News from the William Davidson School Alumni
Mazal Tov to 2024 graduates on their next chapter!
Justin David is the interim rabbi of Beacon Hebrew Alliance.
Maya Ehrenreich is a Talmud teacher at the Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in New York City.
Andrew Ergas is the chief executive officer at Hebrew at the Center.
Stacey Glazer is program and conference director of NewCAJE.
Grace Hack is continuing her JTS studies in the Kekst Graduate School.
Hannah Isaacs-Arkin is the education director of Adath Israel in Merion, PA.
David Kessel is a senior vice president and director of the Mandel Center for Jewish Education at the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.
Luciana Pajecki Lederman is the director of The Beit Midrash and Nishma summer program at JTS.
Alice Manning is the program manager of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City.
Lucy Marshall is the director of community services at the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis.
Aimee Schwartz is the program and events manager at Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, NY.
Robert Shorr is the high school Jewish life chair at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD.
Dov Smilovic is a Jewish studies teacher at the Shefa School in New York City.
Hannah Stein is a kindergarten teacher at Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos, CA.
We are very proud of our alumni who shared the following professional achievements and brought us up to date on their roles. If you have an update that you would like to share in the next issue, please reach out to Melissa Friedman, Director of Alumni Affairs at mefriedman@jtsa.edu.
Mazal tov to WDS alumnae Anya Morgulis and Jessica Jobanek, two of the five Jewish educators who were recognized by and received the Jewish Education Project’s 2024 The Robert M. Sherman Young Pioneers Award.
Adam Bender is the newly appointed director of engagement of Queens College Hillel.
Stephanie Ben Simon recently became the director of education at Temple B’nai Shalom in Fairfax Station, VA.
Rafi Cohen is the rabbi and assistant director of meaningful life/spiritual care of the New Jewish Home in New York City.
Lynn Anne Cutler recently became the director of education and youth of Beth El Synagogue in Durham, NC.
Tehilah Eisenstadt is now the assistant director of congregational learning at East End Temple in New York City.
Heather Rubin Fiedler was promoted to vice president for impact and strategy at the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford.
Rachel L. Figurasmith is serving as the interim executive director of National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance.
Annie Glickman is the new head of school of the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy in Overland Park, KS.
Allison Gutman recently joined the William Davidson Foundation as its Jewish life program officer.
Saul Kaiserman is now the scholar-in-residence at Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue in New York City.
Judd Kruger Levingston won the 2024 Covenant Award.
Yoni Nadiv recently became the senior director of leadership development of JewishColumbus.
Paulette Posner recently joined the Bronx Psychiatric Center as a rabbi and is providing spiritual care to residents.
Yanira Quinones recently became the director of programs and membership engagement at Temple Beth El of Great Neck, NY.
Adi Raz is co-director of the Middlebury School of Hebrew in Middlebury, VT.
Geza “Rafi” Roehrig is featured in the film “AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence,” a deep dive into the creative responsibility of writers when faced with the Holocaust, catastrophe, and genocide.
Kim Rosenthal was recently appointed as senior Jewish educator of Hillel at the University of Oregon.
Calle Schueler was recently appointed director of education and engagement at Temple Beth-El in Ithaca, NY.
Kathy Schwartz was recently promoted and now serves as the director of HUC-JIR’s executive MA in Jewish education program.
Holly Seidenfeld was promoted to principal of Katz Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton, FL.
Rachel Smith was recently appointed assistant professor in the department of history at University of California Irvine.
Sarah Ellen Zarrow received one of AJS’s Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Awards for her book, Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941.
