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Nadine Epstein
Editor & Publisher
Nadine Epstein is Editor and Publisher of Moment. Epstein has been a journalist for 25 years: Her articles, essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Christian Science Monitor, Ms., and other publications. She covered politics and news in the Chicago bureau of The New York Times and worked as an editor and reporter at The City News Bureau of Chicago. She has published three books, contributed to several anthology collections and co-written a documentary film, which was selected as a semifinalist of the 2001 Academy Awards. Epstein was a 1989-1990 Kellogg Fellow for Public Service in Journalism, part of the Michigan Journalism Fellows program, now known as the Knight-Wallace Fellowship. She has been the recipient of many grants, including the D.C. Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. During the nineties, she taught journalism in the Master's Program in Journalism, Communications Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has a B.A. and M.A. in international affairs from University of Pennsylvania and was a University fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C. |
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Sarai Brachman Shoup
Associate Publisher
Sarai Brachman Shoup has 14 years of staff and consulting experience with independent, community and family foundations and nonprofits in Europe and the United States. For the past five years she has served as the lead professional at the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation (on a part-time basis), focusing on international, national and Detroit-centered giving. Prior to that, she was the program director at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and has worked on a consultant basis for the Covenant Foundation, Mandel Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, Detroit East Riverfront Project, and World Bank, among others. She has published academic and policy papers in A Jewish Life After the USSR, The Review of Rabbinic Judaism and for City Connect Detroit and the Kellogg Foundation. Shoup holds masters’ degrees in Public Policy and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan and graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, where she studied Russian History and Literature and was co-founder of Mosaic magazine. |
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Marcy Epstein
Associate Publisher
Marcy Epstein has taught in literature and cultural studies for 20 years, engaging institutions of higher education in dialogues of inclusion and difference, community building, independent and critical thinking and religious freedom. Most recently an associate professor at Baker College in Flint, Michigan, she has produced four volumes of essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism, including Points of Contact and Deep; her many articles, liturgies, and international lectures range from Gertrude Stein to disability after the Intifada. Invested in the connections between public and private life, Epstein has produced literary, cultural, artistic and religious events for private foundations and non-profit agencies across the US and Canada. Winner of a Neubacher Prize and Mellon Fellowship, she holds an undergraduate degree in English and Political Science (political philosophy) from Bryn Mawr College, where she studied with Chaim Potok, a doctoral degree in English Language and Literature, as well as post-doctoral advanced research fellowship from the University of Michigan. An active clay artist in Ann Arbor, Epstein facilitates the arts enclave Judaica and leads Bereshit, an adult education program on “Jewish evolution." |
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Mandy Katz
Senior Editor
Mandy Katz has written from China, New York and Washington on everything from nomads to real estate, Korean War vets to payroll outsourcing. Her Moment byline has appeared over articles on Albert Einstein, rebranding Israel, the future of Jerusalem, violinist Joshua Bell, photographer Annie Leibovitz and anti-Semites with Jewish lovers, among others. A Mandarin speaker and former international trade consultant, Katz earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale, majoring in East Asian studies and graduating magna cum laude. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, three children and a ravenous turtle. |
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Joan Alpert
Senior Editor
Joan Alpert has spent more than 30 years in the publishing world as an operations director, public relations manager, business developer and writer/editor. Working for profit and not-for-profit organizations, Alpert's career world has ranged from criminal justice to wine tasting and from war veterans to management consultants. She also taught high school English and French, was a Great Books leader, served as PTA and coop nursery school presidents and helped initiate a “reconformodox” congregation. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan. Joan lives in Bethesda with her physician spouse; they have three children and six grandchildren. |
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Eileen Lavine
Senior Editor
Lavine received a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a reporter, writer and editor in New Bedford, MA, New York City, Paris and Washington, DC. She takes classical piano lessons and serves as a volunteer researcher-writer with the William Steinway Diary Project at the National Museum of American History. |
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Susan Fishman Orlins
Associate Editor
After graduating from University of Pennsylvania in 1967, where she majored in math and minored in art, Orlins moved to Washington, DC. Over the next seven years, she received a master’s degree from Georgetown University and taught math at Northern Virginia Community College and then at Federal City College. In 1976, Susan became a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch and later at Morgan Stanley in New York City. She is the mother of three daughters and has lived in both Hong Kong and Beijing. Among other publications, her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. |
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Nonna Gorilovskaya
Senior Editor
Nonna joined the staff in 2006 from Mother Jones magazine, where she was an editorial fellow. She is also a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Prior to her journalistic endeavors, she studied the role of nationalism in the breakup of the Soviet Union as a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Armenia.She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where she grew addicted to lattes, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where she acquired a fondness for Guinness and the phrase “jolly good.” |
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Maxine Springer
Assistant Editor
Maxine is a 2008 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Missouri, where she majored in magazine journalism and minored in sociology. She began her time at Moment as an intern in the summer of 2007. As a hobby, Maxine collects all things pigs: banks, salt and peppershakers, stuffed animals and otherwise. |
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Sarah Breger
Rabbi Harold S. White Fellow
Sarah Breger is a Washington DC based journalist. She graduated in May from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in religion, political reporting and feature writing.Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, Sarah attended the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in Jewish history. While there, Sarah worked for the Daily Pennsylvanian and covered higher education, graduate students and the Wharton Business School. In 2004, she won a reporting award for coverage of the graduate students’ fight to unionize. Sarah wrote on the Middle East for United Press International and edited articles for Azure in Israel. While at Penn, Sarah founded Kedma: A Journal of Jewish culture, Jewish thought, and Israel which she edited for two years. The journal provided a space for vibrant intellectual discussion and continues to be a place where politics, arts and culture meet on campus. Sarah was selected as a Dorot Fellow in 2007-2008. She spent the year in Jerusalem, Israel, studying Talmud at the Pardes Institute and volunteering at women’s advocacy and dialogue organizations. |
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