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Princeton Seminar Fellows

The Princeton Seminar Fellows Program introduces students from diverse intellectual backgrounds to foundational ideas in Chabad Hasidic thought, offering the opportunity for a deep and sustained engagement with original Hasidic texts. Fellows participate in one-on-one study sessions with PIHT educators and gather weekly in Princeton for a discussion-based seminar that explores these texts in a dynamic, interdisciplinary setting. The fellowship’s four-hour weekly commitment fosters meaningful and rigorous conversations between Hasidic thought and a wide range of academic disciplines.

Meet Our 2025-2026
Seminar Fellows!

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Reyna Perelis

Reyna is a junior from Teaneck, NJ studying Psychology. At Princeton, she is involved in an interfaith student group and is a residential advisor. She has studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem and at Yeshivat Hadar, and is excited to be challenged and enriched by learning Chassidus with the fellowship. 

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Dima Ezrokhi

Dima is a PhD candidate at Princeton studying Classics. Born in Kyiv and raised in Nazareth and Jerusalem, he earned his BA in Classics and Philosophy and MA in Classics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also taught Latin for two years. His MA dissertation examined the anatomical and physiological background of Aristotle’s theories on nutrition and metabolism. He is currently working on a project on Plato’s depiction of contemporary dietetic medicine in Republic Book 3. 

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Jesse Smith

Jesse Etan Smith lives in Brooklyn, New York. He loves spending time with friends. He is also a fifth year doctoral candidate at New York University, where he studies the physics of jets, waves, and vortices. His tefillah is slowly improving, but his cooking is slowly worsening.

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Yaelle Goldschlag

Yaelle is an incoming PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton where she will be based at the Center for Information Technology Policy. She is interested in building frameworks to enable responsible use of technology, especially related to people's right to autonomy over their experiences on the Internet. She previously studied Computer Science, Math and Persian at the University of Maryland and studied for one year at Midreshet Nishmat. She also spent four years at Meta working on responsible AI, LLMs, and data compression.

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