About Us
Our Mission
ShalomLearning is a non-profit organization that meets the evolving educational needs of today’s Jewish community in an engaging, relevant, affordable, and accessible way. We instill a love of lifelong learning where students, teachers, parents, and the community embrace Jewish values in the modern world.
Our Story
As a lifelong innovator in the educator space, Devin Schain saw opportunities to improve the experience his kids and future generations have in Hebrew school. He realized many educators in the space had limited time and resources to create a modern, engaging experience for today’s youth.
He wanted his kids to understand and appreciate their Jewish heritage and grow up connected to their culture in a meaningful way. He founded ShalomLearning in 2011 to create a community where Jewish education could thrive.
ShalomLearning created an online, innovative teaching curriculum, which was a revolutionary concept in 2011. ShalomLearning provides the technology, content, and professional development that synagogues, families, and Jewish communities need to teach Jewish values and Hebrew to children in a relatable and engaging way.
Meet Our Team
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Rabbi Sid Schwarz
Senior Fellow at Hazon: The Jewish Lab for Sustainability
Dr. Sarah Steinberg
CEO, Frogstone Strategies
Dr. Michael Horn
Chief Strategy Office, Entangled Group and Co-Founder, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation
John Katzman
CEO, The Noodle Companies
Daniel Pianko
Partner, University Ventures
Joshua Troderman
Former CEO, ShalomLearning, 2014-2020
Great Leaders Built a Great Curriculum
We are grateful to everyone who has contributed to the development of the ShalomLearning curriculum. The curriculum development team has been instrumental in engaging students in a way that imparts critical skills while building a lifelong love of Judaism and Jewish learning.
Leaders in Jewish Education and Education Technology advised the foundations of our curriculum in the early stages.
- Dr. Erica Brown, Director of Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership.
Site: www.ericabrown.com - Andrew Rosen, CEO at Interfolio, Inc.
- Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Senior Fellow at Hazon: The Jewish Lab for Sustainability.
Site: www.rabbisid.org - Dr. Jonathan Woocher z”l, Senior Fellow at Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah
The ShalomLearning curriculum is organized around seven core Jewish values that infuse our traditions (both ancient and modern) with wisdom and meaning. The project began in 2010 using the pedagogic principles of Understanding by Design (UBD), by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins.
- Jill Allenberg Stepak
- Aliza Sperling
- Rabbi Shmuel Feld
- Rabbi Yakov Majeski
- Mariana Haroun
- Tammie Rapps
- Barry Krasner
- JoHanna Potts
- Rebecca Weisman
- Avi West
- Meredith Woocher
As ShalomLearning program grew, so did the curriculum. The following writers contributed to the release of our third-grade curriculum in 2015, our seventh-grade curriculum in 2016, and our second-grade in 2017.
- Adam Bellows
- Rabbi Melissa Bellows
- Rabbi Danielle Eskow
- Amy Goldberg
- Heidi Lovitz
- Leah Maas
- Rachel Meytin
- Laura Naide
- Jennifer Newfeld
- Dana Kanter Prottas
- The Bible Players
We also want to thank all of the ShalomLearning educators who teach the program and share their valuable feedback, which drives the ongoing improvements to the curriculum. Our editors invest significant time and effort in incorporating this feedback.
- Heidi Baker
- Eliana Bernard
- Liana Brodsky
- Rachel Besser
- Mindy Gold
- Debi Himelfarb
- Rabbi Janice Mehring
- Becky Oliver
- Natalie Klein-Raymond
- Michele Rosenfield
- Jade Sank
- Shira Sender
- Marci Serfaty
- Shani Sicherman
- Alisa Silverman
- Cheryl Vogel
- Daniel Young
- Alison Zimbalist
