Meet the Moment Staff

	Nadine Epstein Editor & Executive Publisher Nadine Epstein is Editor and Executive 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.

	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.
	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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	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.”

	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.

	Jeremy Gillick Rabbi Harold S. White Fellow Jeremy Gillick majored in history at Wesleyan University, focusing on religious fundamentalism and the Middle East, and wrote his honors thesis about the Lubavitcher movement and Israel's radical right. After graduating in 2007, he spent a year in Portland, Oregon, where he interned for the Willamette Week, drank coffee and tended a large garden. Jeremy has also written for New Voices Magazine, In the Fray and the Jewish Advocate. His other pastimes include eating, reading, hiking and traveling: So far, he has spent time in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. India is on the horizon.

	Stephen Hay Business Manager Steve graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in education. He went on to teach 8th grade English at Three Rivers Junior High in Ohio for the next five years. He then moved to New Mexico, where he owned a cabinet business for 25 years. Steve then moved to Washington, DC, where he came across Moment Magazine. He has worked as the business manager for Moment for the past year.


	Helen Grove Associate Editor Helen is a junior at Pitzer College, a small liberal arts college in Southern California and a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. She is pursuing a degree in English and world literature, and hopes to write a thesis on the works of Toni Morrison in her senior year. During the academic year Helen works in a lab on campus where she studies infant development, specifically the difference in spatial abilities between sexes.

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