Meet Our Faculty 2020-2021 תשפ”א Menaheles Mrs. Chaya L. Eidelman President Mr. A. Joseph Stern Vaad HaChinuch Rabbi Aba Brudny Rabbi Yechiel Drillman Rabbi Yaakov Luban 1131 Raritan Avenue, Highland Park NJ 08904 [email protected] 732.985.5646 BRAINSTORM OUR QUESTIONS ANSWERS PRIORITIZE STUDY FUN TIPS LEARN WRITE TEST ADVISE TIME QUIZ WORKSTUDENTREVIEW SUPPORT COUNSEL THINKTRANSLATE DEVELOP TECHNIQUE SKILLS GOALS SUCCESS PREPARE PRACTICE MANAGE TEAM REENAS BAIS YAAKOV מחנכת יהדות חומש Mrs. Sara Backenroth Mrs. Shana Broad Chumash, Yahadus, Mechaneches Ivrit Mrs. Backenroth holds teaching degrees from both Mrs. Broad, a graduate of Machon Raaya Seminary to עברית Bnos Chava Teaching Seminary and Bais Yaakov and a native Hebrew speaker, teaches of Montreal Teachers’ Training College. Her book, our tenth and eleventh grades. Before joining InsideOut, was published by Feldheim in 2015, and RBY, Mrs. Broad taught at JFS, Yeshiva of Greater addresses topics in self-awareness and personal Washington, Yeshiva Ketana of Lakewood and curriculum that Ilan High School. With over a decade of teaching יהדות development based on the she designed for the students of Reenas Bais experience, Mrs. Broad brings much passion to her Yaakov. In her capacity as teacher and special teaching and adds both breadth and depth to programs coordinator, Mrs. Backenroth has students’ language skills. designed close to 100 innovative workshops, and she consults with high schools about programming for their yemei iyun, shabbatons and other school events. מחנכת תהלים נביא נביא Mrs. Dubbie Busel Mrs. Chavi Busel Navi, Yearbook Navi, Tehillim, Mechaneches Mrs. Busel graduated from BJJ-Machon Sara Mrs. Busel graduated from BJJ-Machon Sara Schneirer L’Moros with certification to teach Judaic Schneirer L’Moros with teacher’s certification. and Over the past twenty years she has taught באור תפלה, נביא Studies. Mrs. Busel, has taught ,subjects in various Lakewood schools לימודי קודש -Computer Graphics at Reenas, and is also our in house creative and technical leader. She designs including Bais Kaila and Oros Bais Yaakov. Her and produces almost all Reenas productions warm personality and flexible nature led her to be in Lakewood. She continues מחנכת and events, maintains our computer systems and chosen as a and מחנכת oversees our G.O. and Mishmeres committees. Mrs. that role in Reenas as our 12th grade תהילם teacher. Additionally, Mrs. Busel teaches נביא Busel’s talents are in demand outside of Reenas as well; she produces magazines, brochures, to the 10th grade. Mrs. Busel’s teaching talents yearbooks and videos for camps and schools and wisdom benefit Reenas students both in and throughout the tri-state area. out of the classroom. פרקי חומש נביא אבות Mrs. Chaya Sorah Cohen Mrs. Goldie Cohen Pirkei Avos, Computers, Navi Chumash Mrs. Cohen is a graduate of both Reenas Bais Mrs. Cohen graduated from BJJ- Machon Sara Yaakov and BJJ- Machon Sara Schneirer L’Moros Schneirer L’Moros. Over the past twenty years, she where she received her teacher’s certification taught in various schools, including Yeshiva of and graduated with honors. She then completed Brooklyn and Bais Kaila of Lakewood. In addition teacher training through Torah Umesorah. Her to teaching at RBY, Mrs. Cohen teaches at Passaic love of learning and passion for teaching, Torah Institute and The New York Seminary. Mrs. combined with her commitment to each student, Cohen uses her wealth of experience and make her an asset to Reenas Bais Yaakov. knowledge to explore fundamental topics found and the אמונה including facets of ,פרשת בראשית in role of a Jewish woman. פרשה Rebbetzin Rivka Eichenstein Mrs. Hava Freidenreich Parshah Science Rebbetzin Eichenstein, a graduate of Machon Sara Mrs. Freidenreich earned her B.S. in Secondary Science Schneirer L’Moros and Gateshead seminary, began Education and Biology from the University of Maryland, where she taught at College Park. She went on to pursue her M.A. in Science ירושלים her teaching career in BJJ Seminary and also directed the Special Education Education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education, Currently, Rebbetzin where she was a Teaching Assistant for General Biology .ירושלים in בית יעקב Program at the Eichenstein is the 12th grade Merakezet and Director and researched middle school students’ understandings of Teacher Training at Bais Yaakov Intensive Seminary of Genetics. Mrs. Freidenreich holds a NJ Teacher of in Boro Park. Rebbetzin Eichenstein is called upon Science Certification in Biology and Chemistry. Mrs. Freidenreich has worked for ETS, grading the free- to develop curricula for schools throughout the response section of the AP Biology exam. She has also to the פרשה metropolitan area. In addition to teaching worked for ETS as an Outside Item Writer and Summer twelfth-grade students at RBY, Rebbetzin Eichenstein Intern, developing questions for future AP Biology exams. .at Manhattan High School for Girls פרשה teaches Mrs. Sara Feigenbaum Mrs. Aviva Goldfarb Science Art Mrs. Feigenbaum is a graduate of Reenas Bais Mrs. Goldfarb earned a B.A. in Fine Art and Design Yaakov and Bnos Sara Seminary. She earned a from Yeshiva University and the Fashion Institute B.S. in Biology as well as a Doctorate in Physical of Technology, Suma Cum Laude, and has NJ Therapy from Touro College. Mrs. Feigenbaum State teacher’s certification. In addition to her brings with her into the classroom a passion for many years of teaching art, she worked in graphic biology as well as years of clinical experience in design and textbook illustration. She believes that the healthcare field. She uses her experience to creativity is essential for success in any field and demonstrate the practicality of biology and how that with encouragement and practice, anyone it affects our everyday lives. can learn to draw. מחשבת ביאור הלכה ישראל תפילה Mrs. Chani Gross Rabbi Dovid Gross History Halacha, Be’ur Tefillah, Machsheves Yisroel of Beth Medrash Govoha מוסמך Mrs. Gross graduated from BJJ- Machon Sara Schneirer Rabbi Gross is a L’Moros with teacher certification in Judaic Studies. in Lakewood, where he learned for over ten years. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Since 2001, he has been the director of Torah Links Edison College, took Master’s level courses at Fairleigh organization based in קירוב of Middlesex County, a Dickinson University, and received her NJ teaching East Brunswick. His years of educational and outreach certification. She also trained as a teacher mentor experience enable him to give students clarity in both through the Jewish New Teacher Project, a role she fills Students emerge from his class on .השקפה and הלכה in RBY. Mrs. Gross has been teaching American history with a strong foundation in the basic י”ג עקרי אמונה and other subjects for over two decades. She currently the teaches junior high school American history in Yeshiva tenets of Yiddishkeit. Shaarei Tzion in Piscataway and gives classes for Torah Links in East Brunswick. Mrs. Gross is a dynamic teacher who encourages independent thinking and instills in her students a love for learning. Mrs. Sukey Gross Mrs. Sara Kaplan English Science, Math, STEM Mrs. Gross is a graduate of Bais Yaakov Academy Mrs. Kaplan earned her B.S. in Biology and Psychology Teacher’s College and received her M.A. in Guidance from Touro College after graduating from Yavne Teacher’s and Counseling from Long Island University. She has Seminary in Cleveland, OH. She graduated Summa Cum and Laude with her M.S. in Biomedical Sciences from Rutgers לימודי קדש been teaching for over 35 years, both and has given teacher training courses. Mrs. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Before teaching לימודי חול Gross is the author of a series of novels for young adults at Reenas, Mrs. Kaplan worked in the personal care and including Passport to Russia and The Secret Diary, and food industries, including Revlon, Colgate-Palmolive, and has recently completed the first three novels of a new ConAgra Foods, performing research and development historical series for young adults. She has also published in the microbiology departments. A scientist at heart, short stories in various contemporary magazines such Mrs. Kaplan loves to foster questions, fascination, and as the Jewish Press, Binah and Mishpacha. Mrs. Gross excitement within her science students and to develop gives private courses and creative writing workshops. an overall appreciation for the scientific complexity of Under her expert instruction, our students publish their own short stories. Hashem’s world. Mrs. Chava Konigsberg Mrs. Hinda Kram History Math Mrs. Konigsberg received teachers’ certification Mrs. Kram graduated from Touro Graduate School from Bnos Chava Seminary and a B.A. in History and of Education with a Masters in Math Education Psychology from Touro College. Mrs. Konigsberg began and Special Ed. She has been teaching math her teaching career at Bais Yaakov of the Lower at Yeshiva of Flatbush for the past few years, East Side. She then continued to Bruriah High School, specifically Geometry, Algebra, and AP Calculus. teaching Global and Jewish History and serving as After moving to Eretz Yisroel, she has continued to there for over ten years. Aside from teaching at teach remotely at several different high schools מחנכת Reenas, Mrs. Konigsberg currently teaches History at across the U.S. We are excited for her to join our Aderes Bais Yaakov and AP Psychology in Ilan. Mrs. math team this year, teaching our 11th graders Konigsberg focuses on textual skills in the classroom Precalculus from Yerushalayim! and challenges her students to see history’s lasting impact on the world around them. הלכה Rabbi Eliezer Krohn Ms. Elisheva Kroll Halacha Public Speaking, Statistics Rabbi Krohn, learned in Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah Ms. Kroll, a RBY graduate, attended Machon Raaya in Queens and Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, and seminary in Israel.