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Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York One East Sixty-fifth Street
From 2005-2007, Mr. Kaiserman was a Mandel Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, Israel, where his area of focus was on leadership and educational change in congregational settings. Immediately prior, Mr. Kaiserman served as Director of Education of Central Synagogue in New York City. Previously he was a classroom teacher and the media, library, and technology coordinator at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. Earlier career highlights include serving as the Director of Education of the Free Synagogue of Westchester in Mount Vernon, New York and the Program Director for JCC Camp Sabra in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. Mr. Kaiserman holds a Master of Arts in Jewish Education from the Davidson School of Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He received the title of R.J.E. (Reform Jewish Educator) from the Reform Movement in 2003. Mr. Kaiserman has lectured internationally on topics ranging from curriculum development and classroom management to environmental education and teaching through music. He has led workshops and training sessions for a host of organizations, including Hebrew Union College, the Union for Reform Judaism, JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North America), North American Temple Educators (NATE), and the Board of Jewish Education of Greater NY. In 2007, he chaired the session on the “Relationship Between Education and Building Intentional Communities” for the eleventh Quadrennial Conference of the World Council of Jewish Communal Service (WCJCS) and was an invited presenter for the 2007 Conference of Limmud NY: Jewish Learning Without Limits. His article “Synagogue Schools and Congregational Agendas” appeared in the January 2007 issue of Sh’ma: An Online Journal of Jewish Responsibility, and his article “Rethinking the Jewish Cultural Renaissance,” co-authored with Stephen Hazan Arnoff, appeared in its November 2006 issue. In June of 2006, Mr. Kaiserman presented the paper “The Classroom as the ‘Hub’ of School Community” for the Melton Centre conference “Reframing Jewish Day School Education Worldwide” at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Mr. Kaiserman was a founding staff member of the TEVA Learning Center for Jewish Environmental Education, on whose advisory board he served for ten years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and the Education Advisory Board for the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. He has previously served on the Education Advisory Board of the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan, the student admissions committee for Hebrew Union College (HUC-JIR), the Professional Development Task Force of the National Association of Temple Educators (NATE), and the Steering Committees for Hazon: The New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride and Kol Zimrah: Meaningful Prayer through Music. Mr. Kaiserman is a native New Yorker and lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Elizabeth Freirich, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Topics on which qualified to speak:
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Saul Kaiserman
