THE LEADERSHIP & BOARD OF THE HALF-JEWISH NETWORK
ROBIN MARGOLIS is a matrilineal Jew. She is the daughter of a Jewish Orthodox Polish mother and an Episcopalian WASP father. She was brought up as an Episcopalian.
Robin affiliated as an adult with Judaism. Robin identifies as an Inclusivist Jew with a "culturally Christian half" (strong emotional ties to her Christian family and their rich Scots-English-Dutch Protestant heritage).
Robin is the Coordinator of the Half-Jewish Network. Her past activities in various Jewish communities have included teaching introductory classes on the Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and leading a Jewish Renewal women's havurah.
She is currently enrolled in an independent rabbinic program, and working on an Inclusivist Judaism project, scheduled to launch in 2008.
(To learn more about Inclusivist Judaism, please contact: binarystar@aol.com; to learn more about Jewish Renewal, please go to: www.aleph.org; to learn more about the Episcopal Church in the United States, please go to: www.episcopalchurch.org).
Robin has a master's degree in counseling and a paralegal certificate, has worked as a journalist and a freelance writer, and is currently employed in an administrative capacity by a legal institution in the Washington, D.C. area.
SARAH BUXBAUM is a patrilineal Jew. She spent her childhood as a member of a Jewish Humanist congregation in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and as a teenager and a young adult was a member of the Jewish Secular Society of Cleveland, Ohio. She has also been a member of several Reconstructionist and Reform synagogues.
She has a nice husband, and an extremely active baby.
(To learn more about Humanistic Judaism, please go to: www.shj.org; to learn more about Reform Judaism, please go to: http://rj.org; to learn more about Reconstructionist Judaism, please go to: www.jrf.org).
SUSAN LANDER is a born Jew with much family intermarriage experience, including two adorable baby cousins who have a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. She was a founding member of a Reconstructionist havurah in Philadelphia, and has been active in several Jewish communities.
(To learn more about Reconstructionist Judaism, please go to www.jrf.org).
Susan has worked as a manager in the organizing department of a large labor union, in their New York City regional office. She is a lawyer with extensive experience in women's rights, pay equity, and other labor and discrimination issues.