Funny, isn't it?
So much noise, so little music.
What about the questions, the conversations, the exploration, adventure and authentic connections that lead us to what we actually want? Because they’re pretty simple.
We want to lead a life of meaning – to do work that fills us with purpose and fulfillment.
We want adventure – to have fun and enjoy life! To grow authentic roots and to branch out into new worlds.
We want to be good – to be better humans, and contribute our unique color to the full spectrum of light that makes the world a better place.
And we want to do it with others – a community of like-minded people. To make new friends, and deepen our existing relationships.
We don’t think these are complicated or too much to ask for.
And that’s why Olami exists.
Olami creates the kinds of spaces, opportunities and experiences that enable us to grow in goodness together.
Through conversations with friends and meaningful one-on-ones with mentors. Through exhilarating trips exploring ourselves, and bonding with the people and world around us. Through business networks of people who recognize that meaningful work starts with meaningful relationships. Or simply through taking time out every now and again to meditate, to remain still.
We’re a modern Jewish tribe.
We bring the wisdom and traditions that our families shared for generations into the present in a way that makes sense.
Together we explore the idea of what it means to be part of a community that cares about making the world better. This is what Olami sees as the Jewish way. Not just to go through life but to grow through life as a global community in pursuit of a good life, and a better world.
Our community is in 28 countries, with close to 300 chapters, and like each of us,
it's growing daily.
We are global
- Menora Palermo
- Cordoba Maimonides School
- Oxigeno – Rosario
- Olami Center – Cordoba
- Beyajad – Tucuman
- NCSY – Argentina
- Achim – Lanus
- Atid – La Plata
- Har Hamoria – Villa Urquiza
- Or Lachaim – Barracas
- Olami Soho (ACILBA)
- Olami Belgrano (Aish)
- Olami Ashreinu
- Olami Villa Crespo (Menora)
- Maimonides School in Tucuman
- OhrSom Student Melbourne
- OhrSom Student Sydney
- Melbourne Kiruv Project
Olami Vienna
- Baku Chabad
- Bryansk Chabad
- Kuba Chabad
- Sumgait Chabad
- Gomel Aish HaTorah
- Minsk Chabad
- Minsk Lech Lecha
- Mogilev Chabad
- Mogilev
- Ohr Darom – Porto Alegre
- Kollel – Rio
- Makom Goias
- Makom Hebraica
- Bait – Rio
- Monte Sinai – Tijuca
- Olami Faria Lima
- Ohr Somayach Toronto
- Montreal Jewish Experience – McGill U
- Olami Montreal
- Olami Toronto – McMaster
- Olami Toronto – Ryerson
- Olami Toronto – Thornhill
- Olami Toronto – U. of Toronto
- Olami Toronto – York
- Olami Toronto – YP
- Maguen David – Bogota
- NCSY – Chile
- Olami Chile
- Lev Tahor – Grenbole
- Olami Lyon
- Heritage Marseille
- Lev Echad, Aix En Provence
- Lev Tahor – Toulouse
- Makhome
- French Yeshiva in Israel
- Olami Montpellier
- Ohr Torah St. Mande
- Olami Nancy
- Olami Nice
- Olami Villaneuva
- Otzar HaTorah – Shema Beni
- Reguesh
- ReLev
- Nefesh Yehoudi
- Yam Shlomo – 13th & 19th Districts
- Olami Georgia
- Olami Berlin
- Olami Zussamen
- Chabad Budapest
- Tikvah Budapest
- Emek Learning Center
- Inspired Tel Aviv (ITV)
- JAM Israel
- Nefesh Yehudi – Ariel
- Nefesh Yehudi – Ashkleon
- Nefesh Yehudi – Ashdod
- Nefesh Yehudi – Bar Ilan
- Nefesh Yehudi – Be’er Sheva
- Nefesh Yehudi – Emek Azriel
- Nefesh Yehudi – Eilat
- Nefesh Yehudi – Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Nefesh Yehudi – Haifa
- Nefesh Yehudi – Hertzlya
- Nefesh Yehudi – Kiryat Ono
- Nefesh Yehudi – Netanya
- Nefesh Yehudi – Petach Tikva
- Nefesh Yehudi – Rishon L’Tzion
- Nefesh Yehudi – Rechovot
- Nefesh Yehudi – Rechovot Faculty
- Nefesh Yehudi – Sami Shimon
- Nefesh Yehudi – Savion
- Nefesh Yehudi – Sderot
- Nefesh Yehudi – Technion
- Nefesh Yehudi – Tel Hai
- Nefesh Yehudi – Tel Aviv Center
- Nefesh Yehudi – Tel Aviv Ramat Aviv
- Nefesh Yehudi – Wingate
- Nefesh Yehudi – Zfat
- Olami Herzliya
- Thrive – Hebrew U
- Thrive – Tel Aviv
- Way More Israel
Rome Kollel
- Almaty Chabad
- Astrakhan Chabad
- Riga Chabad
- Riga Beis Midrash
Aish Mexico
Porto, Portugal
- Bryansk Chabad
- Kaliningrad Chabad
- Krasnodar Chabad
- Lipetsk Chabad
- Moscow Chabad
- Moscow Izmailovo Chabad
- Moscow Juhuro Chabad
- Moscow Machon Chamesh
- Moscow Shamir
- Moscow – Yugozapadnaya
- Moscow Dor Revii
- Moscow Shaarei Kdusha
- Moscow Torah MiTzion
- Nalchik Chabad
- Nizhni Novgorod Chabad
- Olami Moscow
- Omsk Chabad
- Orel Chabad
- Perm Chabad
- Pyatigorsk
- Samara Chabad
- Sevastopol Chabad
- Smolensk Chabad
- Sochi Chabad
- St. Petersburg Chabad
- St. Petersburg Kollel
- Tomsk Chabad
- Tumen Chabad
- Ufa Chabad
- Ulyanovsk Chabad
- Velikiy Novgorod Chabad
- Yekaterinburg Chabad
- Tula
- Yeshivat Torat Chaim Moscow
- Johannesburg & Capetown Community Expansion
- Johannesburg, South Africa (OS)
- Madrid Kiruv Center
- Torat Moshe Madrid
- Olami Geneve Lausanne
- Aish UK – Birmingham
- Aish UK – Bristol
- Aish UK – FJL
- Aish UK – Leeds
- Aish UK – London YPs
- Aish UK – Manchester
- Aish UK – Northern Campuses
- Aish UK – Nottingham
- Aish/Seed UK – Borehamwood
- JLE Campus
- JLE Women’s Division
- JLE YPs
- Olami House London
- Berdichev Chabad
- Cherkassy Chabad
- Chernovitz Chabad
- Dnepropetrovsk Chabad
- Donetsk Chabad
- Kharkov Chabad
- Kherson Chabad
- Khmelnitski Chabad
- Kiev Chabad
- Kiev Chabad Lubavitch
- Kiev Kedem Chabad
- Kiev Podol
- Kiev Yidishkeit
- Kirovograd Chabad
- Krivoy Rog Chabad
- Nikolaev Chabad
- Odessa Chabad
- Odessa Tikvah
- Poltava Chabad
- Zaporozhye Chabad
- Zhitomir Chabad
Olami Uruguay
- Aish Buffalo
- Aish Penn State
- AishLA
- AishLit
- ASK Israelis
- Bayit Yisraeli Las Vegas
- Batya
- Charlotte Torah Institute
- Chazaq
- Edison Chaburah
- EMET
- EMET NYC Campuses
- Etz Chaim – Baltimore Young Professionals
- Etz Chaim – Towson
- Exhibit J
- Explore Judaism
- Greater Washington Israeli Young Professionals
- Ignite Young Professionals
- JBeatz
- JCRY (Roslyn, NY)
- JEM
- JET – Chicago
- Jewish Leadership Association
- JHubLA
- J-HYPE
- JICNY
- JLIFE
- JRC – University of Michigan
- JRC – Michigan State University
- JWAY
- LAJ
- LAMP
- Las Vegas Jewish Experience
- LINK/TLC
- MAJOR
- Meor Berkley
- Meor Boston University/Tufts
- Meor Brown
- Meor Columbia
- Meor DC
- Meor Drexel
- Meor Emory
- Meor Harvard
- Meor Maryland
- Meor NYU
- Meor Penn
- Meor Philadelphia YPs
- Meor Rutgers
- Meor Stanford
- Meor Temple
- Meor Tufts
- Meor Upstate – Cornell
- Meor Upstate – Binghamton
- Mesorah DC
- Mesorah NJ
- NCSY Great Neck
- NCSY New York
- NCSY Southern
- Netivot
- Netzach
- Norfolk Community Kollel
- Ohel Sarah Women’s House
- Ohr on Campus Boca Boys
- Ohr on Campus Miami Girls
- Ohr on Campus NMB Boys
- Olami Arizona State University
- Olami Boca
- Olami Dallas
- Olami Denver
- Olami House @ the Shaar
- Olami House for Women
- Olami Manhattan
- Olami Miami University
- Olami Oregon
- Olami Texas
- Olami University of Arizona
- Olami University of Cincinnati
- Olami UCLA
- Olami West
- Partners Detroit
- Pico Bais Medrash
- Project 613
- Project Shoresh of RI
- RAJE Baltimore
- RAJE New York
- RAJE Philadelphia
- San Diego Jewish Experience (SAJE)
- The Chevra
- The Interactive Jewish Community
- The Kehilla
- Torah in the City
- Yehudi Gainesville
- Yehudi Miami
- Yehudi Orlando
- Yehudi Southern Florida Young Professionals
- Yehudi Tallahassee
- Yisraelink
- Zehut Yehudi
OUR TEAM

Rabbi David Markowitz
Executive Vice President of Olami and Managing Director of Vision and Partnerships

Yisrael Schwebel
Executive Vice President of Olami and Managing Director of Finance

Rabbi Raphael Butler
President

Michal Nordmann
Director of Global Brand and Marketing

Rabbi Avi Cassel
Executive Vice President of Olami and Managing Director of North America, the UK, and the Former Soviet Union

Miriam Tennenbaum
Vice President of Development

Adina Stilerman
Director of Expansion, Olami Souled

Liat Garelick
Program Director, Seriously Souled

Bashi Rosen
Program Director, JGroup

Rabbi Gidon Shoshan
Deputy Regional Director of North America and UK

Rabbi Meir Rosenberg
Executive Vice President of Olami and Managing Director of Latin America, France, Germany, and Spain

Rabbi Arieh Marciano
Regional Director, France

Rabbi Yakov Tipograf
Regional Director, FSU

Rabbi Eli Ilani
Executive Vice President of Olami and Managing Director of Israel

Rabbi Ari Gruen
Director of Trips

Estee Lavitt
Senior Project Manager

Rabbi Shlomo Landau
Director of Community Mentors

Charlie Harary, Esq.
Chief of Talent

Mr. Gilles Gade
Chairman, CEO & President, Bank River Cross

Mr. Bernard Heitner
The Heitner Group

Mr. Ralph Herzka
Chairman & CEO, Meridian Capital Group

Mr. Barry Karfunkel
Chief Executive Officer, National General Holdings Corp

Mr. Peter A. Hochfelder
Founder And Managing Member Of Brahman Management, LLC

Mr. Michael Leven
Legendary business executive and visionary philanthropist

Mr. David L. Moore
Chairman/CEO, Moore Holdings LLC

Dr. Anthony Moshal
Business entrepreneur

Mr. Michael Shabsels
CEO, Damis Holdings

Mr. Aaron Wolfson
Principal, the Wolfson Group
Aaron is a principal of the Wolfson Group, a family office formed by his father, the late patriarch of the family, Zev Wolfson. The Wolfson companies, led by Aaron, have diverse holdings, which include the direct ownership of commercial office buildings in lower Manhattan, interests in hedge funds and leveraged buy-out funds, venture investments and direct investments in a variety of private and public companies.
OUR TEAM
Staff

Rabbi David Markowitz
Managing Director

Yisrael Schwebel
chief financial officer

Rabbi Raphael Butler
President

Michal Nordmann
Director of Global Brand and Marketing

Rabbi Avi Cassel
Regional Director of North America and UK

Miriam Tennenbaum
Vice President of Development

Adina Stilerman
Director of Expansion, Olami Souled

Liat Garelick
Program Director, Seriously Souled

Bashi Rosen
Program Director, JGroup

Rabbi Gidon Shoshan
Deputy Regional Director of North America and UK

Rabbi Meir Rosenberg
Regional Director, Latin America

Rabbi Arieh Marciano
Regional Director, France

Rabbi Yakov Tipograf
Regional Director, FSU

Rabbi Eli Ilani
Regional Director, Israel

Rabbi Ari Gruen
Director of Trips

Estee Lavitt
Senior Project Manager

Rabbi Shlomo Landau
Director of Community Mentors

Charlie Harary, Esq.
Chief of Talent
Advisory board

Mr. Gilles Gade
Chairman, CEO & President, Bank River Cross

Mr. Bernard Heitner
The Heitner Group

Mr. Ralph Herzka
Chairman & CEO, Meridian Capital Group

Mr. Peter A. Hochfelder
founder and Managing Member of Brahman Management, LLC

Mr. Barry Karfunkel
Chief Executive Officer, National General Holdings Corp

Mr. Michael Leven
Legendary business executive and visionary philanthropist

Mr. David L. Moore
Chairman/CEO, Moore Holdings LLC

Dr. Anthony Moshal
Strategic Advisor

Mr. Michael Shabsel
CEO, Damis Holdings

Mr. Aaron Wolfson
Chief of Talent
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