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Miami, Florida

Welcome to the information page of the Miami, Florida Florence Melton Adult Mini-School

 

Director                               

Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar

 

Administrative Director

Joel M. Greenberg

Administrative Coordinator

Shoshanah Bloom

Sponsoring Agency
The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education
4200 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33137

Contact
Tel: 305-576-4030 ext. 122 (Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar)
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el: 305-576-4030 ext. 121 (Joel Greenberg)
Tel: 305-576-4030 ext. 121 (Shoshanah Bloom)
Fax: 305-576-0307
Email: miami@fmams.org.il

About the Directors
Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar did her undergraduate work in Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, where she also worked as program director at the University of Michigan Hillel. She received her Master’s degree in Hebrew Literature and ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Efrat served as assistant rabbi at Temple Solel in Hollywood for one year and since then she has worked at the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education, where she presently is the Director of Adult Learning and Growth.

Joel has a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Bar Ilan University in Israel. He has significant sales, marketing, technology and administrative experience having worked as Acquisitions Manager for United Bank Card in Miami Beach, Registrar for the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy in Miami Beach, Technology Consultant for TrialGraphix in Miramar FL, and Senior Product Consultant with LivePerson Inc. in Ra’anana, Israel. Joel and his wife Ariella, who is getting her doctorate at the University of Miami in Educational Administration, have a son, Amichai, who is currently in pre-school.

Shoshanah has her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Education from Towson State University in Maryland and served as an associate professor in Hagerstown Community College for a number of years. Most recently she's served as director of education at Sunrise Jewish Center Religious School in Sunrise, Florida, the Volunteer Coordinator in a Rehabilitation Hospital in Vero Beach, and a part-time teacher at the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy in Miami Beach. Best of all, she herself is a graduate of the Melton School through the Broward County site.


Class Schedule

Subject Day Location
Year I

Tuesday

Temple Beth Sholom

Year l Tuesday Temple Menorah
Year l Wednesday Temple Sinai of North Dade
Year l Wenesday Beth David Congregation
Year l Thursday Bet Shira Congregation
Year ll Wenesday, Thursday Temple Sinai of North Dade
Year ll Thursday Bet Shira Congregation
Year ll Thursday The Point
Year ll Thursday FDRN
Grad

Monday

MB JCC

Grad

Tuesday

Temple Judea

Grad Tuesday Temple Beth Sholom
Grad

Wednesday, Thursday

Temple Sinai of North Dade

Grad

Thursday

Bet Shira Congregation

Grad

Thursday

DTRN

Grad

Friday

FDRN

Grad Friday MAR JCC

 

Faculty List

Faculty Course
David Auerbach Grad
Paul Azaroff Purposes, Dramas, Grad

Rabbi Haskell Bernat

Grad
Rabbi Micah Caplan Ethics, Grad

Marsha B. Cohen

Rhythms, Dramas, Grad
Rabbi Hector Epelbaum Purposes, Dramas
Rabbi Jeffrey Falick Grad
Rabbi Marc Labowitz Grad
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian Grad
Rabbi Akiva Mann Grad
Rabbi Moshe Rothchild Ethics, Rhythms, Grad
Dr. Rhea Schwartzberg Rhythms, Ethics
Prof. Danielle Sharon Purposes, Grad
Rabbi Yossi Smierc Rhythms, Ethics
Norma Uziel Grad
Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar Ethics, Grad
Rabbi Ira Bedzow Ethics
Dr Abraham Gittelson Dramas
Rabbi Elias Hochner Rhythms
Dr Erik Larson Grad
Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger Purposes

 

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