Wednesday, August 20, 1:30-8:00pm
Death is inevitable, yet American culture denies its reality. Join The Jewish Education Project on Wednesday, August 20, 1:30-8:00pm to see Death Becomes Her, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy based on the classic 1992 film. Together, we’ll explore the kinds of meaningful Jewish conversations around death we can bring to our learners.
“If you want perfection,” you’ll join us for this Broadway show experience!
This Day of Learning is for educators and engagement professionals who work with youth or teens on Long Island, in NYC, and in Westchester in synagogues, JCCs, youth serving movements, after-school programs, independent models, and more.
This Day of Learning will include the Broadway show, post-show programming and discussion, and a kosher dinner.
Cost: $60 (paid upon acceptance)
Submission of an application does not signify acceptance. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis and acceptances will begin in mid-July.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to apply.
Questions? Please contact Tova Perlow.
Loen Amer
Loen Amer has been an experiential Jewish educator working with teens since she was one herself! She has served at Temple Israel of Great Neck as the Director of Teen and Community Engagement, and at Bet Torah in Mt Kisco–first as their Director of Youth Engagement, and then as their Director of Experiential Learning for Children and Teens. Loen has also worked for Ramah Israel, the Hillel at Hofstra University, Woodbury Jewish Center, and Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn Heights.
Loen has a voracious love for lifelong Jewish learning, and most recently studied Torah le’shmah, Torah for its own sake, at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. She lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side and enjoys baking and reading.
Rabbi David Levy
Rabbi David E. Levy is the Director, Field Consultation at The Jewish Education Project. His primary work focuses on supporting congregational educators across the country to explore the big questions in Jewish Education, and how they are particularly positioned to respond to them. Prior to The Jewish Education Project, David worked at Westchester Reform Temple for a decade, where he served as the Associate Rabbi and the Director of the Jewish Learning Lab. He also has extensive experience working with Jewish camps, and as a consultant. David received Rabbinic ordination and a Masters in Religious Education from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems from Drexel University.
Tova Perlow
Tova Perlow is originally from the greater Seattle area and attended the University of Washington where she double majored in Comparative Religion and Jewish Studies. She then continued her education at Ben Gurion University of the Negev where she pursued her Masters in Middle East Studies and fell in love with studying both Hebrew and Arabic. After graduation, she enrolled in various Arabic language programs including UCLA summer intensive, ALIF Arabic School in Fez, Morocco, and the Middlebury Summer Language Schools. Upon returning to the U.S., Tova moved to Washington, DC where she, most memorably, worked for the Washington Nationals baseball team. In 2010, Tova moved to NYC where she worked in several positions at the Union for Reform Judaism and as a Program Coordinator at The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. An avid traveler, Tova took time off in 2017-18 to backpack around the globe and strives to always have future travel plans in motion.
