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Religious School Director - Tamar M. Weinsweig

Prior to joining Tikvat Israel as interim Religious School Director, Tamar worked for two years at the Washington Hebrew Congregation as Hebrew department supervisor, overseeing 24 Hebrew teachers in two locations with student enrollment of 900. In 2004-2006, she was a 7th grade Judaic studies teacher at the school.

Previously Tamar served at Beth Shalom Congregation in Potomac, Md., as a preschool teacher and at the Community Day School in Pittsburgh as a Hebrew teacher. She also taught English in Budapest, Hungary for a year and spent two years with the Israel Defense Force in Haifa, Israel. Tamar recently completed the two-year program of study offered by the Florence A. Melton Adult Mini-School. This is an intense course of study for serious adult learners, taught by master educators in the Washington, D.C., area. Additionally, she was an active participant in the first cohort of the Israel Educators Institute, which met to study about Israel and ways to integrate Israel programming into congregational life. Both of these programs are offered under the auspices of the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning. The Melton courses met weekly for 30 weeks over two years; the institute met monthly for two years and incorporated a class trip to Israel.

She recently returned from the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education conference where she was a presenter to her Jewish educator colleagues from across the United States.

She is a 1998 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of arts in sociology.

Tamar lives in Rockville with her husband and three daughters (a kindergartener, 4th grader and 8th grader).