About

INTERiNCLUSION is a non-profit multi-layered educational initiative celebrating the convergence between contemporary arts and sciences and timeless Jewish wisdom.

INTERiNCLUSION’s goal is to educate, inspire and engage an ever growing, highly energized, interactive online community.

Executive Team

Rabbi Asher Crispe, Executive Director of INTERiNCLUSION

Asher is a highly knowledgeable technology expert and futurist as well as a media aficionado with a thorough and intimate knowledge of emerging developments in science and the digital universe.

With over 20 years of experience as an educator, he regularly travels the world as a speaker/lecturer teaching in Jewish centers and academic institutions. He specializes in illuminating the arts and sciences through the lens of the Torah. His lectures have focused on: music, film, art, architecture, gender theory, psychology, education, economics, regenerative medicine and physics.

He has worked with Rabbi Ginsburgh on numerous books while serving as the Educational Director of the Gal Einai Institute in Israel. He has also served as a consultant for financial, medical and technological projects all relating to future trends. Asher co-founded INTERiNCLUSION with Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh in the spring of 2010.

Sara Esther Crispe, Co-Director of INTERiNCLUSION

Sara Esther is a world-renowned motivational speaker focusing on interpersonal relationships. She was the Director of Communications for the Chabad on the Campus International Foundation and prior to that she was the creator and editor of TheJewishWoman.org, a project of Chabad.org, where her weekly blog, Musing for Meaning, was followed by thousands.  She has also served as a consultant for two documentaries with the Oprah Winfrey Network dealing with the Jewish perspective on dating and marriage and is a contributor to the Huffington Post. She lives with her husband, Rabbi Asher Crispe and four children in Danby, Vermont.

Rabbi Psachyah Lichtenstein, Creative Director of INTERiNCLUSION

Psachyah is an artist, designer, teacher, and thinker. His process involves curiosity, play, and the fine art of the unexpected. He has worked with Coca-Cola, UPS, HP, Agilent Technologies, AT&T, and Accenture. Psachyah is interested in the intersection between technology, ecology, and the human spirit. Born in New York City, Psachyah studied design at Pratt and Jewish studies at Rabbinical College of America. He lives in Pittsburgh with his family, where he is an avid gardner.

Advisory Board:

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Founder, Gal Einai

Rabbi Ginsburgh is one of the foremost expositors of Jewish Mysticism and Chassidut in our time. The author of over 90 books in both English and Hebrew, he is a prolific writer and teacher, currently producing enough material for a full-length book each month.

Rabbi Ginsburgh’s familiarity with mathematics, science, philosophy, psychology and music has enabled him to relate the ancient wisdom of the Torah to many currents trends in academic thought and artistic activity. His work is not only integrative in its nature, it is also seminal, providing both the religious and academic communities with tools and ideas that are timely, relevant and yet timeless. Every class or lecture that he delivers is a tour-de- force of powerful insight, intellect, and endless creativity.

Marc Erlbaum

Additionally, Erlbaum is the founder of The Jewish Relief Agency, the largest food assistance provider to the Jewish community in the Greater Philadelphia region. JRA has created a community of volunteerism joining together 7,000 people from throughout the community.

Andre Frankel

Andre Frankel is a successful financier who resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil as he expands his new real estate investment company and assists in structuring complex investments with a former Brazilian Central Bank monetary policy director. Prior to beginning his own company, he worked as an investment advisor with UBS International and as a private banker with Safra National Bank of New York.

Tamir Goodman

Goodman also runs the Tamir Goodman Athletic Leadership Basketball Camp (TGALBC) whose purpose is to bring together talented Jewish and African American players from around the country to strengthen the relationship between the two communities as well as develop their abilities as players. In addition, he works for Haifa Hoops For Kids, a non-profit organization that aids special needs and Israeli children affected by rockets that have been launched at the city of Sderot.

 Craig Snider

Craig Snider, Executive Director of the Ed Snider Foundation, is a senior management professional with more than 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, and business development.  With experience across a diverse range of businesses, he has achieved demonstrable success in the real estate, retail, and entertainment industries.

He recently created the Philadelphia Freedom Center, an east coast operation for David Horowitz’s Freedom Center based in LA, for which he serves as Director. Among the objectives of the new center is to eliminate political indoctrination from higher education in Pennsylvania by promoting the Student’s Bill of Rights as an indispensable part of Academic Freedom. Craig is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Policy Practice and Research.