Mandel
Center at JCC Association Joins with AVI CHAI to Launch Jewish
Journey for JCC Resident Camp Directors
JCC Association is pleased to announce the Mandel Center for
Jewish Education's first cohort of AVI CHAI-Mandel Senior
Fellows chosen to participate in Lekhu Lakhem: Jewish Educational
Journeys for JCC Resident Camp Directors, a two-year seminar
sponsored by a generous grant from AVI CHAI.
The Senior Fellows are:
Joel Charnick – Camp JCA Shalom, Malibu,
CA
Jordan Dale - Surprise Lake Camp, New York, NY
Bradley Finkel - Camp Chi, Northbrook, IL
Rebecca Glass - Capital Camps, Rockville, MD
Kathy Jonas - Camp Kingswood, Newton Centre, MA
Bill Kaplan – Camp JCA Shalom, Malibu, CA
Sid Milech – Harry Bronfman Y Country Camp, Montreal,
Quebec
Amy Posner - Camp Edward Isaacs, Queens, NY
Jessica Rothman-Church - Emma Kaufmann Camp, Pittsburgh, PA
Aaron Selkow - Pinemere Camp, Philadelphia, PA
Debby Shriber - Camp Poyntelle - Bayside, NY
Jodi Sperling - Camp Wise, Beachwood, OH
Anne Tursky - NJ YM-YWHA Camps, Fairfield, NJ
Howard Wagan - Camp Interlaken, Milwaukee, WI
From December 2004 through December 2006,
these 14 Senior Fellows will participate in a series of five
seminars in North America, one extended seminar in Israel,
along with an ongoing program of Jewish learning and educational
mentoring. They will be exposed to and learn from renowned
scholars, teachers, camp educators and mentors. “Our
vision for Lekhu Lakhem incorporates taking our directors
on personal journeys of Jewish learning and infusing them
with the passion to provide Jewish and educational visionary
leadership to their camps,” said Dr. Alvin Mars, director
of the Mandel Center for Jewish Education at JCC Association.
MCJE was founded to contribute to Jewish educational
excellence in JCCs by providing training opportunities for
the professional personnel and lay leaders of JCCs and the
JCC Movement, and by inspiring and offering guidance to JCCs
that are developing Jewish educational initiatives.
AVI CHAI is a private foundation committed
to the perpetuation of the Jewish people, Judaism, and the
centrality of the State of Israel to the Jewish people.
JCC Association is the leadership network of,
and central agency for the Jewish Community Center Movement,
which is comprised of more than 275 JCCs, YM-YWHAs and camps
in the U. S. and Canada. JCC Association offers a wide range
of services and resources to strengthen the capacity of its
affiliates to provide educational, cultural, social, Jewish
identity-building, and recreational programs to enhance the
lives of North American Jews of all ages and backgrounds.
Additionally, the movement fosters and strengthens connections
between North American Jews and Israel as well as with world
Jewry. JCC Association is also the only U.S. government accredited
agency for serving the religious and social needs of Jewish
military personnel, their families, and patients in VA hospitals
through JWB Jewish Chaplains Council.
Miriam
Rinn
Communications Manager
JCC Association
15 E. 26 St., NY, NY 10010
212-786-5092
fax: 212-481-4174
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