Daniel Torres is originally from Moroleón, Guanajuato. He studied Clinical Psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Currently, he is part of the psychology team of the Secretaría de Salud del Estado de Guanajuato, in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende, where he resides and also has private clinical practice. He is teaching at several universities.

Daniel’s interest in community processes. This has led him to collaborate in various civil society organizations in social development interventions with vulnerable groups using transformative education strategies.

Daniel has been an active JC3/CHESMA member since 2013, when he began to study Torah, Talmud, and Biblical Hebrew, among other subjects, under Dan Lessner. Hanukkah of 2016 he earned his official conversion after having studied with Rabbi Juan Mejía. He is assistant Ba'al Koreh (reading publicly from the Torah scrolls at services) and helps lead the Shabbat services of KSSMA.

Elliot Fine grew up in Greenwich Village, New York. After getting his B.A. at Antioch College, he worked at Telerate Systems, and Dow Jones, as the International Representative, Manager of Quality Assurance, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Manager of Subscriber Administration. Thereafter, Elliot switched careers to be a kindergarten teacher in the New York City public school system.

Elliot served as a board member at the Free Synagogue of Flushing, New York.

Elliot is an avid folk dancer. He has led folk-dance classes in New York City and taught Israeli folk dancing at the Jewish Community Center, San Miguel de Allende. Elliot also was a soloist with the George Tomov Yugoslav Folk Dance Ensemble, which performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York as well as toured in Serbia and Macedonia with the troupe.

Born in NYC and raised in Stamford, CT. Kayla attended a progressive (for its time) Jewish day school where she learned Hebrew, Torah, and even Mishnah, which prior to her protests had been taught only to boys. This experience motivates her to be on the board of the egalitarian, inclusive, and diverse community of JC3/CHESMA.

Kayla served as a high school ESL teacher, principal, principals’ coach, director of leadership for the NYCDOE and, briefly, director of a Syrian Jewish PreK-HS IB school in Mexico City.

Kayla coordinates ESL, Spanish, dance, yoga and adult education classes at the Center. She teaches Hebrew/Jewish Life classes to children and adults. Kayla also co-leads a modern liberal service the first Friday of every month at JC3/CHESMA.