- Susan Gladstone Pasternack, Executive Director
Susan Gladstone Pasternack was appointed as the Executive Director for the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU on June 1, 2017. Gladstone Pasternack brings more than 30 years of executive experience at the national and global levels. Gladstone Pasternack leads the Jewish Museum of Florida‒FIU’s team, including the museum’s curator, membership/programming director, fiscal administrator and grants manager, museum educator, exhibit designer, and a staff of administrators, coordinators, docents, and volunteers.
Gladstone Pasternack has served in several prominent leadership positions in the U.S. and abroad, most recently as director of development for the museum and for all of FIU’s Jewish Strategic Initiatives – including the university’s Global Jewish Studies Program, Holocaust Studies and Hillel FIU.
Gladstone Pasternack’s career has led her to excel at the highest levels of expertise in creating and managing multi-million dollar budgets, fundraising, and the cultivation of sponsorships, donors and major gifts.
She has a Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University, and a Bachelor of Social Work from Florida International University. As a lifelong member of the Jewish Community in Miami and the daughter of a rabbi, she has championed the importance of acceptance and tolerance.
Email: sgladsto@fiu.edu
- Dr. Tudor Parfitt, Academic Director
Tudor Parfitt is distinguished professor and President Navon Professor of Sephardi and Mizrahi studies at Florida International University. He is also director of the Global Jewish Studies Program. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and corresponding fellow of the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Belgium. He was professor—now emeritus—of Modern Jewish Studies at SOAS.
Parfitt specializes in the study of Jewish communities around the world, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Some of these communities have been recognized only since the late 20th century as having ancient Jewish origins.
His latest books are Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich ( Oxford University Press, 2020) , In The Shadow Of Moses: New Jewish Movements In Africa And The Diaspora, ed. D. Lis, W. Miles and T. Parfitt (Africa World Press, 2016); Black Zion, ed. Ed. Bruder and T. Parfitt (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2012) and Black Jews in Africa and the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Email: tparfitt@fiu.edu
- Todd Bothel, Registrar
A resident of South Florida since 2003, Todd Bothel has worked at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU since 2008. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and a Master's degree in Museum Studies. An avid historian, Todd has worked in the museum field for nearly twenty-five years, researching and installing exhibits covering a wide variety of subjects. He has written four books exploring the history of Fort Lauderdale.
Email: tbothel@fiu.edu
- Dr. Jaimie Luria, Program ManagerDr. Jaimie Luria is an anthropologist, educator, and cultural heritage professional with over fifteen years of experience working with diverse communities and institutions in areas of historic preservation, folklife studies, and museum education. Her academic research and teaching practice are centered on collaborative, creative, and critical approaches to placemaking, storytelling, and memory work. Dr. Luria received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Sarah Lawrence College (‘12), her MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center (‘15), her Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation from the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (‘17), and her doctorate in Sociocultural Anthropology and Jewish Studies from Cornell University (‘25). Her dissertation research, supervised by Dr. Jonathan Boyarin, was a multi-sited study of Jewish heritage and historic Jewish immersion pools (mikva’ot) in Spain and Israel. She has worked at various museums and galleries across the country, such as at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts (NY), Rubell Family Collection, MoMA PS1, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Jewish Museum/Holocaust History Center in Tucson, AZ. Jaimie has served on the Board of Directors of the international non-profit Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (US/CA) since 2019 and, in addition to her present posting as President Navon Postdoctoral Fellow in Mizrahi and Sephardic Studies at FIU and Program Manager at JMOF-FIU, she is directing the Montjuïc Jewish Cemetery Preservation Project at the Institute for Jewish Studies in Barcelona. Jaimie has worked with tribal communities across the U.S. as a cultural repatriation consultant and has a profound love for all things water-related (including mikvehs!). Published and forthcoming works include articles, book reviews, and chapter contributions to Museum Worlds (Berghahn Journals), Routledge Online Resources-The Renaissance World, Oxford University Press’ Jewish Women in Global Perspective, and an edited volume titled New Directions in Salvage Poetics (eds. Sheila Jelen and Judith Lin, University of Chicago).
Email: jluria@fiu.edu
- Boaz Levy, Museum Educator
Boaz Israel Levy is an educator and researcher cultivating bonds between the public and the art, languages, and histories of global, Atlantic, Floridian, and Jewish communities. He designs and manages JMOF-FIU's education, outreach, and partnership programs. Levy studies the history of the modern Mashriq, with a particular focus on the changing relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals in the early twentieth century. He is also a Ladinoavlante (advocate for Ladino/Djudezmo/judeoespañol).
Email: boaz.levy@fiu.edu
- Pierre Delerme, Maintenance Supervisor
Pierre Wesly Delerme started his career as a journalist in Haiti covering topics such as politics and social justice. He attended university at the Superior Institute of Political and Administrative Careers at Haiti State University and received his degree in business management 1994. Delerme then went on to Miami Dade College, attending business software and networking courses.
He emigrated to Miami in 1999 and worked at the Miami Herald for several years in the newspaper dispatching department. He joined the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU in 2013 and is currently the museum’s Building Maintenance Supervisor. He spends his much of his free time with his church congregation, where he serves as the chairman of the Deacon Board, and with his beloved family.
Email: pidelerm@fiu.edu
- Eva Shvedova, Admissions & Gift ShopEmail: eshvedov@fiu.edu
- Advisory BoardChairIra D. GillerVice ChairsPaul DruckerElliot StoneBoard MembersKenneth M. Bloom, Immediate Past ChairStephen FainReggie Feldman-GoldsteinAndrew GottliebMike KosnitzkyDavid LefkowitzAllen LevittJonathan MacyJeremy MilgroomGerald K. SchwartzDaniel WeissJudith WurtmanFounding Executive DirectorMarcia Jo Zerivitz, L.H.D.