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Ariana Reich is the Assistant Principal of The JEC Lower School in Elizabeth, NJ, bringing over a decade of experience as a leader in Jewish Education. Previously, she served as Director of Jewish Life and Learning and Programming Director at the JEC. Morah Reich combines her administrative expertise with her background in camp leadership to […]

Naomi Rotblat is a self-employed attorney in private practice. Naomi serves as co-chair of the OU Women’s Initiative Commission and is an OU Board member. She is the president of the Teaneck Mikvah, a member of the Board of Governors of RYNJ and is a member of various committees at Torah Academy of Bergen County.  […]

Hyndi Mendelowitz moved from NY to Yerushalaim in 2000.  She lectures on Tanach and Jewish studies in numerous seminaries and women’s learning forums.  For the past twelve years, her exploration of Nach inspires hundreds of women weekly at the Chochmat Nashim lecture series in Beit Knesset Yeshurun.

Hadar Weiss is the Orthodox Union’s Chief Institutional Advancement Officer. He brings with him over a decade of development experience in the Jewish Federation system and leans on his prior experience as a corporate strategy consultant. Hadar attended Yeshiva University undergrad and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School. He lives in West Orange with his wife […]

Chayie Chinn is the Mikvah Manager and an attendant at the Wallerstein Mikvah in Silver Spring, MD, and has served in various roles at the mikvah for the past 18 years. In her role as a Mikvah educator of the Robin Niman Mikvah Education Fund, Chayie provides comprehensive training to mikvah attendants and taharas hamishpacha […]

An only child, Sarah Rivkah was 9 years old when her mother passed away after 6 ½ years of battling an illness. Her father remarried a few months later. The loneliness she felt following her mother’s passing sparked a determination to one day provide comfort and support to teen girls dealing with parental loss. She […]

Jodi Stender, CNM, MA Jodi Stender has dedicated her career to women’s health, wellness, and empowerment. She began as a doula, guiding women through pregnancy to support both mental and physical well-being. After gaining experience as a birth and postpartum doula, she pursued her dream of becoming a midwife. She started her nursing career in maternity and […]

Mrs. Ayelet Lehmann is originally from Brooklyn, NY, where she began her teaching career at the very middle school she herself attended. In her ten years in the classroom, she has taught many grades and subjects, each with passion and love, creating a positive classroom environment for her students. Mrs. Lehmann has also been involved in many youth organizations, […]

Mrs. Kochava Yitzhak was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Berlin, Germany.Her family moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree at Yeshiva University. She has been teaching Judaic studies to high school girls for 25 years. She currently teaches at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in […]