The faculty of the Jewish Study Network is composed is Jewish scholars with a variety of experiences and backgrounds.
See below for more information on individual members of our team.
See below for more information on individual members of our team.
Rabbi Dov Dukhovny
Rabbi Dov Dukhovny was born in Odessa and raised in San Francisco. He attended U.C. Berkeley for a year before leaving to pursue full-time Talmud study, most recently at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. His main areas of interest at the JSN are Bible, Talmud, and Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, and he is a part-time translator of medieval rabbinic texts. Rabbi Dukhovny enjoys philosophy and mathematics (in which he received his B.A. from Rutgers), and occasionally plays the piano. dovd@jsn.info
Rabbi Joey Felsen
Rabbi Joey Felsen, Founder and Executive Director of the JSN, hails from Toronto, Canada. A skilled educator, Rabbi Felsen teaches classes at the JCCs in Palo Alto and Los Gatos, as well as a host of other venues. He is the founding Board President of Meira Academy and a recipient of the prestigious Grinspoon-Steinhardt National Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. joey@jsn.info
Rabbi Dovy Grossman
Rabbi Dovy Grossman was raised in Queens, NY, where he attended Yeshivas Shaar HaTorah. He studied in Jerusalem at the Mirrer Yeshiva and most recently at BMG in Lakewood, NJ and recived his ordination from Rav Kalman Epstein. He is a Torah enthusiast par excellence. Rabbi Grossman spent summers in Santa Cruz before making the move to Palo Alto with his wife, Laeya and their four beautiful daughers. dovy@jsn.info
Rabbi Ephraim Kamin
Rabbi Ephraim Kamin joined the JSN team in 2008 as the Director of Campus Programs in conjunction with Meor. Rabbi Kamin works mostly with Stanford students and travels to Berkeley once a week to bring Jewish learning to the collegiate experience. A real coffee connoisseur, you can catch Rabbi Kamin on his long-board zooming between study sessions, couseling and livening up the campus culture. rabbikamin@gmail.com
Rabbi Avi Lebowitz
Rabbi Avi Lebowitz received his ordination from Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore and a Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University. An expert in the realm of Halacha (Jewish law), Rabbi Lebowitz published a comprehensive and scholarly work on the Mikvah (ritual bath), which includes an innovative commentary on the related Mishnaic tractate. He is also a certified mohel with a stellar reputation thoughout the Bay Area. avi@jsn.info
Rabbi Ezy Poupko
Rabbi Ezy Poupko hails originally from Montreal, Canada but has spent decades in American Yeshivas. Having been raised in a rabbinic home, Rabbi Poupko is familiar with all aspects of Jewish communal life. He received his ordination from Beth Medresh Gavoha in Lakewood, NJ. He enjoys the study of Halacha (Jewish Law) and is an outstanding public speaker. He is committed to teaching people from a variety of diverse backgrounds and can make the most complicated ideas digestible for all audiences. ezy@jsn.info
Rabbi Saadia Simon
Rabbi Saadia Simon was born in Israel, and grew up in London, England. He studied in Yeshiva in Baltimore, MD, and in Jerusalem, whilst simultaneously completing a degree in IT and Psychology, from The Open University, London. In August 2017 having recently received ordination from The Jerusalem Kollel, he and his wife Devora (originally from Montreal), moved to Palo Alto. The Simons grew up in homes committed to the broader Jewish community, and are passionate about making Jewish learning, values, and heritage accessible to Jews of all backgrounds. Alongside his JSN activities, Rabbi Simon is also the Systems and Data Analyst for NCSY, an International Jewish teen movement. saadia@jsn.info
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Yehudis Dukhovny
Yehudis Dukhovny (nee Breitowitz), who was born in Los Angeles and raised in Toronto, Canada, taught high-school mathematics before working for several years doing front-end database programming with SQL, VB.net, and C#, and more recently with Wordpress and CSS. Outside of coding, she enjoys working with her hands, sewing dresses for her three daughters and baking artisan cookies. She is currently the front office staff at Meira Academy in Palo Alto. yehudis@jsn.info
Sarah Felsen
Mrs. Sarah Felsen was born in San Francisco and spent her early childhood years in Berkeley before relocating to Queens, NY. She has an M.A. from Columbia University in Learning Disabilities. Sarah teaches 1st grade at the South Peninsula Hebrew Day School and couses in Jewish thought at Meira Academy in Palo Alto.
Sarah@jsn.info Laeya Grossman
Laeya Grossman was raised in Cincinatti and then Atlanta. Her family has been involved in Jewish education for several generations and she has inherited their passion for sharing the wisdom of the Torah. Laeya is no stranger to Silicon Valley and the industry of high tech. She continues to work as the Director of Sales of PriceManager, a software company based in New Jersey that allows companies to track online pricing. laeya@jsn.info
Malkie Kamin
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Malkie attended seminary before obtaining a Master's in both Special Education and School Administration and Supervision. She is a veteran teacher and has taught children of multiple ages, from early childhood through sixth grade. Malkie was one of the founding members of Our Place Too, an after-school program for teenage girls at risk. malkie@jsn.info
Fia Lebowitz
Mrs. Fia Lebowitz graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Masters in Special Education and practices in the Bay Area. In addtion, she is an outstanding teacher of Jewish studies in Meira Academy in Palo Alto and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Yeshiva Preschool in San Jose. Mrs. Lebowitz also serves as the contact person for Bikur Cholim in the region as well, attending to the needs of patients and their families who arrive for medical treatment. The Lebowitzs have six children. fia@jsn.info
Chany Poupko
Chany Poupko was raised in Lakewood, NJ and has been involved in education for several years. She taught primary school before moving to Palo Alto to join the faculty of Meira Academy and currently teaches Navi (The Books of the Prophets) to the high school students. She is the proud mother of two adorable children and is actively engaged in creating dynamic programs for the Jewish Study Network. chany@jsn.info
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