Jessie Mooberry
Jessie Mooberry
2015
Biographie
Jessie Mooberry is the vice director of Uplift Aeronautics, a UAV company building drones to deliver humanitarian aid. She is a serial entrepreneur and became involved in her first startup at Pitt while studying Finance and Chinese. She won Pitt’s Randall Family Big Idea Competition twice: first with The CON Project, which used crowdsourcing to fight corruption in India and second with Orro, which resold recycled electronics to raise money for local causes.
Jessie serves on the board of Uplift Aeronautics, Inc and People’s Light and Theater Company. She is a 2015 Ariane de Rothschild Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and is working towards her Private Pilot’s license. Jessie currently lives in Istanbul.
Project
Uplift Aeronautics, Inc and People’s Light and Theater Company.
Rabbi Jeff Berger
Rabbi Jeff Berger
2015
Rabbi
Biographie
Jeff Berger is able to bridge the divide between Business & Spirituality, between the West & Asia, and between Ashkenaz & Sephard. Having lived on three continents in three of the world’s most dynamic cities (New York, Tokyo & London) he now leads the Rambam Sephardi Synagogue project.
Before moving to New York City, Jeff (57) started life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, curious about the ancient wisdom of Judaism. During university, he developed a passion for Japan, living there for 6 years between 1987 and 1999, when he acquired proficiency in Japanese, became versatile in its culture and married Michie.
In 2000 the couple left New York and relocated to the UK where Jeff was European Manager for a Japanese consumer electronics firm. In 2006, leaving industry, he enrolled in the Judith Lady Montefiore College seminary course.
In Asia Rabbi Jeff became interested in Inter-faith Dialogue. He was on the 2013 Cambridge Co-Exist Leadership Programme, the 2015 Arianne de Rothschild Fellowship and in 2016 he’ll be a KAICIID International Fellow. Previous fellowships include; US Department of Education, Japan Iron & Steel and Nippon Glass.
His great passion today is working with people of diverse backgrounds to create and promote goodness.
Rabbi Jeff appears on BMTV’s Ask the Alim, on BBC Radio2’s Pause for Thought, and is published in local newspapers. He speaks publicly at Limmud Conference, to adult-education groups, at secondary and primary schools throughout the year.
Read more about Rambam Sephardi at http://www.rambam.org.uk/. You can support this work by donating online.
Project
Ordained in 2009, Rabbi Jeff has been involved in creating a warm, non-judgmental and welcoming Orthodox Jewish community in Elstree & Borehamwood.
Rambam Sephardi Synagogue aims to provide religious services and pastoral care for Jews living in the Hertfordshire area, and to create a model spiritual community that is an example of religious tolerance, intelligence and inclusion.
For their young families, a key mission is to provide a nurturing atmosphere, ensuring children grow up with a healthy understanding of their religion, as well as a respect for those from different backgrounds.
Read more about Rambam Sephardi at http://www.rambam.org.uk/.
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