Board of Trustees
Dr. Rebecca Schorsch

Rebecca is a product of twelve years of Jewish private schooling, a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts), the Jewish Theological Seminary (Master of Arts, Jewish history), and the University of Chicago (PhD 2002, Jewish Studies). Rebecca spent a year in Hungary doing Jewish communal work as the Ralph Goldman Fellow of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). She is an adult Jewish educator and scholar in residence, having taught in a variety of formal and informal educational settings, such as the Melton School, the New Israel Fund, the Dawn Schuman Institute, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, local synagogues and private study venues. Rebecca teaches Talmud and is the Chair of the Bible Department at the Chicagoland Jewish High School, and teaches in the Masters in Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Spertus College of Jewish Studies. Rebecca co-directed an award winning, nationally aired documentary — Eugene — a story of a boy with Cerebral Palsy who became a Bar Mitzvah, and a family and the community that helped make it happen. Rebecca and her husband Dr. Scott Moses have three children, twins Ada and Nathaniel age 13, and Livia age 9 (Grade Four at CJDS).



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