Vancouver Hillel’s Staff Team

Vancouver Hillel has a team of dynamic and passionate staff who are driven to provide Jewish student programming and presence on campus across British Columbia.

Eyal Lichtmann, executive director

During his undergraduate career at UBC, Eyal served as student president at Hillel for 3 years, and upon graduation worked as the Hillel Program Director for two years prior to obtaining his MBA. After working in the corporate sector for several years, Eyal returned to Vancouver Hillel as the Executive Director and now provides guidance and oversight to students during their tenure at post secondary institutions.

Orit Goldfarb, executive office manager

Originally from Israel, Orit joined Vancouver Hillel in the fall of 2006 as the Executive Office Manager. She is integral in all of the operations that occur at Vancouver Hillel.

Maggie Yonash, special events coordinator

Maggie has been working for and volunteering with Vancouver Hillel for the past 14 years. She is originally from Israel and among other things is tirelessly working on Vancouver Hillel’s Capital Campaign and annual Gala.

Pat Johnson, sfu hillel director and managing director, communications and programming

Currently based out of the SFU Hillel House, Pat joined Vancouver Hillel as the Development and Communications Director in 2006. He has an extensive background in journalism, the nonprofit sector and Jewish communal service.

Paul Curran, ubc program director

Paul was a student leader with Hillel before graduating from UBC in 2009. With his knowledge of campus life, his passion for social justice and a diverse range of interests and skills, Paul’s addition to the Hillel programming team is an example of seamless the transition Hillel strives to facilitate, launching student leaders into success contributing to the broader world.

Eitan Pinsky, development assistant

Eitan Pinsky, a Vancouver native and a graduate of the Rotman Commerce program at the University of Toronto, served on Vancouver Hillel's Board of Directors before joining Vancouver Hillel's staff team. As part of his work with Vancouver Hillel, Eitan co-established Vancouver Hillel's Young Jewish Urbanites: Professional Division (HYJU: PD). This year he will be busy taking on a new role leading Hillel's exciting new social enterprise CampusAuction.ca

Ayelet G. Weil, uvic director

Born in Mexico, Ayelet moved to Victoria after serving in the Israeli Defense Force. At UVic Ayelet completed a degree in International Relations. She is now joining Hillel for her second year as the UVic Director. In this position, she will be affecting and motivating programming for the Victoria student community as well as managing the University of Victoria Hillel House.

Ben Rabinovitch, webmaster

A graduate of Computing Sciences at SFU, Ben Rabinovitch put his degree to good use when constructing this Vancouver Hillel website. In addition to being a webmaster, Ben has a plethora of other work and volunteer experience including working as the SFU Director and Taglit-Birthright: CIE British Columbia Director for Vancouver Hillel.