The Only Way Is Up

Lisa Barkan, originally from New Jersey, has been living in Jerusalem
since her Aliyah 30 years ago. A serial social entrepreneur since her
first trip to Israel in 1983, Lisa has over 30 years of experience in high
tech and non-profit marketing and project development/management.
After working in Israel/Zionist activism, Lisa served in the Foreign
Investors Department, JDA recruiting technology companies to
Jerusalem’s technology parks. She then worked marketing high tech
companies until creating her own company providing marketing
services to both the profit and non-profit sectors.
She created Jerusalem Village in July 2010 after recognizing that young
Jewish adults arriving to the city needed opportunities to meet and
engage with their Israeli peers. Today Jerusalem Village has completed
a five-year strategic plan positioning the city to provide the global
young adult community with introductions, conversational dinners and
a warm welcome to the city.
Lisa is a passionate advocate for Jerusalem as a living and vibrant center
for the Jewish people and looks to the future of the city with optimism,
passion and appreciation of the rich heritage, diversity and challenges
the city presents. She is married and has five children between the ages
20 to 25, loves to cook and host, and is married to a Star Trek fan
making her a new trekkie.

For all her social media:
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-barkan-matitya/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JerusalemVillage/

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Artwork: Leon Weinreb

Amber Joy Layne is an Olah from Miami, Florida who has made a career in Tel Aviv as a professional dancer and choreographer. She’s performed with many artists all over the country, choreographed major productions for brands such as El Al and Samsung as well as created a dance group that came in second on Israel’s Got Talent. You can see her in the latest Show of Teatron Tel Aviv, Flashdance the Musical.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2058068300882926/?ref=share
Instagram: https://instagram.com/amberjoylayne?igshid=f804ftdmnqeh

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Artwork: Leon Weinreb

Ariella Zeitlin is a mind-blowing international multi-genre performer, who shot to fame from Israel's version of The Voice and has been flown across the globe to perform. Originally classically trained, a concert violinist since the age of 10 she had her first international tour at the age 13, and moved to Israel on her own at the age of 17. After completing her MA in music, she has taken her musical journey well beyond her education. Today she is a composer, creator, violinist; entertainer, singer, and on top of it all, a full-time mom!!!

Her single "Incandescence" was raved about as a "game changer in the world of Jewish Music" and now she has begun the production of her first full length album, which is a genre bending combination of styles and music .

For all her social media links:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/violinlikethat

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/violinlikethat

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOGH-U5nJ0XLknU6bXC70ow

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Artwork: Leon Weinreb

Joanna made aliyah 12 years ago with her husband and two kids from LA. When her kids went to school she started blogging about fun things she did with them in the afternoons. The blog grew into a tourism website with daily calendar, activity ideas, camps, chugim and party venues.

Facebook - www.facebook.com/funinjerusalem

Twitter - www.twitter.com/funinjerusalem

Instagram @funinjerusalem  

Pinterest - Fun In Jerusalem

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Jessica was born and raised in Northern California and first came to Israel on Taglit in December of 2006 at the age of 26. She returned to Israel to take part in a 6 month internship as a press photographer and ended staying. She met her husband in the first 6 months she was here and  were married in 2012. She started my photography business in 2014 when she decided to stay home to care for her daughter Maia. Fast forward a few years to Nov of 2016 to the birth of my son Luca. Jessica currently lives in Hod HaSharon with my husband and children. 

Website: Lifestyle Portraiture Photography | JF Photography | Israel  | 
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.frykman.photography/ | 
Instagram: @jfphotographytlv

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Resa is the Co-Founder and Client Relations Director of Cacao Media, a HubSpot Certified Platinum Partner Agency with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and Nairobi. With the CRM and Marketing Automation processes she and her team set up, startup companies, as well as traditional companies, spend more time closing deals instead of being bogged down by administrative tasks. 

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, she currently lives in Israel with her husband and kids. When she's not planning and executing her clients' marketing strategies or training teams she can often be found at various co-working spaces giving marketing and sales advice and assistance to anyone who requests. 

She came to Israel in April 1, 2007 for a 2 week vacation which turned into a 12 yr hiatus 

RELEVANT LINKS:

Website: www.cacaomedia.co

Company Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/cacaomediamarketing/

Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cacaomedia-hubspotagency/?viewAsMember=true

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Artwork: Leon Weinreb

Lee’at Gentely, also known as the Cake Lady or Cake Queen is the one man show behind Caked & Baked, a bespoke cake design business based in Tel Aviv.  Originally from London, Lee’at made Aliyah 10 years ago together with her now husband, with just a couple of suitcases between them.  With zero experience Lee’at first started making cakes for her own kids birthday’s, then helping out with friend’s cakes and now runs a successful cake business with a 6 week waiting list.
www.facebook.com/cakedandbakedisrael
www.instagram.com/caked_and_baked

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Sherri Mandell won a National Jewish Book Award in 2004 for her spiritual memoir, The Blessing of a Broken Heart (Toby Press, 2003). Translated into three languages, the book was adapted into a stage play. Her book, The Road to Resilience: From Chaos to Celebration (Toby Press, 2015) details the spiritual stages of resilience. She is also the author of Writers of the Holocaust (Facts on File, 1997) and has written for numerous magazines and journals including USA Today, The Times of Israel, Hadassah Magazine, and the Jerusalem Post. She received Moment Magazine's prize for best short fiction in 2009 and a Simon Rockower prize for the personal essay in 2011. She is also the author of  two forthcoming children’s picture books. She received the ADL Partners in Peace Award in 2004 as well as Jewish Women’s International Women to Watch Award.

For the past eighteen years, she and her husband have directed the Koby Mandell Foundation in Israel whose flagship program is Camp Koby, a therapeutic sleep away camp for bereaved children. Sherri is also a certified pastoral counsellor. She runs healing groups for bereaved mothers and lectures about grief and resilience around the world.
 Website:  www.kobymandell.org

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Ilana is the owner of Kshamming and Ilana Stemmer PR.  After 15 years of working in marketing & PR in the UK and Israel, she decided it was time to go solo and launched herself as a PR consultant while studying to be an Ayurvedic Practitioner - a long and complicated dream that was eventually being materialised. She now combines the two professions and enjoys (almost!) every minute of it.

Website: https://www.kshamming.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/kshamming/ 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kshamming 

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Tal Nimrodi is an athletic health nut who decided to turn her passion for fitness, food, and sustainability into her full-time job. While on a long bike ride struggling to find something to fuel her body that was both nutritious AND delicious, she realized that Israel lacked options that were made of simple natural ingredients and nothing more. That’s when she came up with the idea of Rusty's Nut Butters and Treats- A mindful eating brand focusing on health, fitness, and sustainability. Her vision was to create clean and clear labels with less than 4 ingredients grinded together to create a plant-based, vegan, and processed-sugar free products using locally grown nuts and other organic flavors from around the world. She wants to show people that eating healthy can be fun, simple and creative even if for those who live a busy and active lives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rustysnuts/

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