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Meet our team!​

Our 2022-2023 Teachers

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Sophie Handloff (she/her) -- 2/3 and 6/7 Hebrew
My name is Sophie Handloff and I have been teaching Hebrew School in Burlington, Vermont for the past four years. I moved to Somerville to pursue my doctorate in Occupational Therapy at Tufts and I am excited to join the B’nai Brith team and engage with the students in a creative and meaningful way!
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Michelle Izadi (She/Her) -- K/1 Jewish studies and Hebrew
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Michelle Izadi is excited to be returning for her fourth school year teaching Kindergarten/1st grade at B'nai Brith. During the week you can find Michelle at Yal-Day-New as Infant/Toddler Coordinator & Operations Manager and is also a mom of 2 wonderful boys, a 4.5 year old and a 7.5 year old. She also has a black lab.
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David Nurenberg, Ph.D. (He/Him) --  2/3 and 6/7 Jewish studies 
has been a teacher for 22 years and is currently an Associate Professor of Education at Lesley University. He writes about issues of education and social justice, in both Jewish and general-audiences publications. 
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Eri Solomon (They/Them) -- 4/5 Jewish studies and Hebrew
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Seth Weiss (He/him) -- Nitzanim 
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 !​

Our Madirichim

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Annike Green (she/her)
Annike is a sophomore at Umass Boston. She attended school at temple B'nai Brith and had her bat mitzvah there on Halloween 2015. She is passionate about cats and horror movies.
Jacob Soltysiak
​Lilia Jacobs Kriegel

Substitute teachers

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Alex Rittenberg works full time for the Boys and Girls Club of Charlestown.  Alex is passionate about education, health, and Judaism.  Before college, Alex spent a year in Israel studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and working with kids on a kibbutz in Haifa.  She is very excited to start working with CBBCS!
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