WORK
EXPERIENCE:
2002-present
Aardvark Educational Technologies, Principal
Partial Client list:
Learning for Life Center, Huntington,
NY
– Grant writing, establishment of office procedures, development of Access database, staff development
LifeTECH Center, Cedarhurst NY - Grant writing, establishment of office procedures,
development of Access database, staff development
MIIL Corp., Spring Valley, NY -
Grant writing, establishment of office procedures, development of Access database, staff development, educational software design
ORT Operations
USA, Queens, NY- Grant writing, establishment of office procedures, development of Access database, staff development, marketing
and student recruitment
TERNYY, Plainview, NY –
Business startup consultation
Reverend
Karen Engleman – Grant writing, technology training
NYIT, Old
Westbury NY 2000-present
Graduate School of Education
Adjunct Instructor
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Courses taught:
EDIN 617 - Instructional Uses of the Internet (online)
EDIN 615 - Technology for Special & At-Risk Populations (online)
Touro College, New York, NY 1998 - Present
Division of Distance Learning 2001-2002
Director
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Established business plan and budget for
Division of Distance Learning
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Manage all aspects of New York based online courses
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Implemented necessary infra-structure modifications
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Wrote application to NYSED for permission
to offer degrees online
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Created advertising campaign
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Recruited students and faculty
Department of Academic Computing
Director of Instructional Technology 2000-2001
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Cultivated collaborative partnerships between
Touro College, K-12 schools
and educational technology companies, including seminars for principals of nonpublic schools
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Supervised development of online undergraduate
and graduate courses
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Trained and mentored online faculty in Web
Course in a Box and Blackboard 5 course- management software
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Wrote Faculty Handbook for Online Teaching
and wrote Online Student Handbook
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Planned, designed, delivered, and supervised
faculty training in productivity tools and educational applications
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Designed MS degree in educational technology
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Wrote approval application to NYSED for MS degree in educational technology
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Created curriculum for and supervised teaching
of graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology
Department of Academic Computing
Assistant Director Dept of Academic Computing for
Instructional Technology 1998-2000
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Wrote successful proposals for contracts
worth over $500,000 to provide educational technology training for teachers in public and non-public schools in New York City
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Created curriculum, taught courses, and
trained instructors for courses
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Was staff representative to Touro College
Internet, ESL Technology, Health Sciences Technology, and Physicians Assistant Program Technology committees
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Participated in International Judaic Technology
Conference held in Beersheba, Israel 1999
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Initiated/coordinated Judaic Educational
Technology Conference at Touro College 2000
Department
of Business
Adjunct Instructor 2000-present
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Courses taught:
EBM101 - Principles of Management
EBK101 - Principles of Marketing
EBK201 - Consumer Behavior
GBK 202 - Marketing Research
GBK204 - Marketing Management
GBM 227 – Principles of Office Technology
EBM493 - Business Policy
Graduate School of Education and Psychology
Adjunct Instructor 1996 - 2003
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Courses taught:
EDU 616 – Finance for School Administrators
EDSE 650 – Technology for General and Special
Education
SPED 650 - Technology and Special Education
EDPS 610 – Essentials of Measurement and Evaluation
Department of Computer
Science
Adjunct Instructor 1994 - 1995
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Courses taught:
MAT 140 – Introduction to Computers with Business Applications
GCO 140 – Introduction to Computers
Hebrew Academy for Special Children, Brooklyn,
NY 1996-1998
Technology Coordinator
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Chaired committee that developed technology
plan for this five campus special education school.
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Created and managed budget, self-audit and
purchasing for State-funded program providing technology training and other services for disabled students under IDEA
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Trained teachers in the use of adaptive
computer hardware and software designed for multiply-handicapped and retarded students ranging in age from pre-school to twenty-one
by conducting demonstration lessons with students, conducting in-service workshops and individual sessions with teachers.
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On-going support for Windows 95, Windows
97, and Microsoft Office Professional for administrative and teaching staff
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Workshops for parents about latest developments
in assistive technology
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Assistive technology evaluations of students
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Developed cost allocation spreadsheet
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Liaison to Orion Systems, the vendor for
administrative software for special education schools including provision of training to HASC staff and supervision of data
transmission to Orion
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Developed technology plan for five campus
special education school
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Designed customized curriculum software
for preK-12 general and special needs students
Yeshivat Mizrachi L’Banim
(now Derech HaTorah) Brooklyn, NY 1990-1992
Computer Teacher
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Taught computer literacy (through BASIC
programming), word-processing, data base and spreadsheets to pre1A through 8th grade students.
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Designed customized curriculum software
for pre1A students.
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Founder and faculty adviser to the Mizrachi
Sun, a monthly student literary journal.
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Judge in the science fair.
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Technology consultant to library and administrative
staff.
East Midwood Jewish Center Brooklyn, NY 1987- 1990
Rabbi Harry Halpern Day School of EMJC 1990
Computer Teacher
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Taught computer literacy, word-processing,
database and spreadsheets to 2nd through 6th grade students.
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Created pilot program to introduce computer
curriculum into the school
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Consultant to resource room regarding hardware
and software.
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Designed customized curriculum software
for preK-12 general and special needs students
Adult
Education Program 1987- 1990
Teacher
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Designed curriculum for and taught course
in Jewish Living
Acme Reporting Service New York NY 1981-1990
Manager, then Owner
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Designed database application for accounting
and recordkeeping
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Introduced word processing
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Reduced outstanding receivables
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Assumed ownership in 1986.
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Doubled gross receipts and tripled net income
from 1985-88
NYC Sanitation Department,
Medical Clinic New York NY 1980-1981
Administrative Director
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Oversaw administrative matters for the Clinic
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Third party reimbursements to physicians
treating Sanitationmen injured in the line of duty
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Budget
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Purchasing
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Absence reporting and monitoring
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Initiated and supervised complex studies
and preparation of confidential policy recommendations for the director of Health and Safety
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Participated in policymaking with the Director
and Deputy Director of Health and Safety
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Acted for the Director of Health and Safety
in approving for payment bills for medical services to Sanitationmen injured in the line of duty ($560,000 in FY 1980)
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Consulted with unions
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Completed study of the operations of the
reimbursement unit that resulted in more efficient and expeditious payments to physicians.
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council New
York NY 1979-1980
Administrator
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Prepared analytical current reports on cash
status, income and expenses and advised the Executive Vice Chairman.
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Made projections and estimates of income
and expenses as required for budgeting
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Computed and prepared requests to various
funding sources
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Tracked and acknowledged allocations, commitments
and payments.
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Advised on needed changes in dues schedules.
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Dealt with landlords, space utilization,
arrangements for alterations and repairs, and investigated alternative quarters.
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Dealt with banks and brokers, investment
and turnover of funds, interest, savings, and certificates.
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Administered agency insurance, benefits
and retirement plans.
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Maintained schedule of payments and reports
for taxes, governmental and other agencies
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Sought legal or other professional services,
as needed
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Designed, established, and maintained financial
and personnel records
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Examined improved implemented and codified
office systems and procedures.
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Codified personnel practices after study
of existing procedures in the field.
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Dealt with professional staff on vacations,
leaves, and received and adjudicated requests and grievances of the professional personnel.
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Supervised the activities of the bookkeeper,
office manager and mailroom supervisor.
NYC Sanitation Department,
Department of Fiscal Services New
York NY 1979
Director of Budget and Data Analysis
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Performed internal audits of departmental
activities
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Performed complex analyses of budgetary
policy issues
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Prepared various reports and financial statements
for use of the Committsioner, the NYC Office of Management and Budget, the City and State Comptrollers, and other City, State
and Federal officials
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Prepared, submitted , defended and administered
the departmental expense ($27 million) and revenue ($13 million) budgets.
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Advised the Deputy Commissioner on budgetary
policy matters and the organizational consequences of various alternatives.
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Initiated and supervised studies and analyses
for the formulation and revision of agency budgetary policy.
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Directed and administered a professional
staff of internal auditors, analysts and budget personnel.
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Coordinated the efforts of the various units
of the Fiscal Services Bureau
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Audits and Accounts
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Purchasing
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Budget
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Payroll
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Supervised transition from manual record
keeping to reliance on the citywide computerized system (Integrated Financial Management System)
City of North Miami Beach, Florida 1978-1979
Controller
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Responsible for the entire financial function
of a municipality of 36,000 population with a total employee roster in excess of 450 and a total budget, including trust funds,
in excess of $32 million.
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Supervised the Finance Department
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Training and supervision, interviewing,
hiring and firing of 32 employees, ranging from graduate accountants and EDP personnel to water meter readers.
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Purchasing
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Data processing
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Payroll
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Accounts payable
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Accounts receivable
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Water meter reading and customer billing
for the municipal water and sewer system
NYC Office of Management and Budget, Office of Audit Coordination and Review
Associate Budget Examiner, then Administrative Staff Analyst 1975-1978
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Responsible for the training and supervision,
interviewing, hiring and firing of 1 Audit Specialist, 2 Assistant Audit Specialists, and 2 Summer Interns.
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Read and evaluated management audits of
various City agencies conducted by the City, State, and Special State Deputy Comptrollers
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Coordinated the agencies’ responses
to these reports
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Kept the Mayor informed as to the nature
of these responses and of the management improvements being implemented by these agencies.
NYC Transportation Administration
Assistant Budget Examineer, then Associate Budget Examiner 1972-1975
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Responsible for the training and supervision,
interviewing, hiring and firing of 2 Assistant Budget Examiners.
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Prepared, submitted, defended and administered
the Other Than Personal Service budget
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Coordinated submission and defense of entire
agency budget of $170 million.
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Designed and implemented a computerized
budget reporting system that later became the prototype for the new citywide Integrated Financial Management System that was
in place until Fall 2001.
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Liaison with the NY Telephone Company for
installation and removal of equipment after conducting telephone usage studies.
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Functioned as internal management consultant
for the Director of Fiscal Affairs.
NY City Council
Legislative Finance Analyst 1970-1972
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Read, analyzed and prepared reports on legislation
pending before the Finance Committee, including but not limited to the Capital and Expense Budgets and amendments thereto.
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Heard and summarized testimony at public
hearings regarding proposed legislation.
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Prepared special reports on the acquisitions
of Yankee Stadium and the Public Theater, and on the construction of containerports in Bush Terminal and the Midtown (Javits)
Convention Center, as well as on the history of the Port of New York Authority’s payments to NYC in lieu of taxes.
Penguin Books New York NY 1969
Assistant to the National Sales Manager
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Handled customer inquiries, correspondence
and dealings with the London office.
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Created and implemented a tracking system
for salesman performance.
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Designed and laid out promotional brochures.
WINS Radio New
York NY 1968-1969
Sales Service Assistant, then Sales Service Manager
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Responsible for the training and supervision,
interviewing, hiring and firing of Sales Service Assistant
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Responsible for all advertising contracts
and billing to advertisers.
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Designed and implemented a system for tracking
salesman performance.
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Improved utilization of IBM 410 billing
equipment.
EDUCATION:
Teachers College, Columbia University, Computers in Education, MA 1994
Pace University, Lubin Graduate School of Business, Marketing Management, MBA 1976
Harpur College, Binghamton University, International Law and Political Philosophy, AB
1969
HONORS
AND AWARDS:
= Won NYSED and Microsoft Corporation Multimedia Training for Nonpublic School
Teachers Competition
1995
= Senior Jewish Educator Fellow, Lookstein Center, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv,
Israel 2000
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Pedagogical Techniques for Integrating HyperStudio into the Classroom (working title)
Journals
Review of The Nonprofit Handbook for the Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Spring 1980
“Marketing the Synagogue,” West Side Jewish News, Fall 1969 (reprinted in “Beineinu”,
1970)
Software
Windows:
Countdown to Shabbos (a travel simulation game)
Macintosh:
Preschool special education:
One and Many
Big and Little
Full and Empty
Positional and Directional
Holiday
Games:
Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas, Tu BiShvat,
Purim, Mardi Gras Passover and Easter.
Memory and strategy:
License Plate Game
Shape Maze
Dungeon
Countdown to Shabbos
(a travel simulation game)
Apple II:
Holiday Games:
Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas (Name IT, Match
It, Count It)
Other Curriculum:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Money Skills
Daily Activities
What is a Fish?
What is Food – What is Not?
Animal Matching Games
Conference presentations
“Creating a Technology Plan for a Multi-Campus Special Education School”
NYSC&TE conference in Mahopac, NY: 1994
“Don't Read the Manual: Using General Education and Non-educational software in the Special Education
Classroom"
NYSC&TE conference in South Fallsburg, NY 1997:
Closing The Gap conference in Minneapolis, MN 1997:
SchoolTech Conference , New York, NY March 1998:
“Technology to Facilitate Inclusion - What the Technology Coordinator Should Know”
NYSCATE Conference , Albany NY November 1998
“From Computer Literacy to Computer Competence: Meeting the Needs of All Students With Help From
Technology”
SchoolTech Conference , New York, NY March 1999
“PowerPoint: A Tool for Teaching LEP Students”
City-Wide Mathematics, Science and Technology Conference, York
College, May 1999
“Saving Homework and Class Materials from Hungry Dogs - Posting Your Materials to the Web”
City-Wide Mathematics, Science and Technology Conference, York
College, June 2000
NYSCATE, Syracuse, November 2000
“Addressing Prerequisite Deficits within the Curriculum
to Improve Outcomes for Under-prepared and Nontraditional Students”
NECC Atlanta GA, June 2000
“Combining Computer Literacy and Subject Material in a Graduate Education Course”
Syllabus 2001, Santa
Clara, CA, July 2001:
“WebQuests for Teaching Math and Science”
City-Wide Mathematics, Science and Technology Conference, York
College, May 2002
References:
Available on request
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Member, Ritual Committee, Oceanside Jewish Center
Hebrew Teacher, National Jewish Outreach Program
Life Member, Hadassah
Executive Committee and Board Member, Society for the Advancement of Judaism
Chairman, Ritual Committee, Society for the Advancement of Judaism
Member, Education and Long-term Planning Committees, Society for the Advancement of Judaism
Member and retreat organizer, New York Havurah
Founding Board Member, National Havurah Committee
Founding Member National Jewish Artisans’ Guild (through American Jewish Congress)
Secretary, Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot
Marshal, Soviet Jewry rallies
DOROT volunteer
Co-chairman, First Annual Upper
West Side Jewish Street Fair
Informal teaching: NY Havurah, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, East Midwood Jewish Center,
Oceanside Jewish Center
