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Rabbi Melissa Zalkin Stollman ‘10, MARE ‘08 is a major gifts officer for the Union for Reform Judaism, after serving Congregation Kol Tikvah in Parkland, FL, for five years as the Director of Lifelong Learning. During that time she supported a community dealing with a terrible tragedy, and the mental health effects from its aftermath. Prior to that position she served her alma mater, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, as the Program Coordinator of the Certificate in Jewish Education for Adolescents and Emerging Adults. Rabbi Stollman has extensive experience working for the Union for Reform Judaism and its affiliates such as camps, the Association of Reform Zionists of America and the North American Federation of Temple Youth in mental health and education roles. Rabbi Stollman also has a master’s degree in Social Work from Boston University in addition to rabbinical ordination and a master’s degree in Religious Education from Hebrew Union College. She is a proud URJ Camp Coleman alumna attending many summers to serve on staff and faculty. She is a graduate of the University of Florida. Rabbi Stollman is also a member of the Association of Reform Jewish Educators, Women’s Rabbinic Network, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. In her free time Rabbi Stollman enjoys health coaching, teaching Pilates, running Zoom tech for the URJ and congregations, playing mah jongg, singing and strumming her guitar, and spending time with her husband, David, and their three children.
Dr. Michael Zeldin ‘77 is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College. He was Senior National Director of the Schools of Education and was responsible for the creation of the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education. He was also the Founding Director of DeLeT, HUC’s program to prepare teachers for Jewish day schools. His scholarship focuses on mentoring in Jewish professional life, Reform Jewish day schools and summer camps, and the leadership practice of Managing Enduring Dilemmas. For more than a decade he served as Senior Editor of the Journal of Jewish Education.
Tamara Gropper, MAJE ‘94, CPCC, ACC is a Clinical Faculty Mentor in the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College. She is the founder of KIVUN Coaching, LLC, holding space for her clients to tune into their own brilliant knowing and chart their next steps forward with vision and purpose. Tamara recently became a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach and is especially proud to be a founding member of Coaching for Everyone, a non-profit organization providing complimentary coaching and leadership support to BIPOC populations with a focus on young adults, K-12 educators, and non-profit employees.
Rabbi Dr. Laura Novak Winer ‘95, RJE ‘94 is the Director of the Master of Educational Leadership program at the Hebrew Union College‘s Rhea Hirsch School of Education in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to mentoring students, she is currently teaching courses in the School of Education on Leading Change in Jewish Education, Leading with a DEI Mindset, and Creating Cultures of Learning. Laura has worked in and with a variety of afternoon school settings. Laura has been published in a variety of academic and online journals, is a regular contributor to Moment Magazine’s “Ask the Rabbis” column, and was the editor of several curricula, including Sacred Choices: Adolescent Relationships and Sexual Ethics (2005 and 2007). Laura is a past president of the Association of Reform Jewish Educators. Laura earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Master of Arts in Jewish Education from the Rhea Hirsch School of Education and rabbinical ordination at HUC, and a doctorate in Education from The Jewish Theological Seminary Davidson School of Graduate Education. She lives in Fresno, CA, with her husband Rabbi Rick Winer.
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