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Yourpage.org is a Jewish educational website, created to bring
fun to Jewish learning and promote a positive self image among modern
Jewish children with ever changing, interactive games, puzzles, stories,
crafts, recipes and e-greetings. The activities have varying levels
of challenge, making them suitable for children from the early elementary
grades through middle school.
Yourpage.orgs mission is to promote unity and continuity
in the world Jewish community. Our approach is egalitarian and we embrace
all denominations
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(For a biography, click on the name of each board
member.)
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Nina Woldin has been working in Jewish education,
developing student materials, for 23 years. She has worked as a consultant to the Melton
Research Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1978, and has been a consultant
to the education department of The Jewish Museum for 14 years. Ms. Woldin also works
for the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, and the Jewish Education
Association of MetroWest in New Jersey. She writes for a quarterly publication,
UJA Kids Club News, (Manhattan, Westchester and Long Island) and has had work published
by Grolier, Addison-Wesley, Behrman House, Ktav and Kar-Ben Copies. Nina lives in New
Jersey with her husband John, and three wonderful daughters.
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Deborah Dixler has had the pleasure of collaborating with Nina Woldin for the past 12 years.
As art director of First Teacher Press and Familytlc.com, she has been developing and illustrating
curriculum related materials for young children since 1979. Her art work has been published by
Addison-Wesley, Random House, Time Warner, Macmillan, and Bank Street College of Education.
Deborah holds a masters degree from Bank Street College of Education and has served as a
curriculum materials consultant to many schools and museums including the Museum of American
Folk Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Fraunces Tavern Museum, Bank Street College of Education, the
Jewish Education Association, and the Community Children's Museum. She lives in northern New
Jersey with her husband Alan and two teenagers and is very active in her synagogue.
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Daniel Fondiller
founded, owned and ran a small restaurant chain and wholesale bakery in
New York City for over twenty years. He then changed careers, pursuing
his first interest, computer analysis and programming. Mr. Fondiller worked
for UJB Financial, Blue Cross of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Department
of the Treasury. As a consultant with Automated Concepts, Inc. he helped
keep Volkswagen running as it moved headquarters from New Jersey to Michigan.
He later moved to a management position in data processing at AT &
T until his retirement in 1991.
Mr. Fondiller
has worked as a volunteer counselor at SCORE (Service Corps of Retired
Executives) advising clients how to go into business and be successful.
Daniel Fondiller
lives in NJ with his wife, Gloria. He has two grown daughters and five
wonderful granddaughters.
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Treasure
Cohen is the director of family and community education at the Jewish
Education Association of MetroWest (NJ).
A specialist
in family education, early childhood education, and special education,
Treasure has pioneered innovative approaches to Shabbat and holiday services,
prayer, and Torah for young families, which she has shared at CAJE and
other national venus over the past 20 years. She has published articles
on Jewish family growth and education in Hadassah Magazine, Jewish
Women's Outlook, Jewish Education News, and Lifecycles, Volume
I. She is also a singer/storyteller who, with her husband Rich, transforms
Jewish Bible stories and folklore into entertaining and instructive "puppet
sermons."
She and
Rich live in Maplewood, NJ, and are the parents of one son, three daughters,
and one daughter-in-law.
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Chaim Lauer
has been the Executive Vice President of the Board of Jewish Education
since August 1, 1998. Prior to that he served as the executive director
of the Jewish Education Association of Metro West, New Jersey [95-98]
and the Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington [88-95]. For the
prior eleven years he was associated with that city’s United Jewish Appeal
Federation as its Director of Budget and Planning and its assistant executive
vice president.
He attended
Yeshiva University, graduated with honors from the University of Miami,
received his Masters from Cornell University, was a doctoral candidate
in American Social History at The College of William and Mary, and in
higher education administration at The George Washington University.
Among his
national responsibilities, he is an officer of the Council for Jewish
Education, a member of the executive board of the Council of Central Agencies
Leadership, a member of the board of the Association of Jewish Communal
Service, the International Board of the March of the Living, and has chaired
the inter-agency committee of the Association of Directors of Central
Agencies.
He has taught
at all grade levels and is published author of a variety of educational
materials. Among his articles is “What We Know About Jewish Communal Planning”
in Kelman, What We Know About Jewish Education, 1992.
Mr. Lauer
has served as project director for grants from such organizations as the
Covenant and Jim Joseph Foundations. He also has led travel groups of
all ages to Israel, served as the scholar in residence for Israel missions,
and developed guide materials for them.
His favorite
hobby is sukkah decorating. His wife, Phyllis, and he are parents of four
brilliant and beautiful daughters, and the grandparents of four even more
brilliant and beautiful grandchildren
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Russell
F. Robinson has spent most of his life dedicated to the Jewish people
and its causes. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of Jewish
National Fund (JNF), a position he assumed in 1997 when he was selected
at 42 as the youngest CEO in its almost 100 year history.
Prior to
joining JNF, Mr. Robinson was the Associate Vice President of fundraising
for the United Jewish Appeal. He spent 17 years working on its behalf.
It was in
Mr. Robinson's hometown of El Paso, Texas that he first got interested
in the Jewish professional world. It is there that he joined the El Paso
Jewish Community Center Federation as program director.
Today, under
Mr. Robinson's professional leadership JNF has been instrumental in developing
successful programs for Israel's water conservation, community development
and environmental work, all of which play a significant part in the Middle
East peace process and American Jewry's connection to the Land and People
of Israel.
Robinson
traces his American family heritage as far back as the 1700's, where his
was the first Jewish family to settle in Virginia. Today he resides in
New Jersey with his wife Marci and two children, Sam and Alyssa.
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