Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel
Rabbi Jacob M. Ott Hebrew School News
Please Welcome our new Hebrew School Director, Rabbi Carrie Benveniste
Dear Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel Families,
My name is Rabbi Carrie Benveniste. I’m honored to announce that I have been chosen to serve the new Director of Education for Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel’s Hebrew School. My career as an educator began during my undergraduate years at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where I worked with teen parents in the Teen Academic Parenting program. I was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University here in Los Angeles, California.

Since ordination, I have taught in both after-school religious school programs and day school programs. I served as the director of a small congregational school in San Luis Obispo, the co-director of a congregational school in Venice, the Director of Education and Assistant Rabbi for the Malibu Jewish Center for the past nine years, I have served as the Director of Education at Congregation Tikvat Jacob’s Ohren Education Center in Manhattan Beach.
I am the mother of two teenage children, two dogs, an African Grey parrot and a goldfish. I am a native Californian and feel passionate about bringing the California experience to Jewish education. I strongly believe that Jewish education should be both joyful and engaging. Our job in educating Jewish children is to inspire a desire for lifelong learning while giving them a foundation to be the builders of the future of American Judaism.
As both a mother and a teacher, I understand the difficulty we face motivating our students to learn in an after-school Hebrew School. I believe students learn best with interactive learning. We will incorporate more student involvement and less frontal based learning.
We will be reopening our IN-PERSON HEBREW SCHOOL for all of our students and families this fall with exciting new programming, great teachers, a strong Hebrew curriculum and a return to our beautiful synagogue where we can gather and learn together. I look forward to meeting you ALL and working with this amazing community. Keep an eye out for registration and calendar information coming soon.
If you are signing up for Hebrew School for the first time please use this link:
If you are a returning family and have used TADS in the last year an email with your personalized code will be sent shortly.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Carrie