Sharon Freundel is the managing director of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge whose mission is to catalyze radical improvement in Jewish day schools. Previously, she served as the Director of Jewish Life at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital in Washington, D.C.; before that, she taught and was the department chair for Tanakh (Bible) and Torah Shebe’al Peh (Rabbinics), and was the mashgiha ruhanit (spiritual guidance counselor) of the Upper School at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD. In addition, she teaches adult Jewish education classes.
