Zach was ordained as a rabbi at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2020 and received his BA at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN in 2013. Zach has given sermons and lectures from Stockholm to Vladivostok, performed as a cantorial soloist for multiple High Holiday services across the country, and taught Hebrew to rabbinical students and Yiddish at Yiddishland California.

He is the Executive Director of Der Nister and Deputy Yiddish Editor of the Forward (Forverts), where he has worked since 2021. He previously was the general manager of Aradolu America, an e-commerce company importing Turkish products.

Zach is a native of Long Beach, CA, and has explored Downtown LA for as long as he can remember. His passions are (in no particular order) the renewal of Yiddishkeit, languages, graphic design, and screwing in lightbulbs at Der Nister.