Elizheva Hurvich, RoshElizheva serves as Netivot Shalom's Youth and Family Education Director. She loves Hebrew, loves to sing, loves sharing time with young people, and she absolutely loves being Jewish. Working at Netivot Shalom is an opportunity to help others find meaningful experiences through Torah and Jewish values. She feels blessed and lucky to be here.
Educators
Cedar (they/them) grew up in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in 2014 with a major in Hebrew and Arabic Languages. Shortly after graduating, they migrated to the Bay Area to connect with earth-based Jewish community and begin studying ecofeminist Jewish ritual leadership with the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. After four years of training, they were ordained in July 2018. As a Kohenet, Cedar is passionate about making Jewish wisdom accessible, inclusive, liberatory and engaging. They’ve served as a ritual leader with Eden Village West and Ohel Moed and are excited to be co-leading High Holidays at the JCC this year with Jewish Studio Project.
In addition to teaching at CNS, Cedar works as a Lead Mentor with Wilderness Torah's B'Naiture program and a Digital Storyteller and teaching artist with their company Sacred Witness Media. They create liturgical and secular loop music and are deep into a long-term multimedia storytelling project about their ancestors who migrated from Romania to Minneapolis at the turn of the 20th century. Cedar is excited to explore the rich landscape of Jewish stories with Ketzev students this year, inviting them into an imaginative and personal relationship with the characters in and between the lines.
Nechama Langer, Hebrew Specialist Nechama Langer is a Bay Area Native who has been working as a Jewish educator for many years. Passionate about the infusion of Judaism, art, and personal development, she has served as a Jewish educator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, taught Hebrew school at Beth Shalom, Emek Habracha, directed a family education program with Hazon and taught art at South Peninsula Hebrew Day School.
Nechama holds a BA and a Masters in clinical psychology with a specialization in expressive arts. She studied sofrut (the art of being a Jewish scribe) at Pardes in Jerusalem and is a ketubah maker and freelance artist.
Nechama enjoys teaching kids of all ages. She is excited to be a part of Netivot Shalom.
