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| The Shoresh Board of Directors includes the school's founders and other community members and professionals: |
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and named by The Financial Times as the most influential commentator in America, Charles Krauthammer is a founding board member of Shoresh Hebrew High School, president of The Krauthammer Foundation and chairman of Pro Musica Hebraica, an organization dedicated to the recovery and performance of lost classical Jewish music. Mr. Krauthammer writes a syndicated column for The Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. He also writes a monthly essay for TIME magazine, is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, and is a weekly panelist on Inside Washington and a contributor to FOX News. |
| Neal J. Meiselman, Esquire is a founding director of Shoresh Hebrew High School. An experienced family lawyer and mediator, Mr. Meiselman has practiced law in Maryland since 1978 and is the founding partner of Meiselman & Helfant, LLC, in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Meiselman's law firm earned the Montgomery County Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award four times from 1993 to 2001. His involvement in Jewish education includes stints as a teacher, youth director, school board member, and congregation board member. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland (B.A. 1975) and Boston University Law School (J.D. 1978). |
| Jay E. Slater, M.D., is a founding director of Shoresh Hebrew High School. A board-certified pediatrician and allergist-immunologist, Dr. Slater is Deputy Director of the FDA's Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products. Dr. Slater received his A.B. and M.D. from Harvard, and trained at Babies Hospital in New York and NIH. His formal Jewish education was at Yeshiva of Central Queens, Brandeis Day School, and Prozdor Hebrew High School, with informal and congregational studies in the decades since. |
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| Joanie Smeltz has been with Ohr Kodesh Congregation since 1991. She is the Early Childhood Center and Preschool Director, and the Administrator for Shoresh. She received a B.S. in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from West Chester State College and worked in a number of educational and youth positions at the Jewish Community Center of Harrisburg, PA. |
| Rabbi Marc Israel is the Rabbi/Educator of Ohr Kodesh Congregation. Rabbi Israel oversees and integrates the programs and curricula for the religious schools, youth, and continuing education opportunities for adults. Previously, Rabbi Israel served as Director of the Union for Reform Judaism Kesher College Department, where he built partnerships between the Reform Movement and Hillel and assisted congregations in preparing and maintaining relationships with students entering college and university life. Rabbi Israel has also served as the Director of Congregational Relations at the Religious Action Center. Rabbi Israel was ordained by HUC-JIR in 1998 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992. |
| Tamara Halle, Ph.D. is a Developmental Psychologist who works for Child Trends, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization in Washington, DC. Dr. Halle conducts research and evaluation projects focused on the quality of early care and education settings and curricula, the professional development of the early childhood workforce, and children's school readiness and the transition to formal schooling. Dr. Halle currently serves on the Ohr Kodesh CE21 Task Force. |
| Sheila Jelen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Jelen's field of specialization is modern Jewish literature. She teaches courses on American Jewish Literature, The Literature of the Holocaust, Modern Hebrew Literature, Gender and Jewish Literaure, as well as an Introduction to Jewish Literature. She is the author of Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007). |
| Rabbi Lyle Fishman has been the spiritual leader of Ohr Kodesh since 1984. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Yale University, Rabbi Fishman was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). He taught at JTS and the Herzl Institute. He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of America. In addition to serving the members of Ohr Kodesh, Rabbi Fishman serves as a board member of the Greater Washington United Jewish Communities and helped to create the Washington Chevra Chapter to foster a better interchange of ideas among community rabbis. He is a member of the National Rabbinic Cabinet of UJA and a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Board of Rabbis. |
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