Professional Staff
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 Alan Rusonik, Executive
Director of the AJE, holds a Master of Arts Degree in Jewish
Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and
an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree from York University
in Toronto.He also studied at The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. Before coming to San Diego he served
as Head of School, Congregation Beth Yeshurun, Houston,
Texas. Rusonik received the Yavneh Award for Distinguished
Community Service by a Jewish Educator and the Irving
L. Samuels Outstanding Teacher Award for Judaic Studies.
He has served as a Board Member of the Jewish Family
Service, Houston and served two terms as a Board Member
of the Jewish Educators' Assembly. He was President
of the Jewish Educators' Council, Houston and led the
Houston delegation on the March of the Living. He is
also a member of CAJE (Coalition for Advancement in
Jewish Education), NATE (National Association of Temple
Educators - Reform) and JEA (Jewish Educators' Assembly
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 Mickie Targum
Principal of the High School of Jewish Studies, has completed all
course work for a PhD in Jewish education from the Jewish Theological
Seminary in NYC. She has a Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary
Studies. Mickie is originally from Israel and lived in New Jersey
before moving to San Diego. She strives to bring the highest level
of education to Jewish teens in San Diego, preparing them to live
in the modern world without neutralizing their Judaism. |
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 Noah Hadas,
the Director of Adult Education, has two Master's
Degrees, one in Astrophysics and one in Judaic Studies. He has been
a doctoral student at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles where
he was awarded the 2001 Bible Studies prize. Among his academic papers
are the provocatively titled "Murder in the Torah" and "Jacob in Haran:
From Trickster to Patriarch". He coordinates the Festival
of Jewish Learning, the Pardes lecture series, the AJE Institute
of Jewish Learning and is the Director of San Diego's Florence
Melton Adult Mini-School. He teaches a graduate level class in
the Melton program. |
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 Marcia Tatz Wollner is the director of School Services, coordinator
of SAJE (Students Advancing Jewish Education) and area coordinator for the
March of the Living. She has served as a madricha for the Hadassah Leadership
Academy and has worked for the UJF in San Diego, and synagogues and Hillel
Foundations throughout the United States. As a graduate of the Baltimore
Institute for Jewish Communal Service, she received her Masters in
Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work
and a Masters in Jewish History from the Baltimore Hebrew College |
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 Miryam
Seid is
the Director of Development and brings to the Agency her experience as
an events coordinator and fund raiser for non-profit organizations in New York.
She graduated from Columbia University with a BA in American History and from
the Jewish Theological Seminary with a major in Modern Jewish Studies. She is
originally from San Diego and attended the San Diego Jewish Academy. |
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