Outstanding teachers are the keystones of Shoresh's
success. Shoresh teachers represent the range of
Jewish practice and experience in the Washington
Jewish community:
Saul Oresky is a veteran Shoresh teacher, technical
editor and Reconstructionist rabbinical student. Mr.
Oresky has been a teacher and Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutor for
several supplementary schools in the Washington area
for nearly 30 years. A student at the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College, he works for the Naval Research
Laboratory as a technical writer/editor. He teaches
Tanach, History and Rabbinics.
Maryana Harouni joined Shoresh after serving as Education Coordinator at
Adas Israel’s Melvin Gelman Religious school.  Born in Iran, Ms. Harouni
immigrated to Israel, where she attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  
Ms. Harouni went on to serve as Personal Assistant to the Chairman of the
Immigration and Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency and World
Zionist Organization, and later as Assistant Director of Hayim Greenberg
Hebrew College in Jerusalem.  After coming to the United States, Ms. Harouni
attended the University of Massachusetts and George Washington University
while teaching in religious  schools.  Ms. Harouni teaches Tanach.
Rabbi David L. Abramson has served congregations in Arizona, Ohio,
Massachusetts, and Minnesota.  Rabbi Abramson has taught Judaic Studies,
Bible and Rabbinics at Jewish day schools in  Massachusetts and  
Minnesota; and, for many summers, taught Judaica at Camp Ramah in
Wisconsin.  Rabbi Abramson currently serves as Adjunct Rabbi at
Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland.  In addition, he is a Chaplain
Intern at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington.  Rabbi Abramson
received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Maryland and an M.A. and
Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Rachel Braun served on the Shoresh Board for several years before joining
the faculty. A long-time Camp Ramah staffer, Mrs. Braun served as Judaics
instructor and Rosh Beit Midrash at Ramah in Palmer, Massachusetts, and
teaches high school mathematics in Washington, DC.  Mrs. Braun is a
Shabbat and High Holiday service leader at the Fabrangen havurah in
Washington, DC, and is an exhibited Judaic embroidress. Mrs. Braun teaches
Siddur.
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