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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 2026-2027
Seminar Fellows!

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August Kahn

August Kahn is a second-year master’s student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. He is particularly interested in the intersections of Hasidic thought, psychology, and psychoanalysis. August previously studied Jewish texts at Yeshivat Hadar and worked at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is a Fulbright Program alumnus in Berlin, Germany, where he taught English. Based in Brooklyn, New York, August enjoys swimming laps, playing piano, and cooking. He is also a licensed NYC tour guide. 

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Rosie Baram

Rosie is from Philadelphia, PA, and is studying Liberal Arts at the Community College of Philadelphia. Her interests include political science and history. Raised in a home rich with Hasidic learning, she studied Hasidic texts throughout her school years and later at Beit Chana Seminary in Tzfat. Rosie looks forward to further exploring Hasidic texts with curiosity and depth

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Jesse Smith

Jesse Etan Smith lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he loves spending time with friends. He is also a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently studying the physics of ice. His tefillah is slowly improving and so is his cooking. 

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Noam Kantor

Noam lives in Philly, where he works advising government attorneys on public interest investigations related to technology companies. He currently does so as a Princeton AI Lab Policy Fellow. Noam has a doctorate in math from Oxford. He is passionate about chassidus and its import for contemporary progressive Jewish communities.

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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