Golda Och Academy appoints new Upper School principal

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Golda Och Academy recently appointed Rabbi Elliot Goldberg as the new Upper School principal, effective July 1. Goldberg comes to Golda Och Academy with more than 20 years of experience working in Jewish day schools. He has served as head of school at the Solomon Schechter Day Schools of Greater Hartford and Greater Boston, and was a founding member of the leadership team of the Chicagoland Jewish High School, now the Rochelle Zell Jewish High School.

Goldberg is currently a visiting scholar at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where he is writing about the teaching and learning of rabbinics in Jewish day schools. Additionally, he is a consultant for the Legacy Heritage Instructional Leadership Institute, formerly the Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks Initiative, of the Davidson School for Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has spent a lifetime of summers at various Camp Ramah locations and is a member of the board of directors of Camp Ramah in New England.

After completing an A.B. in public policy from the University of Chicago, Goldberg received a Wexner graduate fellowship to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he earned a master’s degree in Jewish education and rabbinic ordination. He is also a graduate of the Senior Educator Program at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Day School Leadership Training Institute of the Davidson School.

“I am thrilled to be welcoming someone of Rabbi Goldberg’s caliber into our Golda Och Academy community,” Head of School Adam Shapiro said. “I have no doubt that he will complement our talented leadership team and inspire our dedicated faculty. A day school graduate himself, from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md., Rabbi Goldberg understands first-hand what it means to study in a rigorous dual curriculum, and we are confident that these experiences will help him to best connect with and motivate our students.”

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