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Aviva is the Chief Education and Educational Training Officer at Pardes, as well as the Gottesman Family Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. She majored in Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, and earned a Masters degree in Midrash at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.

Aviva is a Jewish educator with 25 years of experience in curriculum development, classroom teaching, school administration and educational consulting. Upon making Aliyah in 1996, Aviva developed formal and informal educational materials for Melitz and at the Leo Baeck Education Center, where she also gained experience in teaching pluralistic Judaism. She then served as the head of the department of Jewish Studies at Immanuel College, London.

Working at the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators since 2009, Aviva took on the role of PCJE Director in 2017, and began serving as Chief Education and Educational Training Officer in 2023.

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The focus and message of some Jewish holidays is crystal clear.  On Pesach, for example, we highlight the dichotomy of slavery and freedom.…

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At least in Israel, maybe this is the one year to let it go. A few weeks into the war, when the young…

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During a holiday where there is both darkness and light, where we retreat indoors and shine brightly from the windowsill, go on a…

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Parashat Bo 5782: Locusts That Last a Lifetime Description: In this week’s Torah portion of Bo, God rains down upon Egypt the last…

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Yom Kippur 5782 – Who is the Hero of the Jonah Story? In this podcast, Aviva Lauer explores the Book of Jonah, read…

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In this podcast, Aviva Golbert discusses Isaac and Rebecca: The Original Meet-Cute. See elmad.pardes.org for accompanying source sheet. This lecture was held at…

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In this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Vayera, somewhere between the horror show that is Sodom and Gomorrah and the monumental account of the…

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This week’s parasha, Pekudei, is the last portion in the Book of Shmot (Exodus), and the final section in a series on the…

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There’s no way to avoid it. Thanksgivukkah. It’s here. For perhaps the last time for some 70,000 years, American Thanksgiving and Jewish Hanukah…