Jonathan Lopatin

Jonathan is a former Partner at Goldman Sachs & Co. and is the founder of not-so-simple productions. He produced Eyes Wide Open (2008), a documentary about the experiences of American Jewish visitors to Israel, as well as of Fringes: New Adventures in Jewish Living, which premiered at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival in 2012. Jonathan is past-president of the Board of Directors of Mechon Hadar, and former President of the Nesiya Institute. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary,and was formerly Secretary of the Board of Directors of the New Israel Fund — where he continues to be active with the Fund’s work promoting Jewish pluralism in Israel.

Jonathan holds a Masters Degree in International Economics from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University, as well as an M.A. in Talmud, which he earned from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2009. He is married and has two children and three grandchildren.