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Miriam Eljas Goldman is the founder of The Blueprint. At 23, Miriam started this media company and expanded it into an international publication covering New York, Los Angeles and Jerusalem.
After graduating from Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, Miriam became a reporter for the daily American Banker in Wall Street before creating The Blueprint. She has since coordinated Get Out the Vote 2004, sponsored by the JCRC, which drew nearly 1,000 young Jews as well as Israel Independence Day 2005, sponsored by Dor Chadash, which gathered over 3,000 young professionals and over 80 Jewish organizations. Miriam was also featured on television on 'CUNY Celebrates 350: Jewish Women in America' as a panelist. The Blueprint has also appeared in The Forward, Moment Magazine, Time Out New York and the JTA.
In 2012, Miriam sold The Blueprint to The Jewish Week Media group.



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Molly Livingstone has been living in Israel for the past seven years after graduating from Emerson College with a degree in Journalism. She has worked for various media outlets such as The Media Line, The Jerusalem Post and Israel21C. Molly is the founder of Israel's leading English speaking comedy troupe, Hahafuch, providing the Anglo community and Israelis alike with original sketch comedy and improvisation performances throughout the country. But what keeps her most busy? Molly is a proud new mommy to a beautiful and very active baby boy. While he takes up most of her time, she is still enjoying the finer things in life here in Israel like good food and really good food.



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Heather Robinson is editor of Blueprint and also a contributing editor at Jewish Week. She is a blogger at The Huffington Post and has appeared as a commentator on mideast affairs and politics on CNN and FOX News. In her spare time, she enjoys running, yoga, and doing imitations.



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Charles J. Rosenthal is a talented painter, animator and graphic designer. He has lived, worked and backpacked throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. He currently resides in Brooklyn with his long suffering girlfriend Kimberly Switzer, their beautiful golden retriever/surrogate daughter, Squid, and Frank the cat.



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Monica Rozenfeld is a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is fascinated by stories about adversity, culture and religion. Monica is currently earning an M.A. in health and science reporting, focusing in on women's health matters domestic and internationally. Her new hobby is photography. However, she still needs to figure out how her G11 Canon works.



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Yonit Schiller is a freelance photographer based in Jerusalem. Assignments have led Yonit to destinations around the globe, and her most recent work was published in the National Geographic Magazine, Jerusalem Post, and Presentense Magazine.



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Jeff Schlanger has developed and maintained nyblueprint.com website for the past 8 years. Outside of The Blueprint, Jeff cofounded and developed SmartVolunteer.org. Jeff works full-time at Teach for America.



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Rachel has worked in nonprofit communications for the past four years and has written for various publications including The Jewish Press, Everyone's Got a Story and Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. She currently writes for the Los Angeles Blueprint in addition to doing marketing and sales for all three Blueprint websites. Rachel blogs at www.jewishmommie.com.



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