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Jordana Schuster Battis

Rabbi Jordana Schuster Battis is the director of K-12 curriculum at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, Mass. (tbsmayim.org), where the faculty members she coaches are referred to as “Jewish Learning Guides” and are charged with bringing depth of relationship and depth of content to their students.

NiSh’ma: Al Tifrosh Min HaTzibur

Jordana Schuster BattisOctober 11, 2016

Jordana Schuster Battis: Yakir Englander writes that Hillel’s text demands that each of us be a social critic, sometimes standing as a “single saint in Sodom,” crying out a message of change from within a society hostile to our plea.