Jane Fantelis the Acting Director of the Agency for Jewish Education as of February, 2010.  For over 30 years, Jane has been a consultant for nonprofits, serving primarily Jewish agencies, synagogues and institutions.  She has led successful capital, annual and endowment campaigns.  Jane has served on the boards of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus; JYPride; Temple Solel; the San Diego Jewish Academy; the Jewish Women’s Foundation of San Diego; and the Agency for Jewish Education.  She is a member of Association of Jewish Community Organization Professionals, and received her B.A. from Ohio University and an honorary doctorate in Jewish Communal Service from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Marcia Tatz Wollner is the director of school services and programs. She also administers Rosh Hodesh: It’s A Girl Thing , March of the Living, Tuition Incentive Program and portions of Sharei Limmud: Gateways to Jewish Learning Through Affordability. Marcia received her MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, MA from the Baltimore Hebrew College and has a certificate in Jewish Communal Service.

Noah Hadas has been the Director of Community Adult Education at the Agency for Jewish Education since 2001. He created and coordinates MAKOR, the Community Adult Jewish Education Catalogue, ULPAN San Diego, and the Coronado Lecture Series. He is also the Director of San Diego’s Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in which he also teaches classes on Jewish philosophy and history. Prior to coming to San Diego, Noah received two Master’s Degrees, one in Astrophysics, and one in Judaic Studies. He was awarded the 2001 Bible Studies Prize while a doctoral student at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.

Mickie Targum was born in Israel and came to the United States with her parents in 1956. She attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush and received her BA in Sociology from Brooklyn College. After working for the NYC’s Department of Welfare’s Bureau of Child Welfare for 6 years, she became a stay-at-home mom to her two sons and an active volunteer for the National Council of Jewish Women in N.J. In 1978 she began her career as a Jewish educator as a Hebrew teacher in one of her community’s congregational schools. As her passion for the field grew, she sought to enhance her own Jewish education by enrolling in the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC where she earned her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Jewish Education and where she completed her course load for a PhD in Jewish Education (a dream that has been put on hold due to the demands of her current position as the Director of the High School of Jewish Education). She is a graduate of the JTS’ Jewish Day School Leadership Institute, an NEA Fellow, and a Member-At-Large of NAACHHS (North America Association Of Community Hebrew High Schools) This year marks her 9th year as the Director of HSJS.