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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: Carol Weber
973-244-9800, x16
carol.weber@pbjc.org

 

Educational 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