Robyn Faintich has many years of Jewish communal professional experience, including youth movements and community teen initiatives, early childhood education, congregational family education, and adult education. Most recently she served as the national Executive...
See the related article, Inculcating an Ethics-based Community by Robyn Faintich. The following are excerpts taken from Ethical Wills each BJE senior was required to write in order to participate in the program siyyum. I never imagined how studying my religion and its...
Daniel Rothner is Areyvut’s Founder and Director. He taught Judaic studies in day schools, and holds an MA in Modern Jewish History from Bernard Revel Graduate School and an M. Ed. from Loyola University. Shira Hammerman is Areyvut’s Educational Coordinator. She is a...
Miki Young is a senior madrich with Mussar Leadership (http://www.mussarleadership.org/index.html) where she facilitates Mussar groups and is working on a new publication on Family Mussar. As Jews we are charged with the central tenet, “You shall love your neighbor as...
Rabbi David Jaffe is the director of the Chanoch L’Na’ar initiative at Gann Academy. He is also the dean of the Kirva Institute for Torah and Spiritual Practice and a board member of The Mussar Institute. Mussar is the area of Jewish wisdom dedicated spiritual and...
Adina Gerver (adina@adinagerver.com) is a freelance writer and editor specializing in editing and indexing academic books, and grant-writing/development work for educational organizations. Adina enjoys writing creative non-fiction about Jewish texts, mental health and...
Nachum Amsel has extensive experience in formal and informal Jewish education in the US, Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has served as a day school teacher and principal, and taught in university. Rabbi Dr. Amsel is currently the Director of Educational...
Rabbi Barry Kislowicz, Ed.D., heads the lower and middle schools of Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, OH. Perhaps our greatest hope is that our children grow up to be good, moral individuals. Many definitions of morality focus on how we treat others and function in...
Rabbi Dr. Moshe J. Yeres serves as Vice Principal of Jewish Studies at the The Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, (TanenbaumCHAT) Kimel Family Education Centre, a large community high school in the Greater Toronto area. There exists a need to...
Rabbi Ari Leubitz is the Associate Rabbi of Bnai-David Judea and serves on the faculty of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. Yossi Kastan is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit educational organization and serves on the faculty of Shalhevet High School in...
