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BJE Main offices: 415.751.6983 (extensions below)
Executive Management
Executive Director - David Waksberg x 104
Associate Director: Jewish Educational Leadership - Renee Ghert-Zand x 152
Associate Director: Finance, Business Systems and Administration - Kerin Lieberman x 103
Associate Director: Community and Teen Initiatives - Toby Rubin x 116
Executive Assistant - Jennifer Eisenbud Sawle x 108
Assistant to Associate Director: Community and Teen Initiatives - Anna Schwartz x 121
Assistant to Associate Director: Jewish Educational Leadership - Robin Smith x 109
Development, Marketing and Public Relations
Development Director - Rose Barlow x 117
Marketing Consultant - Mariana Roytman Schiffner x 132
Development Assistant - Janis Harrer x 112
Finance & Operations
Finance Director - Gary Pope x 115
Network Administrator - Tony Bettini x 144
Front Desk Assistant - Lois Sawyer x 101
Maintenance and Groundskeeper - Jeffrey Beers x 118
Bookkeeper - Michael Vacek x 114
Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Specialist - Ellen Brosbe x 153
Educator Resources & Professional Development
Associate Director: Jewish Educational Leadership - Renee Ghert-Zand x 152
Jewish Professionals Co-op Director - Maya Bernstein x 127
Administrative Assistant, Professional Development - Robin Smith x 109
Educator Support Services Assistant - Svetlana Cherches x 133
Program Coordinator, Educator Support Services - Jenni Mangel x 111
NESS Director - David Monblatt x 128
Financial Aid
Financial Aid Director - Janet Rothman x 107
Financial Aid Assistant - Sean Holahan x 143
Israel Education
Israel Education Initiative Associate Director - Ilan Vitemberg x 149
Israel Education Initiative Assistant - Jennifer Childs x 147
Jewish Community Library 415.567.3327
Director - Jonathan Schwartz x 705
Program Coordinator - Rose Katz x 703
Development Associate for the Jewish Community Library - Elise LaPaix x 713
Reader Services Librarian - Howard Freedman x 706
Book Group Coordinator - Jim Van Buskirk x 712
Front Desk 415.567.3327 x 704
Jewish Family Education Project
Director - Vicky Kelman x 105
Administrative Assistant - Jennifer Childs x 147
Learning Resource Centers for Educators
Battat Educational Resource Center Director - Michael Lederman 415.751.6983 x 135
Peninsula Center Director - Shlomit Blum 650.938.1843
Library Pushcart at JCCSF 415-292-1254
Assistant - Sidney Keith
Mandel Teacher Education Institute
Coordinator - Vicky Kelman x 105
Special Education
Consultant - Flora Kupferman x 122
Teen Services
Associate Director, Community and Teen Initiatves - Toby Rubin x 116
Bay Area Jewish Service Learning Project Director - Jaré Akchin x 113
Jewish Service Learning Project Coordinator - Sara Nesson x 129
Diller Teen Fellows Coordinator - Erica Hymen x 120
Director, Jewish Teen Alliance - Julie Emden x 125
Let's Go: Israel! Education and Recruitment Coordinator - Gabi Lazar x 123
Shalhevet Coordinator - Yaron Lipschitz x 106
Jewish Teen Alliance Assistant - Svetlana Cherches x 133
Peninsula Havurah High Principal - Sheryl Witlin - 650.213.9600 x108
Shalhevet Assistant - Jennifer Childs x 147
Assistant to Teen Programs, Bay Area Jewish Service Learning, and Jewish Prof. Co-op - Lynn Rothman x 148
