Staff and Board
Staff and Board
Education Director — Zehava Dahan educator@orshalom.org
Zehava Dehan has worked as a Jewish educator in the Bay Area for 25 years, both as a classroom teacher and as an administrator. “For me," she says, "the most exciting aspect of working in a congregational school is the creation of a warm environment through a wide partnership of teachers, parents, and students." Her goal is to use that partnership to develop inquisitive, engaged, caring and happy children who will become lifelong learners and compassionate human beings. This, she says, is "essential and central to the mission and vision of Or Shalom.”
Zehava has worked as department head of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco and as a preschool teacher, as well as a classroom teacher to first- through eighth-graders.
"I learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my pupils." (Yehuda haNasi, in Ta’anit 7a)
Administrator — Lillian Markind admin@orshalom.org
Originally from the Philadelphia area, Lillian has lived in a variety of places including Los Angeles, Pittsburgh PA, Manhattan, San Francisco, and rural Wisconsin. She returned to the Bay Area in 2014 and landed in Brisbane, just a few miles down the road. Formerly in biotech, she took many years off from the professional workforce and became heavily involved in school volunteering, teaching Zumba, and becoming a substitute teacher. She successfully ran for public office in 2016 to be a Trustee of the Brisbane School District in which she is currently the President of the Board for the second year.
She shares her home with her husband Mike Lelivelt, who works in Biotech, and Nora, her step-daughter, who goes to UC Davis. Together they have David, a Junior in high school and Naomi, entering high school this year!
Board of Directors
The Board meets monthly to make the decisions that guide our community. The Executive Committee is comprised of the President, Vice President, Immediate Past President, Secretary, and Treasurer. To place an item on the Board's agenda, contact a member of the Executive Committee.
Or Shalom Board of Directors
FY21, July 1, 2020– June 30, 2021
Officers (Executive Committee)
Janet Jacobs,President
Judy Olasov, Past President
Seraph White, Acting Treasurer & Fund Development Chair
Shelley Levine, Secretary
Jonathan Denholtz, EC Member & At Large
Members
Paul Axelrod, Communications Committee Chair
Meryl Bennan, Membership Committee Chair
Max Bernstein, Member At Large
Jonathan Denholtz, EC Member & At Large
Stacey Leyton, Personnel Committee Chair
Rachelle Resnick, Chesed Committee Chair
Joel Rubinstein, Minhag Committee Representative
Matt Rudoff, Religious School Committee Chair
Angelique von Halle, Member At Large
Staff Attending Board Meetings
Rabbi Katie Mizrahi
Lillian Markind, Administrator
Mon, January 18 2021
5 Shevat 5781
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