MAROM, The Masorti Center for Vitalised Judaism, is the Young Adults division of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues and has officially been running for 7 years. It is composed of two halves: "MAROM-on-Campus" and "MAROM Young Adults," run by the University Fieldworker and Young Adults Project Coordinator. The Fieldworker works on several joint events and trips with the Project Coordinator throughout the year, fusing together these two age brackets of MAROM (18-22 and 22-35).

Jackie Gerber, University Fieldworker

Jackie grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ in the United States where she was an active member of a Conservative community. She is a recent graduate from the Joint Program between the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University where she earned degrees in Bible and in Neuroscience. She was very active in both the JTS and Columbia Jewish communities,  in the her last year alone serving as Senior Class President, Newsletter editor, and formal ball chair for JTS and as board member for Lalekhet, a Jewish minyan/group at Columbia devoted to the intersection of Jewish law and modernity. She has a lifelong love of Jewish living and learning and is really excited to share this passion with university students!

As the MAROM University Fieldworker, Jackie provides outreach and support for Masorti university students by facilitating a team of student leaders, planning trips abroad, and teaching classes on a variety of subjects at campuses. Look for her to buy you a drink at a university near you.

Jackie is currently living in Finchley at the Noam bayit. You can contact her at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sarah Braybrooke, Noam Bogrim Worker

Sarah grew up in London and has been an enthusiastic member of Noam for 8 years, participating in its gap year program four years ago, when she spent time studying in the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and volunteering in a Druse village. She recently graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Nottingham, where she was involved in various community volunteering and fundraising projects, and taught GCSE Jewish Studies in the local progressive synagogue. Sarah is now working full time for Noam, where she is fulfilling a long-held passion for Social Action and Masorti Judaism in her work with students and younger members of the community. Sarah is particularly interested in interfaith work and the rights of Asylum seekers, and passionate about youth participation and activism. This year she will be visiting many universities, along with Jackie, and supporting Masorti students there in pursuing Jewish involvement and Social Action projects.

Matt Plen, AMS Movement Director

Matt Plen grew up in the UK and was Mazkir of Noam, before making aliya in 1998. He has taught, lectured, and trained educators in many frameworks including the Conservative Yeshiva, the Masorti High School in Jerusalem, and Brandeis University. Matt has an MA in Jewish Studies from the Schechter Institute, Jerusalem. He is currently a PhD candidate in Jewish Education at the Hebrew University. For the next few years, Matt and his family will be living in East Finchley.

As Movement Director, Matt's brief is the strategic development of Masorti in the UK, in the key areas of education, leadership, and young adults' provision. He will be instigating the planned development of Marom, strengthening our communities' work with students and young adults, and fostering new leadership to take Marom into the next decade.

You can contact Matt via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Reli Israeli, Marom / Masorti Shelicha

Reli grew up in Jerusalem and has been an active member of the Masorti movement in Israel and of Noam Israel since the age of ten. She graduated from the Masorti high school in Jerusalem, and holds a B.A. degree in Criminology from Bar-Ilan University.

The initial focus of here work as a new Shlicha [emissary] here in the UK is to begin to understand the members of the communities, from Noam and Marom to the synagogues, their needs, their aspirations and to begin to build relationships. She is looking forward to working with students and young adults and strengthening their connection to Israel and Zionism.

Reli and her husband Yoel live in Borehamwood and are a part of the Elstree & Borehamwood Masorti community.

You can contact Reli via e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rabbi Daniella Kolodnoy, Community Coordinator, Borehamwood

Rabbi Daniella Kolodny was born in Jerusalem and raised in the United States.  She came to Masorti Judaism while studying for her undergraduate degree in International Relations at Boston University. As a student at Pardes Institute in Jerusalem she became involved with
the egalitarian minyan there and Kehillat Ma'ayanot in Jerusalem and very much enjoyed immersing herself in the Jewish textual tradition. Following Pardes, she worked for several years for the Jewish Federation before deciding to continue her Jewish learning in rabbinical school.  In 2004,  Rabbi Kolodny was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.  Since ordination Rabbi Kolodny has served as a U.S. Navy chaplain where her service has taken her around the world leading tefillah and educational programs for sailors from all walks of life.  In June 2009 she relocated to London to join her husband, Robert Owen.  Rabbi Kolodny is looking forward to returning to the Masorti movement and working with MAROM.

Rabbi Daniella Kolodny and Robert Owen, currently live in the London neighbourhood of Hendon.  Rabbi Kolodny is affiliated with the New North London Synagogue community.

Inbar Bluzer Shalem, Marom Community Coordinator

Inbar was born in Haifa and grew up among flowers in a community village in the Galilee. After four years in IDF service and a long trip to New Zealand and the Far East she earned a Bachelor degree in economics in Ben Gurion University and a Master degree in Humanitarian Affairs in Rome, in a joint program between Israelis and Palestinians. She become the first Shelicha (emissary) to the 5 colleges of western Massachusetts, USA, and back in Israel become the founder of a community based Hillel in Haifa, which she continued to lead for tree years.

To fulfill her desire for Jewish learning, she both learned independantly and joined many different pluralist Batei Midrash, having a blast learning the Gmara page by page. Inbar is happily married and currently living in East Finchley. 

As the Marom Community Coordinator Inbar is looking forward to building and empowering young communities and leadership development, believing in the power of a grassroots community to become more then the sum of its parts.

You are more then invited to facebook or email her on i This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Or check out her blog (Hebrew) at myjewishstory.blogspot.com

Campus Representatives

Birmingham: Richard Sarsby,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Cambridge: Miri Fenton and Aaron Burke,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   and  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Leeds: Sam Emden,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Manchester: Saskia Kurer,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nottingham: Nick Haringman,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it