The Jewish Education Experience Podcast

Tamar Shuchat is the content developer and graphic designer of the sought after curriculum DotbyDot. She has taught reading to children of all ages for over 10 years. Tamar wanted to create quality material that would excite every young reader and motivate them to read Hebrew. The ultimate goal is to create readers who are comfortable to daven and learn Chumash. The DotbyDot curriculum uses Hebrew words that children will encounter...

Rabbi Daniel Bauer is a Judaic Studies teacher at Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Merion Station, PA as well as a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from Lander College for Men as well as an M.S. in Jewish Education from Yeshiva University. He received semicha through YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Rabbi Bauer studied at Council for Relationships in Philadel...

In this special edition episode, I answer the questions that I usually ask other educators. I am a long-time educator who began as an assistant in my mother's classroom when I was 13 years old. I have taught in many different school settings. My focus now is on this podcast, and on teaching my own children.  Parenting Course, Parenting On Purpose: https://la-med-learning-center.teachable.com/p/parenting-on-purpose-developing-a...

JTLP Interview: Jason Cohen is currently one of Harrisburg BBYO's chapter advisors. He joined as the chapter advisor here in Harrisburg in March of 2020. Prior to joining Harrisburg BBYO Jason was one of the co-advisors for Wilkes-Barre BBYO since 2011. 

 Judith Hodara is the Director of the Jewish Teen Learning Project in Harrisburg, and an active member of local Jewish organizations. Her scholarly work focuses on the importan...

 Esther Goldenberg is a native Chicagoan, author, educator, and mother of two fabulous children. Once a reluctant reader, but always someone who enjoyed a good story, she developed a passion for writing. She is the author of The Out of the Box Bat Mitzvah, A Guide to Creating a Meaningful Milestone, and A Story Every Week: Torah Wisdom for Today's World. Her much anticipated Biblical fiction novel, The Scrolls of Deborah,  is ...

Rabbi Scot A. Berman has over 30 years in the fields of Jewish education and Jewish communal life. He has served in many educational capacities including elementary, secondary, university, and adult education. Rabbi Berman has served as principal of a number of Jewish schools and founded during his career two Jewish high schools. He also served as Executive Director of a multi-million-dollar family foundation. Currently, Rabbi Berm...

Rabbi Sandy Eissenberg Sasso served with her husband as Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, IN from 1977- 2013. She currently is the director of the Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Initiative at Butler University and the Christian Theological Seminary. In 1974, she became the first woman ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, PA. Rabbi Sasso earned her B.A. and M.A. from Temple Uni...

Yael Unterman is an international lecturer, author, and Bibliodrama facilitator living in Jerusalem. She holds MAs in Jewish History and Creative Writing. Her books are Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar (finalist, 2009 National Jewish Book Awards) and The Hidden of Things: Twelve Stories of Love & Longing (finalist, 2015 USA Best Book Awards). She is an international lecturer and has facilitated over 700 workshops in ...

Dr. Abraham Unger has been the Tikvah Fund’s Director of Regional Education since 2021. In that capacity, he has managed the launch and growth of the Millstone Scholars National Honors Program in Jewish Thought for middle school students across the country. This weekly afterschool program in Jewish ideas covers the Biblical through contemporary periods and meets in-person in discussion-driven seminar groups in all regions of the U....

Zahava Bauer grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended RYNJ and Maayanot there. She then ventured to Israel and attended Midreshet Harova, and then made her way to Stern College in NY where she double majored in English Literature and Jewish Education. She then completed a dual masters at Graduate Program for Advanced Talmud Study and Azrieli, finishing also with teaching certification in English for grades 7-12. Throughout this ...

Aviva Lauer is the Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. She majored in Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, and earned a Master’s degree in Midrash at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Aviva is a Jewish educator with 25 years of experience in curriculum development, classroom teaching, school administration and educational consulting. Upon making Aliyah in 1996, Aviva developed for...

Rabbi Rick Schindelheim has taught Jewish History, Tanakh and Talmud at the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, OH since 2013. He currently serves as the chair of the Talmud Department and is the Upper School Judaic Studies Coordinator. His informal educational experience includes over a decade of work at Camp Stone in a variety of capacities. After studying in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel for three years, Rick earned his B.A....

Rabbi Mark Trencher is the president of Nishma Research, which has been studying the Orthodox Jewish Community since 2015. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, but considers himself a “Brooklyn Boy,” having grown up in the very first chasidish shtiebel in Flatbush. He received semicha from RJJ (the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School), taught in three Orthodox day schools and three universities. He also has served as president of a shul, ...

Michelle Farbman is the Dean of Students at Shulamith school for girls in Long Island, NY. She began teaching in 2008 at YCQ in NY. She was a morah there for 6 years and continued on to the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY where she was a morah and became director of Middle school girls. After being there for 7 years, Michelle came to Shulamith as a new administrator.  She received her Bachelors in education from Stern college, a m...

Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin is the academic director and dean of the Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education. His prior work on Jewish Classical Education as a research fellow with Tikvah was featured in the Wall Street Journal. He received his PhD in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and Yeshiva University, and taught at both CUNY and Princeton. He is also a chaplain in the...

Naomi Hollander grew up in Brookline, MA. She attended Maimonides school through 12th grade. She then attended michlalah in Yerushalayim and then got her BA from Stern College in NY. She worked at Manhattan Day School and Yeshiva of Central Queens and now has been at Shulamith School for Girls for the past 16 years teaching second grade Judaic studies. 

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Esty Freund is an educator with over a decade of experience in Kiruv and she is closing in on her eighth year in Jewish education. She has dedicated herself to teaching the next generation of Jewish women and mothers. Her career has taken her from serving as an assistant and teacher at HALB, (The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY) to teaching for CAHAL, (Communities Acting to Heighten Awareness and Learning), geared towards children...

Rabbi Chaim Jachter is a prominent rabbi who serves as the rabbi at Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, NJ and is a popular Torah teacher at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, NJ.  He also serves as a Dayan on the Beth Din of Elizabeth, NJ and has acquired an international reputation of excellence in the area of Get administration. He has authored fifteen books on issues ranging from contemporary Hala...

Rabba Daniella Pressner is Head of School at the Akiva School in Nashville, TN. Born in Jerusalem, and raised in Chicago, Daniella received her BA from Barnard College in Religion and Dance and her MA from Vanderbilt University in Jewish Studies. She has studied at Drisha, Pardes, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was awarded a prestigious DSLTI fellowship for future leaders of Jewish Day schools.  Daniella currently ser...