Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Doron Rubin, Schechter educator par excellence, teaches a Midreshet Schechter community Bet Midrash in Ofakim, advises two MA Leadership programs, and most recently, has joined the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary for full-time studies
When asked his age, Doron Rubin quips: “25 years plus 26 years experience” – summing up a lifetime of community activism, commitment to Conservative Judaism and a love of learning. Doron grew up in Haifa in a secular Zionist home, but from the time of his Bar Mitzvah at Kehillat Moriah, he knew where he was going. A NOAM youth group leader, he joined the army with other NOAM recruits; married an SRS-ordained rabbi, Judit; and then traveled to England as a NOAM emissary. Since then, he has excelled at non-profit management, working for years with Hillel and the Jewish Agency on Israel-Diaspora projects. Recently, he founded a business – Tzmicha – with a twist: to “grow” Jewish education for older students.
Wryly, Doron asserts that “education is wasted on the young.” Not that he discounts the importance of reaching younger populations, but “many important decisions are happening later in our lives, especially in the 21st century when professions and parenting are postponed well into the 30s.” The Jewish world in which he works “is very complicated, where a huge gap exists between ideology and reality, between values practiced and preached. You have to be mature to incorporate all these contradictions into a world view,” he explains.
Desiring to augment his Jewish knowledge, Doron enrolled in SRS’s rabbinic program. As an intern this year at Ashkelon’s Kehillat Netzach Yisrael, Rubin, together with Rabbi Gustavo Surazski, created a very successful program called “Grandma’s Tales” in response to the pandemic. Each week, grandmothers with children at the five TALI preschools in Ashkelon read stories to them via Zoom, creating special bonds and a sense of self worth on both sides.
Doron wears many caps at Schechter. He coordinates the Maccabee MA program for Community Leadership and helped establish an MA program for residents of Ofakim and the Negev, where he worked closely with the Jewish Federation of MetroWest, NJ. In addition, he runs a Schechter Bet Midrash in the town that meets twice a month with 25-30 residents participating. “It’s a great group which continued to be active throughout Corona,” he says.
“Give a job to a busy man,” goes the adage and Doron Rubin fits the bill. In addition to his Schechter work and study, he has five children aged 24 to 9, and he volunteers on boards of a number of non-profits, including the TALI Education Fund. “I’m thrilled that Schechter has given me the opportunity and the platform to work with so many diverse communities – always being challenged by new situations where you can renew others and be renewed yourself.”
