Aviva Lauer

Aviva Lauer is Chief Education and Educational Training Officer of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and Gottesman Family Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. She holds an MA in Midrash from the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Aviva, who lives in Jerusalem, is a veteran Jewish educator specializing in teacher education and mining meaning from Jewish text. She writes here in a personal capacity.