as "one of 25 emerging leaders in New York City's non-profit sector." Craving immediate, direct knowledge of food/agriculture, she apprenticed at Hava V'Adam Ecological Farm in Modiin, Israel from September 2008 until February 2009. Since then, Karin has been consulting for non-profits in the fields of food systems, food security, and sustainability. Her most recent client was Leket-Bank Mazon, Israel's national food bank.
Emily Winograd is a sophomore in the Double Degree Program between Barnard College and The Jewish Theological Seminary, where she plans to declare majors in Comparative Literature and Talmud. At Columbia-Barnard Hillel, she serves as co-president of Lalekhet: Jewish Law and Modernity and co-founded the Jewish Education Workshop, an initiative to promote the knowledge of laining and tefillah skills and broaden the base of religious leadership within denominational groups. This past year, she volunteered with the Everybody Wins program and participated in an Alternative Spring Break trip to New Orleans orchestrated by Hillel and the CC/SEAS Office of Multicultural Affairs, in addition to working with Uri L'Tzedek to help spread the word about the Tav HaYosher.
Laura Berger is the Strategic Development Officer for Uri L'Tzedek after spending the summer as an Uri L'Tzedek fellow. She is currently in her first year of law school at Fordham University. Last year, while studying Jewish philosophy and traditional texts at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Learning in Jerusalem, she served as a development and grant-writing intern for The PresenTense Group. She also spent several months volunteering with Bema'aglei Tzedek, including working on their flagship project, the Tav Chevrati. She graduated from New York University in May, 2008, with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies. She grew up in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dasi Fruchter, originally from Silver Spring, MD, was an Uri L'Tzedek fellow during the summer of 2009. She is currently a sophomore at the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, and is majoring in Urban Studies and Media Studies. Dasi is active in the anti-genocide network on campus and chairs the Tzedek/Social Justice Committee at the Queens College Hillel. She was recently named a recipient of the Kenan Scholarship, a scholarship that rewards students with a demonstrated history in public service. Through meetings with prominent community activists, participation in collaborative research, and access to a Leadership-in-Action grant, the scholarship heavily supports student-devised social justice initiatives. She enjoys making new discoveries about urban life, the Jewish community, and faith-based activism.
