Our Staff
Sydney Ungar Milgrom
Sydney Milgrom is a native Clevelander and is a self-proclaimed Mitchell’s Ice Cream superfan. She received her BA from the University of Michigan, and is a graduate of Hebrew College’s Master of Jewish Education program. As the Director of The Bridge, Sydney coordinates everything from happy hours, to Shabbat Clusters, and everything in between. Although she doesn’t actually like coffee, she enjoys taking new Clevelanders out to local coffee shops and getting to know our amazing Downtown and Near-West Side community. When she’s not at work, Sydney enjoys exercising, reading, taking care of her houseplants, and spending time with family and her dog, Babka. Email Sydney here.
Rabbi Joshua Jacobs
Josh Jacobs is the assistant rabbi at B'nai Jeshurun, and incredibly excited to join the Bridge family. He earned his BA in Jewish Studies at Emory, but mostly spent his college experience doing improv. Y'know, like a responsible person. He has always had a passion for story-telling, and after writing for television and realizing that all of his episodes were thinly-veiled d'var Torahs, he enrolled in rabbinical school and hasn't looked back. He has since traveled to Siberia to officiate a joint bar/bat-mitzvah for a large group of intergenerational Siberian Jews, worked as a student hospital chaplain in 2020, and joined leadership cohorts including Wexner and Hartman. Josh is dedicated to social justice work and living a life in conversation with God. He met his wife, Rabbi Alex, at Ziegler Rabbinical School, and followed her home to Cleveland, which he now considers to be home, too. They have a dog, Tula, who will jump on you but means well. Email Josh here.