The iChallenge Ideas Incubator is pleased to be hosting Rabbi Daniel Brenner for our spring professional development session. Rabbi Brenner is the Director of Initiatives for Boys and Men for the New York-based Moving Traditions.
This past summer Lena Benson and I went to Israel to meet with the people that we were hoping would be our partners in our Mishpacha l’mishpacha project, a project of the iChallenge Ideas Incubator. We had a wonderful meeting and I left feeling good that the program might really work.
Anne Stein has been the Director of Education at Congregation Etz Chaim for twenty years. In 1990 she started Shalom Sunday at the Mayer Kaplan JCC, a Sunday school program for newly arrrived children from the former Soviet Union. Before going into Jewish education she was a primary grade teacher in public schools and started a gifted program at a Catholic school in Dayton, OH. She serves on the board of NATE and is finishing her fourth term as president of CATE.
