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Meet our exceptional army of influencers, artists, writers, researchers, and educators. Bring us to your community to experience inspiring, cutting-edge, and unique perspectives on Jewish identity. We offer speaking, teaching, press appearances, writing, and consulting.

Associates & Digital Producers

Hen Mazzig, Senior Fellow

The New York Times described him as one of the most nuanced online commentators on Israel and Jewish people.

He is a globally recognized speaker, educator, author, and digital influencer. With an audience of over 650,000 followers across his social media platforms and content reaching more than 100 million users, Hen has become a trusted voice on Jewish issues, appearing as an expert in media across four continents, including outlets like BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, SkyNews, New York Times and more.

Named among Algemeiner's Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life in 2018 and 2021, Top 50 most influential Jewish LGBT voices, Hen recently received CAMERA’s Portrait in Courage Award. His debut book best-selling, The Wrong Kind of Jew, was released in 2022. This year, Jewish News recognized him as one of the Top 20 Young Jewish Creatives in the UK, and he was named among the Top 25 Most Influential Young Jews by The Jerusalem Post.

In 2019, Hen co-founded the Tel Aviv Institute, dedicated to researching and combating online antisemitism.

Shanni Suissa, CEO at Jews Talk Justice

Shanni Suissa is the CEO of Jews Talk Justice, a Tel Aviv Institute project focused on growing, nourishing, and educating the Jewish community in the diaspora. Shanni is the host of The Shanni Show, a podcast about everything and anything. She also moonlights as the Podcast and Social Media Director at the Jewish Journal where she co-hosts JJ Live and The David Suissa Podcast. Shanni graduated from IDC, Herzylia with a Bachelor's in Communication specializing in Visual Content. When Shanni's not helping save the Jewish people, you can probably find her painting a beautiful mural or jamming out to psytrance music.

Dr. Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki, Visiting Fellow

Dr. Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki is a historian and co-founder of the Tel Aviv Review of Books. She has a PhD in modern European history from NYU. As a researcher and translator she has collaborated with numerous  authors and organizations on the topics of Jewish history, inter-religious encounters and the universal in Judaism.  She is also the co founder and editor of Tel Aviv Review of Books, an online review that presents the entire spectrum of views from and about Israeli culture, religion, and politics to an international audience.

Dr. Matthias J. Becker, Visiting Fellow

A linguist whose research focuses on discrimination in mainstream society and the construction of implicit hate speech. Since 2020, Dr. Becker leads the international research project “Decoding Antisemitism”. In this 3-year pilot project, 9 researchers analyze antisemitism on mainstream news websites and social media platforms in Germany, France, and in the UK based on a mixed-methods approach, also integrating AI technology. who analyze antisemitism on news sites and social media using AI.

Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana, Research Fellow

Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana is Rwandan, Jewish and a queer woman. She is an author, creative director and social and art advocate. Mukantabana is the Co-founder of Kinswomen, sits on the Board Committee of POWarts, an organization meant to uplift professional womxn in the art industry, Ted Speaker and designer/ co-founder of YOAH, a gender-free children’s’ brand created with her brother Noah Polfliet. Her unique approaches to matters of race issues are global, located mainly in New York, she speaks four languages, lives and travels between Kigali, Paris and Tel Aviv.

Mukantabana has done consulting in anti-racism for small and large groups, her clients have ranged from corporate America, high profile art institutions and prestigious American universities such as Columbia and Yale. She has a distinct way of intersecting spaces and people. Her work aims at making the conversation possible and practical. She makes it available for people to build a realistic plan of action to be impactful and empowered in their advocacy.

David Christopher Kaufman, Adjunct Fellow

David Christopher Kaufman is a New York-based journalist. His work focuses on the intersections between politics, culture, media, and identity across the globe. Currently at the New York Post, he previously served as an editor at The New York Times and Global Digital Director at Architectural Digest, Kaufman regularly contributes to publications ranging from The Financial Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal, to Monocle, AirMail, The Telegraph, Tablet, and The Forward. Kaufman studied at Brandeis University and received a graduate degree in Journalism from New York University. He is co-author of the book "Pride: 50 Years of Parades and Protests.”

Daniella Rabbani, Community Manager

Following our 2022 Lab in Tel Aviv, Daniella joined our team officially as a Community Manager. An actress known for her roles as Rabbi Zoe on CBS’ God Friended Me, Jane in HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage, and extensive stage work with The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. She hosts the podcast Mom Curious, a safe space to ask moms of all stripes what the real deal is. BFA: NYU Tisch. She sheps nachas over her two kids Ness and Paz + advocates for a better world.

Tamar Teifeld, Associate

producer • Los Angeles, USA

Tamar Teifeld has been Vice President of Digital Marketing at Paramount Pictures for the last 10 years, prior to which she spent years at MGM in Publicity. Tamar currently oversees digital PR for all Paramount titles including Transformers, World War Z, Fences, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, and many more of the biggest titles under her lead. Tamar was also the producer of the wildly successful and critically acclaimed documentary A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Vasquez Story.

Aliza J. Sokolow

Aliza J. Sokolow is a pri­vate chef, food styl­ist, and pho­tog­ra­ph­er for both dig­i­tal and print. She attended the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Berke­ley and got her start in the culi­nary world work­ing for Jamie Oliv­er’s Food Rev­o­lu­tion project. Her work has won an Emmy, earned two Emmy nom­i­na­tions, and a James Beard lit­er­ary award. Her pho­tog­ra­phy can be seen in The New York Times, Archi­tec­tur­al Digest, Bon Appetit, The Wall Street Jour­nal, and Los Ange­les Times. Aliza loves to give back to the com­mu­ni­ty and has traveled all over the world to do so.

Zoë Buckman, Associate

artist • New York, USA

Zoë Buckman is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality. Notable solo shows have included Nomi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York. Public works include a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Live Gallery of New York Live Arts in NYC. Buckman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Shanna Fuld, Associate

Shanna Fuld is a writer / reporter / TV news producer. She was born in Queens, New York, and worked at NY1 News in Manhattan until she moved to the Israel in September of 2018. After working in general news, reporting on NYC politics and other issues plaguing her beloved city, Shanna moved her reporting to Jerusalem covering Middle East news, politics and culture. Since then, Shanna has been working in print, television and "modern radio" as she calls it. In 2020 Shanna launched the Israel Daily News Podcast which has become her main daily work. Shanna is also a community organizer who runs high quality events to help new immigrants in Tel Aviv connect to change-makers in Israeli society as well create a deep sense of community and connection for all who attend.

Nicole Zisman, Associate

Nicole Zisman is an artist and designer working across fashion, sculpture, print, and moving images to address fractured identity and assimilation within physical and digital culture. Analysis of her multiple identities (especially her Venezuelan Jewishness and her manufactured digital persona) is consistently woven into Zisman's work. As well as having her own eponymous label, Zisman is a fashion lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and a collaborator with Feminist Internet and Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Her work has been discussed and featured in the likes of Dazed, LOVE Magazine, SHOWstudio, The Face, Vogue Italia, Teen Vogue, Tatler, King Kong Garçon, Schon! Magazine, Culted and ODDA. In October 2019, she presented her first solo exhibition, יהי רצון / So Let It Be Your Will. In February 2020, she presented at London Fashion Week for the first time, as part of the Positive Fashion Exhibition at 180 the Strand. Recent successes include her first award of funding from Arts Council England for her exhibition, בטחון — Tranquila, Mami, which opened at Ein Sof Gallery, London in April 2022.
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