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School & Educational Setting Partners

Since our early days developing its techniques and approach at JCDS in Boston, we have worked with over two hundred schools and other educational institutions in the United States, Canada and beyond. From intensive, multi-year embedded services initiatives to individualized consultations or professional learning opportunities, we are proud to have helped elevate the teaching and learning of Hebrew with our school partners.

CALIFORNIA

Ilan Ramon, Agoura Hills
Temple Emanuel Academy Day School, Beverly Hills
Valley Beth Shalom, Encino
Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School, Foster City
Pressman Academy, Los Angeles
Shalhevet, Los Angeles
Sinai-Akiba Academy, Los Angeles
TIOH (Temple Israel of Hollywood), Los Angeles
Yula Girls High School, Los Angeles
Beged Kefet ICC, Palo Alto
Adat Ari El, Valley Village
Kadima Day School, West Hills

COLORADO

Denver Jewish Day School, Denver
Einstein Academy, Denver

CONNECTICUT

Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford, Hartford

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School, Washington

FLORIDA

Hebrew Academy (RASG), Miami Beach

GEORGIA

Atlanta Jewish Academy, Atlanta
Temima High School for Girls, Atlanta
The Weber School Atlanta, Atlanta
Torah Day School – Atlanta, Atlanta
The Epstein School, Sandy Springs

ILLINOIS

Chicago Jewish Day School, Chicago
Rochelle Zell Jewish High School, Deerfield
iCenter/Public High School Hebrew Teacher Group, Northbrook

MASSACHUSETTS

MISTI – MIT Internaitonal – Israel Program, Cambridge
The Rashi School, Dedham
Kesher Newton MA, Newton
Solomon Schechter Day School (SSDS) – Newton MA, Newton
Hebrew College, Newton Centre
Kesher – Cambridge, Somerville
Gann Academy, Waltham
Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, Watertown

MARYLAND

Krieger Schechter Day School, Pikesville
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville

MICHIGAN

Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Frankel Jewish Academy – West Bloomfield Township MI, West Bloomfield Township

NORTH CAROLINA

The Lerner Jewish Community Day School, Durham

NEW JERSEY

Machon Romemu, Clifton

NEW YORK
SAR Academy, Bronx Hannah Senesh Community Day School, Brooklyn Luria Academy, Brooklyn Beit Rabban Day School, New York The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York, New York Ramah Day Camp, Nyack The Leffell School Schechter Manhattan Kinneret Day School
PENNSYLVANIA

Kohelet Yeshiva Lab school, Merion Station
Tamim Academy, Narberth
Perelman Jewish Day School,
Wynnewood

SOUTH CAROLINA

Addlestone Hebrew Academy Charleston, Charleston

TENNESSEE

Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School, Knoxville

WASHINGTON

Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, Bellevue
Seattle Jewish Community School SJCS, Seattle

CANADA

ONTARIO
Tanenbaum CHAT -Ontario Canada, North York
Associated Hebrew Schools, North York, Toronto
Bialik Hebrew Day School, Toronto

Our Field & Ecosystem Partners

Hebrew at the Center and our school and educational setting collaborators exist within the broader field of Hebrew language education and the even wider Jewish educational and second language acquisition ecosystems. We are excited to be a contributing partner to these systems, adding value and content knowledge in the form of field craft, data, expertise, and vision.

Join Hebrew teachers, Hebrew leaders, and other school leaders for an intensive, virtual conference November 16-17, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT. 

Click here for more information and to register

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Walter A. Winshall

Director

Walter A. Winshall is a founding member of the board of Hebrew at the Center. He is a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. He is also a director at a number of early-stage companies. In addition to HATC, he is a board member of the National Yiddish Book Center and MIT Hillel. He was a founding board member of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School and the Institute for the Advancement of Hebrew.
He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from Harvard Law School. Walt lives in Weston, Massachusetts with his wife, Arnee, chair of the Hebrew at the Center Board.
Walt serves on the Finance Committee and the Advocacy & Strategic Task Force Committee.

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Daniel Serfaty

Director

Daniel Serfaty is currently Chair of Aptima. As Aptima’s Founder and CEO, Daniel Serfaty has led Aptima to become the premier Human Performance Engineering business in the world. His work optimizes the integration of humans with intelligent technologies in defense, healthcare, aerospace, and education. His keynote addresses around the world are encouraging his audiences to imagine a future in which human and artificial intelligences work together in the service of humankind.
Daniel’s interdisciplinary background includes degrees in mathematics, psychology, aerospace engineering, and international business from the Université de Paris, the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and University of Connecticut. His doctoral work has pioneered the study of distributed command teams. He is the recipient of the UConn Distinguished Service Award and has been inducted in its Engineering Hall of Fame.
Daniel is the co-Chair of the New England Israeli American Council (IAC), the board of the Friends of the Academy of Hebrew Language and, in addition, serves on the boards of several business and philanthropic organizations in both the United States and Israel, with an eye towards building bridges between these communities. Daniel serves on Hebrew at the Center’s Yom Iyyun Task Force and is co-chair of the Board Development Task Force.
Daniel lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Irene.

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Todd Sukol

Director

Todd Sukol has worked in and around the nonprofit and philanthropic sector most of his career. At the Mayberg Foundation where he is Executive Director, he oversees the foundation’s strategic philanthropy, grant-making and development of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC) and the Incubator for Emerging Jewish Initiatives (IEJI). In addition, Todd is a founding board member of The Witness Institute. Previously, Todd was president of Do More Mission, a firm that increases nonprofit impact through philanthropic advisory services to high net worth individuals and foundations and management services to small and mid-sized charitable organizations.

Todd received his formal training in Journalism and Public Relations from Pennsylvania State University. He studied
at the University of Manchester in England and completed a two-year Yeshiva program at Machon Shlomo: Alexander and Eva Heiden Torah Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Sukol graduated from the Executive Master’s program
at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University where he is currently enrolled in a doctoral program. Todd and his wife Amy (an active Hebrew at the Center volunteer) live in Silver Springs, Maryland. Todd was a member of the Strategic Reset Group, chaired the Strategic Transition and Planning Work Group, and is the current co-chair of the Governance Committee/Committee on Trustees and Board Development Task Force.

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Neil Kuttner

Treasurer

Neil Kuttner is the Chief Operations Officer of Cross Shore Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor. He has worked in the financial services industry for forty years, previously at Sanford Bernstein & Co. where he was the CFO. Neil is a CPA and has also taught tax planning at Lehman College. Neil has BA in economics from City College of New York and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School.
Neil lives in Manhattan and has two grown sons, Sam and Matthew, both of whom are involved Jewishly. Neil has long been active in the Jewish community has previously served as treasurer of Camp Ramah in New England, treasurer of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, board chair of the Academy for Jewish Religion, and synagogue president of Park Slope Jewish Center.
Neil views fluency in Hebrew as one of the important building blocks in positive Jewish identity, though his Hebrew language skills do need brushing up. He chairs Hebrew at the Center’s Finance Committee and is looking forward to continuing to contribute both his time and expertise.

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Joanne Blauer

Clerk

Joanne Blauer was formerly the Associate Dean, Secretary and Executive Vice Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City.
Joanne has a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Scripps College and a JD from the University of Washington School of Law. She spent her junior year of college at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is the past COO of Hebrew at the Center and a founding board member of the Institute for the Advancement of Hebrew. In addition, Joanne has previously served on the board of Scripps College, the National Association of College and University Attorneys and is an inactive member of the Washington State Bar Association. She lives in New York City and Richmond Shores, Massachusetts. Joanne co- chairs the Governance Committee/Committee on Trustees and serves on the CEO Support and Evaluation Committee (CSEC).

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Arnee Winshall

President

co-founded Hebrew at the Center with Dr. Vardit Ringvald and
Sharona Givol. She is Founding Chair of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School and sits on the boards of Jewish Interactive and Incubator for Emerging Jewish Initiatives (IEJI).
In addition, Arnee is a member of the JEIC advisory and co-founder of DEEP (a PLC of Developing Embedded Expertise Programs). In the past, she served chair of the RAVSAK board, on the Board of Overseers of Hebrew College, on the Executive Committee of JESNA, as the lay co-chair of the Lippman Kanfer Institute, and on the boards of The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, the JCC’s of Greater Boston, the Foundation for Jewish Camp, JECEI, and the Yiddish Book Center.

Arnee received her undergraduate degree in contrastive linguistics from Boston University and, after serving in the Peace Corps in Thailand, pursued graduate studies in developmental psycholinguistics at the University of Chicago.
Arnee has two adult children and lives in Weston, Massachusetts with her husband, Walt.