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2007-2008 LTS Coordinating Team

Elena Dufner – University of Texas at Austin, 2010

Elena Dufner is one of the local coordinators for Kesher Leadership Training Seminar 2008. She is a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin, and she is majoring in Plan II Honors and History. Elena has been an active Kesher and Hillel member since arriving at UT and has worked at the URJ Greene Family Camp for the past few years as a counselor and ropes course facilitator. Elena loves to travel (looking forward to a semester abroad in Portugal!) and loves to laugh. Wayne's World tops her favorite movie list, and she is so excited to see everyone in Austin for LTS 2008!

Caitlin Smith – University of Texas at Austin, 2010

Caitlin Smith is a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Special Education. She is currently a cantorial soloist at Temple Beth-El in San Antonio and is a songleader at the URJ Greene Family Camp during the summer. Caitlin has attended Greene Family Camp for many years and the URJ Kutz Leadership Camp specializing in songleading. In high school, Caitlin was Religious and Cultural Vice President for her Temple Youth Group for 2 years. This helped her decide that she might want to be a cantor or rabbi after teaching special education. Caitlin is currently the Reform Minyan leader at Texas Hillel and is in charge of Social and Social Action Programing for her local Kesher. She is so excited to see you all in wonderful Austin!!!

Jill Goldstein – New York University, 2008

Jill Goldstein is a senior at NYU studying Broadcast Journalism, Jewish History, Cinema and Religion. Originally from south Florida, she is freezing in (but is totally in loved with) the Big Apple. A previous co-President of Hillel at NYU (thru Dec. 2006), she has also been the KESHER Intern and is enjoying her second year on the Kesher Leadership Council. She had the opportunity to work on the first KESHER Leadership Training Seminar at NYU in 2005 and is EXCITED FOR HER FOURTH LTS! She grew up at URJ Camp Coleman (with a couple years at URJ Kutz Camp in between) and has worked there for 4 summers as a counselor and educator. Jill loves coordinating community service and service learning activities as well as fun leadership development. One day she hopes to make documentaries, affect peoples lives, and perhaps make just enough money to buy a cardboard box to live in and some pink and teal paints (to paint the inside pretty just for her).

Aaron Press Taylor – Brandeis University, 2009

Aaron is a student at Brandeis University studying Sociology and Philosophy. He transferred to Brandeis from Yeshiva University in Manhattan this year. Aaron has been very involved in Reform Jewish life since high school and is especially interested in Reform Zionism. He prefers fruitty candies to chocolate and thinks anyone flying from Boston to New York is ludicrous- you should just take the $20 Greyhound.

©2005-2008 Leadership Training Seminar

The KESHER Student Leadership Council's Leadership Training Seminar is a student-conceived, student-planned, and student-run event, which is supported by the Union for Reform Judaism's KESHER College Department, the Men of Reform Judaism's Allen B. Gardener Leadership Training Scholarship Fund, and by the Hagshama Department of the WZO through TaMaR.