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Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz

Faigie Horowitz, MS is a writer, political advocate, and nonprofit veteran who serves as the Rebbetzin of Agudas Achim of Lawrence. She is a co-founder of JWOW!, Jewish Women of Wisdom, a community of Orthodox midlife women.

Rebbetzin Aviel Brodkin

Aviel Brodkin is a passionate teacher of Torah, synthesizing Jewish wisdom with personal meaning for navigating life. She is known for her empowering self-development workshops and parent coaching as the Rebbetzin of Congregation Kesser Israel in Portland, Oregon. Most recently she served as Principal of Maayan Torah day school for ten years which she and […]

Dr. Vera Basch Moreen

Dr. Vera Basch Moreen holds a doctorate from Harvard University and has taught Islam at Swarthmore, Haverford, and Franklin & Marshall Colleges.  She specializes in the history, literature, and art of Iranian Jews between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries based on Judeo-Persian manuscripts.  The author of several books and numerous articles, her most recent book […]

Frani S. Pollack, LSW, Ph.D.

Frani S. Pollack is a licensed social work and psychologist. She has worked with individuals, couples, and families for over 25 years. Frani specializes in family work and teens/young adults struggling with multiple challenges. She teaches courses on eating disorders at the Sara Schenirer school of social work and teaches family work at the University of […]

Roz Sherman, M.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Roz Sherman is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Manhattan.  She earned her B.A. in English Literature from Barnard College, her Hebrew Teacher’s Diploma from Yeshiva University Teachers Institute for Women, and her M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies.  After a successful career as manager of a […]

Bea Hollander-Goldfein Ph.D., LMFT

  Bea Hollander-Goldfein is the former Director of the Post Graduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Council for Relationships. Since 1991 Bea has been the Director of the Transcending Trauma Project which is a large scale research program investigating coping and adaptation after extreme trauma. She holds the position of Clinical […]

Jessica Kalmar, Ph.D.

Dr. Jessica Kalmar holds a Ph.D. in psychology with a neuropsychology specialization from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the recipient of numerous professional honors and several foundation grants, and served as a co-investigator on a grant from the National Institutes of Health. At Lakeland University, Dr. Kalmar received […]

Sara Just-Michael

Sara Just–Michael is the co-executive director of GrowTorah. She joined the GrowTorah Farmily in 2018 as a part-time educator and media manager. In her current role, Sara manages all school and camp garden programs, teaches several on a weekly basis, serves as the director of Camp GrowTorah, and much more. She and GrowTorah graduated from the […]

Mrs. Emma Katz

Mrs. Emma Katz earned her bachelor’s degree in Judaic studies and education from Stern College for Women, and her master’s degree in Jewish education from Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Emma has taught in many formal and informal Jewish educational settings, including Shulamith High School for Girls, Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Bruriah […]

Mrs. Jaclyn Sova

After graduating from SKA High School for Girls, Michlalah, and Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, Jaclyn earned her master’s in education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration and is in the process of finishing the doctoral program there. While in New York, Jaclyn taught at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. […]