Alice Greenwald serves as the Director of Youth and Family Education of Kehillat Israel Religious School. Alice is returning to Los Angeles from Chicago where she has been the Education Director at Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue for nine years. Her commitment to education is evident in her passion for excellence, innovation and creativity in the classroom and outside the walls. The programs developed under her leadership at Shir Hadash have become models for educating children, teens and families.
Alice holds a California K - 8 teaching credential and a Master's degree in Educational Psychology. She has over 30 years of teaching, counseling and administrative experience in Los Angeles, Bishop and Chicago.
Alice is a co-founder and past president of REACH (Reconstructionist Educators' Association of Chicago). She is currently a board member of RENA (Reconstructionist Educators of North America) and an active participant in CAJE (Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education).
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Rabbi Carrie Vogel serves as the Assistant Director of Youth and Family Education. Carrie is responsible for the Jewish Experience, our Madrihim Leadership Program and the Hebrew curriculum, as well as working with Alice to oversee the Auerbach Family Religious School.
Carrie was recently ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. In addition she received a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and a Master of Arts in Jewish Education from HUC-JIR. During Carrie’s time in rabbinic school she worked at a number of synagogues, camps and day schools in the greater Los Angeles area. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Cincinnati.
Carrie and her husband, Brian, are Ohio natives (Go Buckeyes!), but you’ll be hard pressed to find them back there during the winter months.
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