MEET OUR CURRICULUM TEAM

L'vaker's lessons are built and updated by a team of Jewish educators from across the global Jewish community. We hold advanced degrees, rabbinic ordination and decades of hands-on teaching experience in various community educational settings including camps, congregational schools, day schools, synagogues and university campuses,

Tamara Rebick
Founder & Principal Creator

Tamara advises Jewish leaders on engagement strategy, experiential learning, Israel education and program optimization. With close to 30 years of professional leadership experience, she is a trusted educator and thought partner to Jewish day and congregational schools, youth movements, synagogues, summer camps, Hillels, Federations, and foundations.

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Arielle Branitsky
Co-Creator & Operations Strategist

Arielle Branitsky is a consultant who helps organizations achieve their goals, with specializations in experience design, strategic planning, project management, and leadership development. She holds Master’s degrees in Jewish Education and Jewish Nonprofit Management from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.

Expertise You Can Trust from Leading Educators

Daniel Abramson is the Curriculum Development Director for the Tikkun Project at The Leo Baeck Day School, holds a Master's in Education from the University of Toronto, and has over 20 years of experience specializing in K-8 Jewish education.

Daniel Abramson

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Danya Koplowitz is a Toronto-based Jewish educator with over 15 years of experience, holding a Master of Science in Education and a Master of Jewish Professional Studies.

Danya Koplowitz

Dr. Evan Goldenthal holds a PhD in Humanities from York University (Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages), an MA from the University of Toronto, and an MS/MA from Yeshiva University in Jewish Education and Medieval Jewish Studies, and now works as the Senior Advancement Officer, Alumni Relations at TanenbaumCHAT.

Dr. Evan Goldenthal

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Michelle Brownstein Horowitz holds a Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Curriculum and Instruction, and has nearly 15 years of experience as an educator, including nine years leading Hillel at UNC Chapel Hill.

Michelle Brownstein Horowitz

Rabbi Avi Olitzky works as a consultant, speaker, author, and Jewish communal futurist. He previously served as senior rabbi to one of the largest congregations in North America and founded innovative Jewish and secular production companies, and he now advises camps, youth organizations, synagogues, and nonprofits.

Rabbi Avi Olitzky

Shalom Orzach is a senior educational consultant, public speaker, and author on contemporary Israel. Shalom has previously worked with some of the most prestigious programs dedicated to developing Jewish identity in Israel and the Diaspora. He spends his time working with summer camp counsellors, engaging synagogue communities, and inspiring generations of emerging leaders.

Shalom Orzach

Rabbi Jesse Paikin is a teacher, spiritual leader, and designer holding a Master's in Clinical Psychology, Education and Spirituality from Columbia University, with prior studies at York University, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, University of Toronto, NYU, Yeshivat Hadar, and the National Theatre School of Canada. He has been a Research Fellow with M², designing new pedagogies for Jewish educators, and the host of the podcast Shoot! Jesse is currently the Director of Rabbanut North America at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Rabbi Jesse Paikin

Ashira Prizant holds a Master of Teaching from OISE at the University of Toronto and a Certificate in Experiential Jewish Education from M², with over 15 years of experience across formal and informal Jewish education settings.

Ashira Prizant

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Susanna (Shoshi) Rothschild is a consultant and facilitator with 20 years of experience in the nonprofit, summer camping, and arts sectors, specializing in organizational culture, strategic planning, and workplace resilience. She holds a bachelor's degree from McGill University and a master's in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University.

Susanna (Shoshi) Rothschild

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Dr. Alexandria Fanjoy Silver (BAH, Queen's University; MA, Brandeis University; PhD, University of Toronto) teaches high school at TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto, specializing in Jewish history and Holocaust curriculum.

Dr. Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

Based in Jerusalem, Noa holds a BA in sociology and anthropology from The Hebrew University and brings years of experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research. She has been actively engaged in formal and informal education since childhood and now enjoys leveraging the social sciences to deepen impact in community organizations.

Noa Voss

Rabbi Jeremy Winaker is the Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Hillel Network, ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, with a BA from Swarthmore College and a Certificate in School Management and Leadership from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Rabbi Jeremy Winaker

BACKGROUNDS

Ashkenazi, Jewish by choice,
Mizrahi, Sephardic
Conservative, interfaith, just Jewish, Modern Orthodox,
non-denominational, Reform,
secular-Zionist
American, Canadian, Israeli
EXPERTISE

Adult & family education
Campus/Hillel
Formal education
(elementary, middle, high school)
Israel education
Experiential and Camp education
Synagogue & JCC part-time education
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

B.A., B.Ed, M.A., M.Ed, Ed.D, Ph.D
Ordained Rabbis

WHERE DOES AI FIT IN ALL THIS?

We love a good “bot chevruta” / AI thought partner. AI is genuinely useful: it offers a first outline, identifies and summarizes text and saves so much time generating activity ideas. We consult AI in designing some L’vaker activities but then we spend more time (often more than we should) editing, analyzing and re-editing to make sure we got it right for you and your learners.

Whereas AI saves you time, your learners need something thoughtful and curated. We know you want that for your learners too. The L’vaker team also saves you time, plus we know which midrash will speak to a room of teens, which resource sends the wrong message to your community, and when a confident-sounding answer is wrong.

L’vaker’s authors are fluent in nuance, context and emotional intelligence. This comes from a combination of human judgment, research, and years of experience failing forward with other humans IRL (in real life). Every L’vaker lesson has been developed by real people - the subject matter experts above who bring decades of field experience teaching and learning to read a room.

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