Rebecca Blady is the Executive Director of Hillel Germany and the Co-founder of its central organization, Base Berlin, a home-based, pluralistic Jewish community for young Jews in Berlin, Germany. She received rabbinic ordination from Maharat in 2019. While at Maharat, she completed rabbinic internships at the Prospect Heights Shul and ImmerseNYC. For the past three years, she has worked with Hillel’s Office of Innovation, first as a Fellow and then as Program Coordinator for the Fellowship for Rabbinic Entrepreneurs. Rebecca holds a B.A. cum laude from Brandeis University and is a certified yoga instructor. Raised in North Woodmere, NY, Rebecca is a proud granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and advocates for every individual Jewish story. She lives in Berlin, Germany with her husband Jeremy and daughter Hinda.
Jeremy Borovitz is the Director of Jewish Learning for Hillel Germany and the Co-founder of Base Berlin. Jeremy was raised in Paramus, NJ, the son of a Reform rabbi and a lawyer for the Jewish Theological Seminary. He got a BA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2009, and, with no better ideas for his future, joined the Peace Corps. Jeremy served in the village of Boyarka, Ukraine as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2010-2012, and then moved to Kiev, Ukraine, to work with the Jewish Community as a Jewish Service Corps fellow for the JDC. From Kiev, Jeremy moved to Jerusalem and spent two years studying study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where he received a certificate in Experiential Education. He worked for Moishe House as the European Director of Jewish Education, organizing Jewish Learning retreats in cities across Europe, from Paris to Moldova. In recent years, Jeremy was a co-founder and Director of Learning for Brooklyn Beit Midrash, a pluralistic collective of Jewish learners in Central Brooklyn. Jeremy received semikha (Rabbinic Ordination) with Rabbi Daniel Landes in his Yashrut program in February 2020.