Steven Greenberg
Steven Greenberg, Executive Director, has been with the Vilna Shul since May of 2005. Steven has over forty years of experience working with community organizations in the never ending pursuit of “Tikkun Olum” repairing the world. He holds a Master of Regional Planning Degree from Cornell University and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of MA. His experience ranges from work on an Amicus Curiae Brief before the US Supreme Court seeking regional desegregation of urban schools, to a wide variety of leadership roles in community organizations, to working for a multi-billion dollar telecommunications company.
Rachel Cylus
Rachel worked as the Program Coordinator at the Vilna Shul from June of 2008 through May of 2010. She moved to Boston to work at the Vilna after graduating from the Johns Hopkins University with a BA in History. Rachel also studied Yiddish at Johns Hopkins, as an intern at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, in 2006, and at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute at the Vilnius University in Lithuania, in 2007. She managed volunteering opportunities and the tour program at the Vilna, worked closely with the Havurah on the Hill, and helped bring new exciting events and programs to the Vilna. She has been accepted in the German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders program, an opportunity made possible by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and will be working in Germany studying historic Jewish spaces for the next year.
Mark Nystedt
Mark, a retired volunteer now living in Haverhill, MA, has been the Vilna's primary historical researcher since 2005. Mark served in the U.S. Navy submarine service, graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and worked as a technical illustrator for several employers. History and archives have long been his passion. Mark served as Parish Historian for Saint Peter's Church in Salem and has taken several graduate level history courses in his area of special interest - New England Puritanism, Salem, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As an Evangelical who has attended synagogue for nearly ten years, Mark's special place at the Vilna is introducing the many Christian visitors to Judaism.
