Instructors
San Francisco
Rabbi Eve Ben-Ora
Rabbi Eve Ben-Ora is the Jewish Educator at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Previously, she served as the Director of Jewish Education at the Houston Jewish Community Center. During that time, she was the Director of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School as well as one of the teachers. In 1999 she was named FMAMS Distinguished Director. Rabbi Ben-Ora has served as Associate Rabbi and Director of Education and Programs at Congregation Emanuel in Denver, Colorado. She has been the President of the Jewish Educators Council and The Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council in Denver. Rabbi Ben-Ora was ordained at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. She has a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and a Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband, Rabbi Avi Schulman, and they have three children.
Palo Alto
Lisa Langer
Lisa Langer, RJE is currently an Education Specialist with the Union for Reform Judaism and an independent Jewish education consultant.Lisa served as a Regional Educator for the Union for Reform Judaism in the Pacific Central West Region for four years. She has also served as an educator on the professional team of Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, CA from 1994-2000, during which time she was the founding director of Shabbaton (a family school,) countless additional family education programs, and served as a staff member for senior member programming, membership and the social action committees. She continues to teach adult education classes at the synagogue. Lisa lives in Menlo Park, California with her husband, Dan K. Siegel and their young sons, Jacob and Ben.