Originally from NYC, Neesa Berezin-Bahr now lives in Israel with her husband, Asaf, where she runs spiritual and communal programming for kehilot in South Tel Aviv/Jaffa. Neesa has organized women’s megila readings in NYC and Tel Aviv since 2013. She interned with Chuppot and hopes to continue working on changing the face of kedushin and gerut in Israel. She tutors conversion students and bnei/bnot mitzvah. Prior to learning at Maharat, Neesa worked at Drisha for nearly a decade, where she was the Director of Student Engagement. There, she created and implemented Jewish educational programming for hundreds of college students, young professionals and rabbinical students. Neesa was a 2020-2021 Masa Teaching Fellow in Jerusalem. She worked for the OU's Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus. She also worked for Dorshei Torah v’Tzion, the slate spearheaded by Rabbi Avi Weiss in the WZC. She previously studied in the Drisha Kollel in NYC and at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. Neesa enjoys thinking about ways Torah can speak to everyday matters and issues that she is passionate about.