August 10, 2012

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Israel Teachable Moments Summer Seminar, a program sponsored in part by the Jewish Agency for Israel, recently paired 10 teachers from northern New Jersey with 10 counterparts from Nahariya, JFNNJ’s sister city in Israel, for a curriculum-building seminar in Israel.

Local participants were Hagit Barnir, Temple Beth Rishon, Wykoff; Anat Brayer, Torah Academy of Bergen County, Teaneck; Karen Ickovitz and Judy Lichtman, Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, River Edge; Rochelle Phillips, Temple Avodat Shalom, River Edge; Penina Pick, RYNJ & Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee; Atalya Nevo, Yeshivat Noam, Paramus; Zahava Streit, Bereisheet, Tenafly; and Robin Fishbein Yucht and Tanya Zauderer, Ben Porat Yosef, Paramus.