Courses by instructor: Rabbi Shalom Bochner

Rabbi Shalom Bochner – Rabbi Shalom Bochner serves as the Director of LifeLong Learning for Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley where he oversees adult and youth education. Before moving to Berkeley in 2008, Rabbi Bochner served as the Director of Jewish Campus Life, Executive Director and Campus Rabbi for Santa Cruz Hillel. He has a background in formal and informal Jewish education having served as the Regional Youth Director and Executive Director of United Synagogue in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, Director of Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, WA and Camp Givah in Upstate, New York, Education Director at Congregation Sinai in San Jose, and Judaica Director for the Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos. Rabbi Bochner has a BA from SUNY Albany in Sociology and Judaic Studies, an MS in Education from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and received traditional semichah (rabbinical ordination) in Jerusalem in 2004.