All the Kitah staff are experienced educators and parents! This is a crucial element in the success of our online Jewish school. If your family has chosen to send your children to public school, to educate them at home, or if you live too far from a Jewish day school, this online Jewish school program is for you.
Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Founder and Educator
Rabbi Reuven Spolter has taught formally and online for over two decades. Before his aliyah, he taught middle school Judaic studies in the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, NJ, high school Judaic studies at the Hebrew High School of New England in West Hartford, CT, as well as at the Akiva Hebrew Day School in Southfield, MI. He is also the founder of the Mishnah Project, an online flipped-classroom learning initiative focusing on using the power of visual learning to bring the Mishnah Yomit program to a global audience.
A graduate of Yeshiva University with an MA in Secondary Jewish Education from the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration and Rabbinic Ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Theological Seminary, both at Yeshiva University. He has taught and lectured to groups of all ages in communities around the world. He is recently earned a Masters of Arts Degree in Talmud from Bar Ilan University. Rabbi Spolter is also the director of English-language programming at Herzog Global, a division of Herzog College in Israel.
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Sarah Golubtchik, Educator
Sarah Golubtchik is a passionate educator who is dedicated to creatively engaging students of all ages. Sarah has worked as a classroom teacher and administrator, and currently supports teachers through coaching and the development of curricular materials. She holds a M.S. Ed. from Yeshiva University, a B.A. from Barnard College, and is a graduate of the Morot L’Halacha program at Matan HaSharon.
Rabbi Nathan Fein, Educator
Rabbi Nathan Fein has taught Elementary and Middle School Judaic studies at Fuchs Mizrachi in Beachwood, Ohio, and Berman Hebrew Academy in Silver Spring, Maryland. In addition to his expertise in Judaic studies, Rabbi Fein has taught woodworking at multiple schools and camps, and gardening through GrowTorah. He holds a BA in History from the University of Maryland, an MS in Education from Azrieli, and Semicha from RIETS. Rabbi Fein also mentors teachers in their own professional development through BetterLesson. As an Eagle Scout and recent ole to Carmel Gat with his family, Rabbi Fein is dedicated to fostering both academic and personal growth in his students, and to creating meaningful connections between Torah and the world around us.
Adina Blaustein, Educator
Adina Blaustein taught Judaic Studies and led the Tanakh Department at the Fuchs Mizrachi Stark High School. In addition to her years of expertise in Jewish day schools, she is a gifted adult educator, lecturing most frequently for the Community Beit Midrash at Fuchs Mizrachi and for Siegel Lifelong Learning, a division of Case Western. Adina won the first place Kohelet Prize for her innovative work in mastery of Tanakh skills in 2018. Adina has graduate degrees in Bible and Adolescent English Education and was certified by Nishmat in 2019 to be a Yoetzet Halacha. Adina is currently the Content Team Director at AlephBeta.
Ariella Nadel, Educator
Ariella Nadel has been a TaNakh teacher and community educator for the past twenty-five years. Until making Aliya two years ago, she was a TaNakh teacher at Yeshivat Akiva/Farber Hebrew Day School in Southfield, Michigan where she also served as Guidance counselor, Mechanechet and experiential educator. Ariella loves bringing the stories of TaNakh to life and exploring their timeless relevance. She currently teaches in seminaries and is an educational resource curator for UnitEd. Ariella Nadel has a pedagogue degree from Michlala College for Women in Bayit V’Gan and holds degrees in Judaic Studies and Political Science from Yeshiva University and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.