Michael Grumer was the Applications Implementation and Support Specialist at the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he was responsible for configuring, maintaining, and managing the institute’s various data systems and software platforms.

Originally from The Bronx, NY, Michael made aliyah in 2007 and served as a lone soldier in an IDF combat unit. After his service, he spent six months volunteering in Nepal with Israeli NGO Tevel B’Tzedek.

Upon returning to Israel, he worked for the Bina secular yeshiva in Tel Aviv and received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he worked as an editor and translator for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and ran Jerusalem’s Moishe House.

Michael moved to New York in 2015 and served as a program director for Garin Tzabar assisting young North American Jews in moving to Israel. He joined the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America in 2018, and moved backed to Israel with his family in 2021.