Talia Bodner
Student and Writer, Columbia University
and The Jewish Theological Seminary

Talia Bodner is a student from the Bay Area studying in the Joint Program with Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is majoring in Jewish Gender and Women’s Studies at JTS and Political Science at Columbia. Talia is the PR Chair for Columbia’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel and she is a Hillel Engagement Fellow and involved in multiple Hillel fellowships. Talia spent a gap year in Israel on Young Judaea Year Course, where she interned in the Knesset and volunteered teaching English to Israeli-Arab students in Tel Aviv. Talia is also a writer, and has performed spoken word poems at the November 2023 March for Israel at the National Mall in DC and at the World Zionist Organization’s 2023 Conference on Informal Education and Leadership in Jerusalem. She is also a blogger for the Times of Israel.