Benjamin Gottesman

A Long Island, NY native, Benjamin Gottesman is the associate director of high-school fellowships at Tikvah. This past June, he graduated Yeshiva University with degrees in both Political Science and Jewish Studies. While at YU, Benjamin studied under Rabbi Meir Soloveichik as an undergraduate scholar at Yeshiva’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and was a participant in the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Honors Program. Benjamin also played a major role in student life, serving as the editor-in-chief of the YU Observer, the school’s student newspaper. In the past, Benjamin has interned at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem and in the office of New York State Senator Kevin Parker, but is most proud of his work as a counselor and division head in Bnei Akiva’s Camp Moshava and Mach Hach B’aretz. His alma maters include Jerusalem’s Yeshivat Hakotel and Long Island’s HAFTR High School, where he served as the founding captain of the school’s NSDA-affiliated speech and debate team. A student of chassidus, Benjamin’s intellectual heroes include Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Sheur Zalman of Liadi, and Nachman of Breslov.