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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: 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