Staff

Michael Jeser – Executive Director
Shira Moldoff – Assistant Director
Rabbi Ethan Bair – Director of Student Life
Alison Levine – Advancement/Development Officer
Ido Adulamy – Israel Fellow

Michael Jeser
Executive Director
mjeser@uschillel.org
(213) 973-1203

Michael Jeser is the Allen & Ruth Ziegler Executive Director of the USC Hillel Foundation. Prior to joining Hillel, Michael served as Director of the Real Estate & Construction (REC) Division, the largest and most successful fundraising divisions of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Under Michael’s leadership, the REC division raised more than $8 Million Dollars despite a severe economic downturn. Michael graduated with two Masters Degrees from HUC’s School of Jewish Communal Service and the USC School of Social Work in 2004.

Shira Moldoff
Assistant Director
shira@uschillel.org
(213) 973-1205

Shira Moldoff is the Assistant Director of USC Hillel where she manages the building and financial operations, supervises the Israel Fellow, and staffs the ASB (Alternative Spring Break) trip. Prior to this, she served as Senior Campaign Associate at the Jewish Federation of Long Beach and a JCSC (Jewish Communal Service Corps) Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Shira is also a proud OTZMA alumna and has had the privilege of staffing 13 Taglit-birthright Israel trips and still counting. Originally from Cherry Hill, NJ, Shira received her bachelor’s degree Towson University and her MBA in Non-Profit Management from American Jewish University in 2007.

Rabbi Ethan Bair
Rabbinic Director and Director of Jewish Student Life
rabbiethan@uschillel.org or ebair@usc.edu
(213) 973-1201

Rabbi Ethan Bair is the Rabbinic Director and Director of Jewish Student Life at the University of Southern California Hillel. Rabbi Bair earned his B.A. from Oberlin College in 2003. In ‘03-’04, he was a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, Germany where he studied contemporary German-Jewish identity and taught in an inner-city high school. He was ordained as a rabbi in 2011 through Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. Rabbi Bair is a member of the first cohort of the Schusterman Rabbinical Fellowship, a leadership program that brings together four Conservative and Reform rabbinical students to learn social entrepreneurship and management skills, and to cultivate relationships across their movements. As a rabbinic student, he also served as a teaching assistant for Jewish History at USC through the Louchheim School of Judaic Studies. As the Hillel rabbi at USC, he seeks to create sacred spaces for sharing and meaning-making among students outside the classroom. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, running and writing, and spending Shabbat with LA’s Shtibl minyan. His wife, Nadya, is also at USC, pursuing a PhD in Art History.