Meet our Office Staff

Tamar Fix, Executive Director

Julie Rosenthal, Receptionist

Devora Movtady, Business Manager

Stephanie Iskhakov, Event and Media Coordinator

Ruth Kobrin, LMSW

Ariella and Mendel Lazaros,
Youth Directors

Zac and Rachel Schwartz, Teen Directors

Shiffy Friedman , Yoetzet Halacha

Meet our Director of Security

Meet our Facility Staff

Julie Rosenthal, Receptionist

Julie, a Long Island native, is a graduate of the University of Miami where she majored in Creative Advertising and minored in Art and Marketing. While there, Julie was an active member at Hillel where she held several interactive internships and worked closely with the student body and leadership of the Jewish community. She spent a semester in Prague, Czech Republic where she studied Jewish History and had the opportunity to travel to many countries and visited various Jewish historic sites. Julie’s interests include traveling, photography and meeting new people. You can reach Julie at julie@lss.org or by calling 212-874-6100 ext. 105

Stephanie Iskhakov, Event and Media Coordinator

Stephanie is from Minneapolis where she received her Bachelors of Science in Sociology of Law, Criminology and Deviance. During her time on campus, Stephanie discovered her Jewish roots at the Chabad Center and later became the student body president of the organization. As president, she led the student board, planned events and directed Jewish learning initiatives. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, she worked for the Department of Homeland Security as a Behavioral Detection Officer. Although she enjoyed working in the security sector, shortly after getting married and moving to New York in August of 2018, Stephanie decided to change her career path and pursue her true love of spreading Jewish programming and learning.

Devora Movtady, Business Manager

Devora spent summers in Israel coordinating and organizing group shabbat meals in Jersualem.  Her passion to serve the Jewish Community led her to Lincoln Square Synagogue. Devora has been a part of the Lincoln Square Synagogue team since November 2013.
You can reach Devora at devora@lss.org or by calling 212-874-6100 ext 106

Ruth Kobrin, Social Worker, LMSW

Ruth is a social worker with the Jewish Board, and works as a Jewish consultant in  the Partners in Caring program of UJA Federation. A graduate of the NYU School of Social Work, she has served as a senior therapist and social worker at area  synagogues for over eighteen years.  She provides  counseling to the entire congregational community,  facilitates support groups, offers workshops in Jewish family life education, creates programs of interest to the congregations, and provides individual referrals to human service agencies. 

She has served on various UJA/Federation committees and was president of the Joint Passover Association which annually aided over 15,000 needy Jewish in the metropolitan area.  She and her family live on the West Side and are members of several orthodox synagogues. You can email Ruth at socialworker@lss.org or by calling (212) 874-6100 ext 103

Shiffy Friedman, Yoetzet Halacha

Shiffy has been serving as a Yoetzet Halacha in Manhattan since 2017 and is excited to now join the LSS family. She graduated from Nishmat’s Miriam Glaubach Center’s U.S. Yoatzot Halakha Fellows Program in 2015. She has been counseling women in the area of women's health and halakha, both through her role as Yoetzet Halakha in Westchester County and through teaching brides and couples before marriage. Shiffy has taught at SAR Academy and currently teaches at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School. She received her B.A. in Judaic Studies from Stern College and a dual M.A. in Education and Jewish Studies from New York University. Prior to that, she spent a year studying in Israel at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz. She and her husband, Rabbi Noam Friedman, live with their two children, Avital and Adir, in Morningside Heights, where they serve as the OU-JLIC couple at Columbia/Barnard Hillel.

Ariella and Mendel Lazaros, Youth Directors

Ariella and Mendel have lived in Manhattan for over six years and on the Upper West Side for the last three. They are both graduates of Yeshiva University and carry a combined 10+ years of experience in developing fun and engaging youth programs for Jewish children. Ariella and Mendel have run Youth Programming and Teen Clubs for Pesach in the Bahamas, Cancun, Mexico, and San Diego, California. Together, they are loving parents to an 18 month old daughter.

Mendel is a graduate of Yeshiva University, Accounting (14’). Mendel is a recipient of the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship and received the Meyer E. Shatz Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in Judaics Studies at YU. When he’s not co-directing the youth department, Mendel works for Smartling, a cloud-based technology business, using data to improve translation outcomes. Mendel has helped organizations such as The Boston School’s Fund to grow the number of school seats available so that every child can attend a great school.

Ariella is a graduate of Yeshiva University, Sociology (14’) and minor in Early Childhood Education. Ariella was the assistant director for the Playmakers JCC Camp in Cleveland, OH for three years and worked as TA, Special Education for the Park Synagogue School. Ariella has taught fourth grade at the 92nd street Y Hebrew School and Montessori based preparatory curriculum at the Goddard School of Manhattan. When she’s not co-directing the youth department, Ariella teaches 6th grade students of Chabad Hebrew School, and 3rd-grade students of Kivun, an after school Jewish educational experience for students of Harlem Hebrew Charter School.

Ariella and Mendel can be reached at youth@lss.org

Zac and Rachel Schwartz, Teen Directors

Zac and Rachel recently got married in December and have been enjoying living in Washington Heights during the week while spending Shabbotot in the Upper West Side. Between the two of them they've spent well over ten years combined working in schools, synagogues, gap year programs, camps and NCSY.

Originally from Sydney, Australia, Zac has been heavily involved in both formal and informal Jewish education for the last decade. He taught on the Judaic Studies Faculty in Moriah College, Sydney, Australia for four years and worked as a Rebbe in Yeshivot Makor Chayim and Shvut Yisrael in Israel. In the US he worked as a Rebbe at multiple summer camps in addition to being a Rabbinic Intern and Youth Director at Congregation Ohav Sholom in Merrick, Long Island for two years. He recently finished working as the Youth Director in Congregation Beth Abraham in Bergenfield, NJ, in charge of over one thousand children in the youth department. He has also served as the Scholar in Residence at the Congregation of Redbridge, London. An avid guitarist, in his free time Zac can be found playing basketball, cooking and exploring the outdoors. Zac also serves as Lincoln Square's Rabbinic Intern.

Rachel has a passion for working with Jewish youth, having previously worked as an adviser for NCSY New York. She currently works as an Executive Assistant as well as Merges & Acquisitions Manager for a health care company in Monsey, NY. Rachel is also extremely passionate about cooking, and can often be found whipping up yet another work of culinary excellence in her spare time.

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