Advisory Council

Dr. Isa Aron
Professor of Jewish Education, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA; founding director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education's Experiment in Congregational Education (ECE).

Rabbi Kenneth Brander
Dean, Center for the Jewish Future, Yeshiva University, New York, NY

Dr. Sandy Dashefsky
Academic Director, Hartford Institute of Jewish Studies; Education Director, La'atid: Synagogues for the Future, Hartford, CT

Shellie Dickstein
Director of Family Education and Outreach, Coordinator of Educational Services, Suffolk Association for Jewish Educational Services (SAJES), Commack, NY

Marion Gribetz
Director, Professional Development
Instructor in Jewish Education
Academic Programs
Hebrew College, Boston MA

Dr. Leora Isaacs
Vice-President for Program and Organizational Learning; Director, Mandell L. Berman Jewish Heritage Center for Research and Evaluation in Jewish Education, JESNA

Vicky Kelman
Director, Family Education Project, Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma and the Peninsula, San Francisco, CA; Covenant Award recipient 2003

Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Schein
Director of the Center for Jewish Education and Professor of Jewish Education at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies, Cleveland, OH

Rabbi Sid Schwarz
Founder and President, PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, Washington D.C., Covenant Award recipient 2002

Dr. Harvey Shapiro
Dean, Shoolman Graduate School of Jewish Education; founder, Center for Jewish Day School Education, Boston Hebrew College, Boston, MA

Dr. Susan Shevitz
Associate Professor of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service, Brandeis University

Rabbi Phil Warmflash
Executive Director, Jewish Outreach Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, Melrose Park, PA