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Staff
Clergy
- Professional
- Support
Professional
Staff:
973-244-9800, x11
execdir@pbjc.org
Executive Director: Bob Kanarick
 An executive director is the primary contact between the shul and its congregants, clergy, lay leadership, and service providers. As the Executive Director, Bob Kanarick manages PBJC's daily business.
Bob assists committees
in planning and executing their activities and supervises all administrative activities. As Executive Director, Bob
helps to prepare the budget and supervise its' implementation. With individual committees,
Bob oversees purchasing. In coordination with the Executive Board, Bob
develops and implements strategies, sustains PBJC's operations, and
develops activities including annual and capital campaigns, major gifts cultivation, and planned giving efforts. He
selects and supervises office and maintenance personnel. He
is also responsible for maintaining the synagogue calendar
and providing for its' implementation. Bob also assists synagogue-affiliated groups and
committees to plan and implement their decisions.
Before joining
the Pine Brook Jewish Center Bob was the Executive Director at Temple Shalom, a 520-family congregation in
Succasunna, for more than 11 years.
A Jewish communal leader most of his adult life, he has been involved with United Jewish Communities of
MetroWest, served as the NATA delegate to the New Jersey/West Hudson Valley Regional Council of the URJ, and served over eight years on the PBJC Board including a two-year term as president from 1983-1985.
Nursery School Director:
Roberta Ginsberg
973-244-9800, x16
preschooldirector@pbjc.org
After being the lead
teacher for two years in our 3’s program, in 2002,
Roberta Ginsberg
was appointed to the position of Preschool
Director of the Pine Brook Jewish Center Nursery
School. One characteristic that Roberta is quite
proud of is her personal connection with each and
every one of her preschoolers. She
absolutely loves working with young children and
especially enjoys greeting every student with a
smile each morning when they are dropped off for
school!
Originally from
Spring
Valley,
New York,
Roberta attended Southern Connecticut State
University in
New Haven,
Connecticut,
where she majored in Elementary Education, with a
concentration in nursery school through 6th grade.
After graduation, she became a member of the staff
of the Solomon Schechter
School of Westchester, where she taught second,
third and fourth grade secular studies for nine
years, followed by an additional year at the
Solomon Schechter
School of Bergen County. During her
ten years at Schechter,
Roberta also earned a Masters of Professional
Studies from
Manhattanville
College,
with a concentration in Learning Disabilities.
Roberta’s responsibilities include overseeing the
nursery school, our Mommy & Me programs, as well
as our seven week summer program, Camp
Yeladim
Tovim. Roberta is an
active member of both the Early Childhood
Director’s Network of
MetroWest, as well as the Community of
Practice, both of which are overseen by the
Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life.
Roberta resides in
Montville
Township,
where she lives with her husband Larry and
children Scott and Kimberly.
Religious School
Director:
Mary Sheydwasser
973-244-9800, x18
marys@pbjc.org
Pine Brook Jewish Center is extremely pleased to
welcome Mrs. Mary Sheydwasser as the new Religious
School Director. She comes with many years of
experience both as a Religious School Director
where she achieved “Framework for
Excellence” and teacher at Shomrei Torah in Wayne.
Born in Canada, Mrs. Sheydwasser grew up in an
Orthodox environment and attended Hebrew day
school. The second of two daughters born of
parents that survived the Holocaust, she is
forever indebted to them for teaching her
everything that they could about being Jewish and
the importance of continuing Jewish education and
traditions.
Since immigrating to the United States,
she has continued her professional development by
taking courses at the Conservative Yeshiva in
Jerusalem, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New
York and the University of Judaism in Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Sheydwasser comes to PBJC with the highest
recommendation as a wonderful and creative leader.
She always has the children’s best interest at
heart. Her goal for the school year is for every
student to be proud of his/her Jewish identity and
to feel comfortable walking into the Synagogue.”
She is very
accessible and can be reached at (973) 244-9800 x
18
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