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

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. You can reach Stephanie at stephanie@lss.org or by calling 212-874-6100 ext. 104

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.

Victor Paterno

Antonio Cintron

Elier Guerrero

Jason

Lincoln Patrick