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Temple Judea welcomes its new education director, Seth Lewis Levin. Levin will be overseeing the campus Education Department and comes to the synagogue after the former enior director of education, Beth Young, took a position as the director of Jewish Life at Camp Coleman.
Levin, a long-time Temple member, brings a wealth of experience from both traditional and Jewish educational leadership. The team also has added new professionals, including Jackie Vera as the director of the Margaux School for Early Childhood Education. Vera brings more than 17 years of teaching Reggio and Jewish studies at the school and is passionate about instructional excellence. She is joined by Yuliette Gonzalez, the pedagogista at the Margaux School who also is celebrating over 17 years here.
Joining our team is Guy Nir, the new curriculum coordinator. Nir has led Jewish learning in Mexico City and Israel and will be adding Modern Hebrew to the programs. Skylar Kramer, the new director of Teen and Youth Engagement brings that “Camp Coleman magic” to engaging youth group activities from grades 1 to 12 as well as a critical Better Together program for teens and retirees.
Longtime leaders of the educational program are director of B’nai Mitzvah, Gaby Enser-Tangir, Mikki Feinberg, (former director of the Margaux School and now director of Community and Family Engagement for the Early Childhood Program) and Janice Garcia.
Enser-Tangir has expanded the B’nai Mitzvah program to include community and family engagement with the tweens, teens, and their families on Monday nights. Janice Garcia, Temple Judea’s accounts manager, personnel coordinator and educational registrar, has helped lead the team for over 17 years and recently revamped the communication, registration, and enrollment processes.
Under Levin’s direction, the Temple will be launching a new Jewish After School experience this coming fall with a generous $100,000 grant from the Jewish After School Accelerator, our Burger Family High Holy Days Youth Service & Cultural Endowment Fund, and the Temple Judea Unrestricted Endowment Fund. This enhancement to the education program steams from the decades-long success of the renowned Margaux Early Childhood School.
Initiatives for this year include expanding family and youth educational programming on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with partners BeWell Miami, Moving Traditions, Keshet, and the iCenter. The congregation also has expanded adult learning opportunities to include additional courses on Israel, Jewish women in leadership, parenting education, scholar-in-residence, and film series.
Next fall, the school will offer “wrap around” programming each day of the week for children ages 15 months to 12th grade as well as additional adult learning opportunities for parents, grandparents, empty-nesters, 20-somethings, and retirees. Torah study, Jewish history, Israel, Modern Hebrew, and play are at the center of all the work.
For more information about new programs, see the revamped website at:
https://www.judeagables.org/learning.html.
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