Our Principal and Faculty
Jack Rubel, Educational Director:
Mr. Rubel is an experienced educator with over 30 years experience in the public school system. His experience as an award winning NYC public school educator, principal of Central Hebrew High School and Jewish educator at Oceanside and Baldwin Jewish Center, Temple Emanuel of New Hyde Park and Temple Judea has provided him with a wonderful understanding of children from all walks of life and levels of Jewish observance. Mr. Rubel earned both a B.S. in Business Management from New York University as well as an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from New York University. Under his leadership since 1997 we are able to achieve our goal of developing a sense of Jewish pride in each child.
Jeff Beris, Music Teacher and Bar/Bat Mitzvah Instructor:
Mr. Beris has been the music director at Ohav Sholom for the past 8 years, following more than 20 years teaching in L.I. Hebrew schools and the Hillel Country Day School. He has also been our Bar/Bat Mitzvah instructor for the past 10 years, teaching many children from Ohav as well as neighboring synagogues to successfully chant their Torah and Haftorah portions. As an active member of Ohav Sholom, Mr. Beris is involved in many of our youth porgrams during Sabbath Services and synagogue activities, such as Junior Congregation, Youth Shabbat, afternoon Oneg Shabbat, Family Bingo Night and Succah Happening.
Meryl K. Katz:
Mrs. Katz loves teaching and working with Jewish children. She teaches at Congregation Ohav Sholom for the young children on Sundays. She also teaches at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation during the week and runs the Jr. Congregation of the South Baldwin Jewish Center.
Iris Bieler:
Mrs. Bieler, an experienced nursery school teacher as well as Hebrew school teacher, loves working with young children. She also teaches at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation during the week.
Lisa Gelernter:
Mrs. Gelernter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She served in the Israeli army for two years, and attended Wingate University in Israel. She then worked with mute, blind, and other children with disabilities for two years. She came to the USA in 1984 and worked in the J.C.C of West Hempstead for ten years, running a successful “Early-Late” child care club for working mothers. On the faculty of the Ohav Sholom Hebrew School since 1994, she instills a love of Israel in the students. Her favorite projects include pen pal writing between American and Israeli children and a clothing and toy drive to donate to orphan homes in Israel. She loves children and has a unique way of teaching Hebrew, with a smile and love.
Rachel Rosenbloom:
Mrs. Rosenbloom was born in Bahrain, a small island in the Persian Gulf, about 50 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia where there was a small Jewish Community. She immigrated to Israel with her family shortly after the Six-Day War in Israel due to concerns about possible anti-Jewish violence on the island. She studied at the Teacher’s Institute in Tel Aviv (Seminar Hakibbutzim) and worked in Tel Aviv before moving the United States in 1988. She has worked in the field of education since moving to the U.S., first at the Hebrew Education Society in Brooklyn and then at the Little Village School in Bellmore. She married in Israel and has two daughters.
Esther Haimson:
Mrs. Haimson started teaching at Ohav Sholom under the direction of Mel Isaacs in the 1970s. She feels she is challenged and educated along with the induction of every new student in the school.
Debby Grosberg:
Mrs. Grosberg joined the faculty of Ohav Sholom in 1992. She has taught various grades for Ohav as well as at H.A.N.C., Har Torah, and Gamla, a high school for girls at high risk. She is currently involved in early intervention. Her children and grandchildren are a constant source of joy and happiness. She derives great pleasure from her association with this wonderful Hebrew School and its precious children.
For additional biographies and further information about our staff and faculty please visit the school office
Mr. Rubel is an experienced educator with over 30 years experience in the public school system. His experience as an award winning NYC public school educator, principal of Central Hebrew High School and Jewish educator at Oceanside and Baldwin Jewish Center, Temple Emanuel of New Hyde Park and Temple Judea has provided him with a wonderful understanding of children from all walks of life and levels of Jewish observance. Mr. Rubel earned both a B.S. in Business Management from New York University as well as an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from New York University. Under his leadership since 1997 we are able to achieve our goal of developing a sense of Jewish pride in each child.
Jeff Beris, Music Teacher and Bar/Bat Mitzvah Instructor:
Mr. Beris has been the music director at Ohav Sholom for the past 8 years, following more than 20 years teaching in L.I. Hebrew schools and the Hillel Country Day School. He has also been our Bar/Bat Mitzvah instructor for the past 10 years, teaching many children from Ohav as well as neighboring synagogues to successfully chant their Torah and Haftorah portions. As an active member of Ohav Sholom, Mr. Beris is involved in many of our youth porgrams during Sabbath Services and synagogue activities, such as Junior Congregation, Youth Shabbat, afternoon Oneg Shabbat, Family Bingo Night and Succah Happening.
Meryl K. Katz:
Mrs. Katz loves teaching and working with Jewish children. She teaches at Congregation Ohav Sholom for the young children on Sundays. She also teaches at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation during the week and runs the Jr. Congregation of the South Baldwin Jewish Center.
Iris Bieler:
Mrs. Bieler, an experienced nursery school teacher as well as Hebrew school teacher, loves working with young children. She also teaches at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation during the week.
Lisa Gelernter:
Mrs. Gelernter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She served in the Israeli army for two years, and attended Wingate University in Israel. She then worked with mute, blind, and other children with disabilities for two years. She came to the USA in 1984 and worked in the J.C.C of West Hempstead for ten years, running a successful “Early-Late” child care club for working mothers. On the faculty of the Ohav Sholom Hebrew School since 1994, she instills a love of Israel in the students. Her favorite projects include pen pal writing between American and Israeli children and a clothing and toy drive to donate to orphan homes in Israel. She loves children and has a unique way of teaching Hebrew, with a smile and love.
Rachel Rosenbloom:
Mrs. Rosenbloom was born in Bahrain, a small island in the Persian Gulf, about 50 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia where there was a small Jewish Community. She immigrated to Israel with her family shortly after the Six-Day War in Israel due to concerns about possible anti-Jewish violence on the island. She studied at the Teacher’s Institute in Tel Aviv (Seminar Hakibbutzim) and worked in Tel Aviv before moving the United States in 1988. She has worked in the field of education since moving to the U.S., first at the Hebrew Education Society in Brooklyn and then at the Little Village School in Bellmore. She married in Israel and has two daughters.
Esther Haimson:
Mrs. Haimson started teaching at Ohav Sholom under the direction of Mel Isaacs in the 1970s. She feels she is challenged and educated along with the induction of every new student in the school.
Debby Grosberg:
Mrs. Grosberg joined the faculty of Ohav Sholom in 1992. She has taught various grades for Ohav as well as at H.A.N.C., Har Torah, and Gamla, a high school for girls at high risk. She is currently involved in early intervention. Her children and grandchildren are a constant source of joy and happiness. She derives great pleasure from her association with this wonderful Hebrew School and its precious children.
For additional biographies and further information about our staff and faculty please visit the school office
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