Dan Ain is a religion writer, an attorney, and a senior Rabbinical Student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. As a freelance reporter for The New York Jewish Week, Dan has covered the interplay between religion and politics reporting from both national political conventions in 2004 as well as on-location from Jerusalem. After serving as a Rabbinic Intern at the Makor/Steinhardt Center for two years, he will be joining The New Shul in Greenwich Village as a Rabbinic Intern during his final year of studies.
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Brad Balfour has been covering arts, pop culture, and cutting-edge media for over 25 years and avoiding a normal job as much as possible. Now he is editor in chief of timessquare.com, senior editor of Film Festival Today, and covers actors and directors for the new daily paper AM NEW YORK. He writes the L Magazine directors column and is a frequent contributor to G21.net, popentertainment.com, blackfilm.com, and brink.com. He threatens to make his own films as well and has programmed both screenings and panel discussions on cinema. Previously, he started his own magazine (New Review of Records), and consultancy (BMBmedia) and has been a top editor at publications such as Creem, Reflex, In Fashion, Heavy Metal and Irish Connections; his writings have appeared in such print and online publications as Omni, E-Radio, CDNow, Metal Hurlant, Spin, Vibe, FutureLife, Takarajima, Look and Seventeen Magazine. He lives in New York City. series and is developing several film projects.
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Miriam Cohen is a freelance writer living in New York. She has contributed to The Jewish Press, The Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, and CurtainUp, among other publications.
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Rachel Horn Cyrulnik is currently completing a Masters of Public Administration, focusing on Management, at NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Her interest in journalism began at Stern College for Women, where she majored in Journalism and served as Editor in Chief of the college's newspaper, The Observer. She lives in Riverdale, NY with her husband and son.
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Avram Davis is a writer and editor who for over a decade has written about business, finance, and technology. Avram is a senior reporter with MergersUnleashed.com and Mergers & Acquisitions, The Dealmaker's Journal. Previously, he was a deal reporter with mergermarket, Ltd., which is part of the Financial Times Group, and he was the content director of The Skinny E-magazine. Avram’s varied writing experience includes writing for FT.com, Women's Wear Daily, The Hudson Valley Business Journal, The Resident, and The Jewish Voice. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and son.
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Miriam Eljas is the founder and publisher of The Blueprint, an event guide for young Jews in the New York area. At 23, Miriam started this New York newspaper nearly five years ago and has doubled the print circulation to 20,000, expanding distribution to the Bronx and Brooklyn. Three years ago she and her team of 30 volunteers relaunched The Blueprint's website, nyblueprint.com, to serve as a daily updated event calendar for the Jewish community in the Tri-State area where thousands of organizations enter their own events.
A native of Silicon Valley and a graduate of Yeshiva University, Miriam served as 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 last year on 'CUNY Celebrates 350: Jewish Women in America' as a panelist.
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Naftali is a freelance writer who has contributed to The Forward, Lifestyles, Viewpoint, The Blueprint and other publications. His award-winning film "More Precious than Pearls" has been screened at film festivals at Jerusalem's Cinametec, San Francisco & Hong Kong.
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Peri Grabin Leong is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and has been working as a freelance designer in the fashion industry. She has worked for such companies such as Diane von Furstenberg and Ralph Lauren. Having completed programs at The Columbia University School of Mixology and at the Jane Packer Flower School, Peri develops many of her own food and drink recipes, and brings a sense of style and design to the table. Peri hosts numerous dinner parties and holiday get-togethers. Her culinary philosophy is cooking with minimal effort and ingredients that achieve maximum flavor.
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Moving from England to Australia to Israel and now America, Kelly is a seasoned reporter and editor with over 15 years experience. She spent 10 years living and working in Israel at ARIEL - the Arts and Letters magazine of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, as a news editor at both RadioWest and Jerusalem Post Radio and as an editor and reporter at The Jerusalem Post newspaper. She also survived and reported on the Al Quaeda terror attack on Israeli tourists at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa Kenya in 2002.With a background and training originally in theatre, Kelly established and ran Israel’s only professional English language theatre company.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 2004, Kelly established a monthly Jewish magazine in Orange County, worked as a senior reporter and editor at The Beverly Hills Courier and now freelances full time for a variety of publications including positions as the travel editor at Gayot.com and editor of the Beverly Hills and Westside Community News Projects. She also contributes to The Jerusalem Post, Israel 21c, The California Literary Review and The Washington National Opera. When not writing or editing she still finds time to direct plays and go to the beach with her dog, Bridget.
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Bracha Hermon recently made aliyah from New York City, where she worked at as a Judaic studies teacher. She currently lives in Ariel, Israel and is a student in the Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University.
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Sara Rosenberg is an art consultant who has worked in the museum, auction house and gallery industries since 1999. A graduate of New York University in Journalism and Photography, she continues to freelance her writing, while working part-time at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, New York. She will pursue her Masters in Art and Business Administration at the Sotheby's Institute of Art starting this fall.
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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 developed and maintained nyblueprint.com website for the past 4 years. Outside of The Blueprint, Jeff cofounded and developed SmartVolunteer.org. Jeff works full-time at Jupiterimages and lives on the Upper West Side.
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Lisa Sopher is the production editor for The Blueprint, where she edits the newspaper and the calendar on our Web site, as well as writes articles on occasion. Before working at The Blueprint she had worked at the Long Island Jewish World/Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, and the Forward. She is a licensed real estate broker and a licensed life insurance broker. Lisa also has a masters degree in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Barbara Trainin Blank is a Jewish and general journalist—with an emphasis on the arts and human interest—as well as a grant writer, public relations consultant, and playwright.
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