Seth Weiss My day job is teaching high school students Math.
Starting my 34th year of doing that at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School.
I think this will be the 24rd edition of the Nitzanim class here at B'nai Brith !
Starting my 34th year of doing that at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School.
I think this will be the 24rd edition of the Nitzanim class here at B'nai Brith !
Michelle Izadi is excited to be returning for another school year teaching kindergarten/1st grade.
She has taught religious school on/off for the past 13 years in Fl, NC, and MA. During the week she is an administrative assistant and a teacher at a Jewish preschool and is also a mom of 2 boys, a 4.5 year old and a 20 month old. She also have a black lab.
She has taught religious school on/off for the past 13 years in Fl, NC, and MA. During the week she is an administrative assistant and a teacher at a Jewish preschool and is also a mom of 2 boys, a 4.5 year old and a 20 month old. She also have a black lab.
Chelsea Rapoport is teaching 2nd/3rd grade for the second year in a row. She works full-time as a cancer researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and also resides in a Moishe House, a house that caters to the young adult Jewish community in the Boston area. She thoroughly enjoyed teaching last year and is looking forward to a new year! She loves getting to know her students well, and is open to any feedback that parents have to best facilitate their children's learning experiences. In her free time, she enjoys reading, running, and hosting Shabbats and other events for young professionals in the Jewish community.
Liora Silkes is super excited to teach 4/5th grade this year at Temple B'nai Brith! She has taught Hebrew school and been a songleader for Jewish communities in both the Boston area and in Seattle, where she grew up. Liora is passionate about good food, good music, and environmentalism, and spends her days working on the Mass Save residential energy efficiency program. She is looking forward to meeting the Temple B'nai Brith community soon!
Simcha Halpert-Hanson is a teacher, song-facilitator, drummer and ritual leader. Simcha has led tefillah workshops, klaf (holy parchment) production workshops, text study and facilitated rhythmic and songful prayer experiences in many communities including Adamah Farm and Fellowship, Kol Tzedek of Philadelphia, First Friday Northampton, Kavod House Boston, BASE Manhattan, Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Connecticut, Nariya of Boston, Kolot Chayeinu of Brooklyn and Fort Tryon Jewish Center of Washington Heights. They founded Avodas Lev Northampton, a project based on Avodat Lev- a chant-based prayer practice that originated at Adamah Farm and Fellowship. Simcha also helped to found Nishmat Shoom, a minyan creating prayer spaces that center disabled, trans, Jews of color, queer, women and other marginalized identities. Simcha is currently in their first year of rabbinical school at Hebrew College. Simcha will teach 6/7 grade.