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Brianna Brostoff grew up in southern California, active at Temple Aliyah. She attended LA Hebrew High and Camp Hilltop in the summer. After participating in Young Judea’s Year Course, Brianna came to San Francisco and quickly jumped into active involvement in the Jewish community. She has been a Masa Israel Intern and Koret Intern at SF Hillel, when she is not studying sociology at SF State University. After a successful year teaching in our Hevruta Hebrew Program, Brianna is very excited to teach our first-third graders in our Sunday Morning Program this year! Rikki Condos is a 17-year-old Senior at Terra Nova High School in Pacifica. She is involved with the theatre department at school, serving as Costume and Production Manager - with college approaching, she's looking for schools where she can continue to study theatre! She has travelled to Israel and looks forward to continuing to share many stories with our YAFE community and specifically with our first-third graders! David Morgenstern, Cantorial Soloist, not only tutors our B’nai Mitzvah students individually, he also guides their Hevruta learning in preparation for becoming Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah. David continues to share his passion for Judaism and love for Torah with our students as they prepare to become Jewish adults. Shani Newman joins our Sunday Morning Program with grades 6 & 7, after a successful year teaching Hebrew during the week as a Hevruta Hebrew teacher last year! Shani lived in Israel from age 5 until she was 12, when she moved to Irvine, CA. She studies Math at SF State and looks forward to becoming a math teacher. She has also been an intern at SF Hillel and has spent many summers as a camper, counselor and Junior-CIT advisor at Camp Alonim, a Jewish overnight camp in Southern California. An avid Israeli folk dancer, she teaches Israeli dance at SF Hillel. Maybe she’ll even teach us!
Dona Standel returns to BIJ's faculty after a few years off. She's finished her undergraduate studies at SF State and worked for SF Hillel last year. After a summer at Camp Newman, Dona is excited to share her love of Hebrew and enthusiasm for all-things-Jewish with the students (especially our teens in grades 8-11) and their families in the YAFE program!
Ricki Weintraub joins YAFE as our music specialist. Her passion for music is infectious! You will be singing and humming throughout the halls all year.
Jamie Rafaela Wolfe is a product of 11 years of Jewish Day School education. She loved it so much she completed the DeLeT (Day School Leadership through Teaching) program through Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Jamie also completed all the coursework for her California State Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Jamie reads, writes, and speaks Hebrew and has lived in Israel. Jamie will continue to share her enthusiasm for everything Jewish with our 4th & 5th grade students on Sundays.
Neil Bronstein is appreciated for his friendly and welcoming face and can-do attitude. He is here to set up for services, provide security/logistics and to help afterwards. At the same time, he will likely ask about your health and give you a firm handshake. Rabbi Danny Gottlieb Rabbi Danny Gottlieb comes to us from Toronto, Canada, where he served the Canadian Reform Jewish community for more than 30 years, as a synagogue educator, director of the Canadian region of the Union for Reform Judaism, and most recently as rabbi of Temple Kol Ami in Thornhill, Ontario. He brings with him a love of Jewish life and Jewish learning, and a strong commitment to the synagogue as a sacred community. Sara Heckelman, Administrator, brings a big heart to her work as well as knowledge of the community through her years as a member of the congregation. Her father was a rabbi, so she's very familiar with the day-to-day needs of a shul. |
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