Holiday Hacks: Making New Rosh Hashanah Memories

Holiday Hacks: Making New Rosh Hashanah Memories

11am PDT

Join us for a special series celebrating the innovators that are reimagining your High Holidays experience. Founder and creator of Days United, Maya Lotan and Director of Jewish Content, Tova Birnbaum, will teach parents and grandparents alike how to make sacred moments and memories to last a lifetime.

We encourage everyone to watch the presentation live. It will not be available to view as we are currently working behind the scenes to improve the user experience.

Maya Lotan is founder and CEO of Days United. With her background in engineering and design, she brought multiple products from inception to market success. Prior to Days she was employee #4 at Loop Commerce (acquired by Synchrony 2018). This is her second startup. She has 3 small boys who are obsessed with crafts, and the most supporting husband - also an entrepreneur.

Tova Birnbaum is our guiding light and supervises our Jewish content. She is the Director of Jewish Content at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, and serves as a Secular Jewish Life-cycle Ceremonies officiant. She was born in B'nai B'rak in an Ultra-Orthodox home and was one of the founders of the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv.

Rabbi Sherre Hirsch is the Chief Innovation Officer for American Jewish University. Rabbi Hirsch made headlines as the first female rabbi at Sinai Temple, the largest Conservative congregation on the west coast. She served as Senior Rabbinic Scholar at Hillel International, where she created and developed Hillelwell, an initiative for Hillels worldwide to become the recognized address for preventative mental health. A thought leader on spirituality and religion, Rabbi Hirsch has appeared on the Today Show, ABC News, Extra, and PBS, among other outlets, and has been a contributor to Time.com, Oprah Magazine, the Jewish Journal, the Hollywood Journal, and more. She is the author of “Thresholds, How to Live Fearlessly and Regret Free” (featured in “Hot Type” in Vanity Fair), and “We Plan, God Laughs, What to do When Life Hits You Over the Head” (recognized on Amazon’s Top 100 List). Rabbi Hirsch was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.