Mordechai I. Twersky

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Mordechai I. Twersky is a veteran journalist, essayist, strategic media consultant and community and social activist. He has reported for – and his essays and op-eds have appeared in -- the New York Times, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, and the New York Jewish Week. Mordechai earned a B.A in political science from Yeshiva University, an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and an M.A. in political communications from Tel-Aviv University. He was named to the Forward’s Top 50 in 2013 after he exposed decades of child sexual abuse at Yeshiva University. A social activist inspired by his great-uncle, Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mordechai is an advocate for the rights of foreign caregivers, the elderly and physically challenged, terror victims, and survivors of institutional abuse. A native of New York City, Mordechai is the scion of the 250-year-old Twersky-Heschel Rabbinic-Hasidic dynasty.