{"id":2267,"date":"2014-04-28T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2267"},"modified":"2015-03-24T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:21:34","slug":"ccjw-2014-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2267","title":{"rendered":"CCJW 2014 &#8211; FACULTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2361\" alt=\"facebook header 3 capture\" src=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/facebook-header-3-capture-1024x326.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/facebook-header-3-capture-1024x326.png 1024w, https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/facebook-header-3-capture-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/facebook-header-3-capture.png 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 id=\"column1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; width: 20%; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"CCJW 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2248\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">OVERVIEW<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 id=\"column2\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; width: 20%; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"CCJW 2014 \u2013 SCHEDULE\" href=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2278\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">SCHEDULE<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 id=\"column3\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; width: 20%; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"CCJW 2014 - Faculty\" href=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2248 \"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">FACULTY<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 id=\"column4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; width: 20%; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/register.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">REGISTER<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 id=\"column5\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px; width: 20%; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"CCJW 2014 \u2013 FACULTY\" href=\"http:\/\/torahnetwork.org\/wp\/?page_id=2331\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">ABOUT CTN<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Bitton\"><\/a><b style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 13px;\">JACKIE BITTON<\/b>\u00a0Jackie, a shining star on the motivational speaker&#8217;s circuit, hails from New York and has been involved in Jewish women&#8217;s education and Jewish outreach activities for over a decade. \u00a0After spending most of that time inspiring individuals and communities in San Diego, California and Seattle, Washington, she moved back to the New York area where she and her family now live. Jackie is currently Dean of Students at YDE Girls Yeshivah and teaches a popular weekly Torah class for women in her Brooklyn community.\u00a0 She is a frequent speaker to women of all Jewish backgrounds and ages\u00a0throughout the United States, Canada and Israel, and her passionate and humorous presentations have made her an extremely popular and sought after speaker on a wide variety of topics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Gutstein\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>FRAN GUTSTEIN <\/b><\/span>Fran describe herself as &#8220;a mom, mom-in-law, grandmom, rabbi\u2019s wife and full time social worker\u201d &#8211; all jobs at which she consistently enjoys great success. \u00a0A a social worker, she has spent over 25 years working with youths and their families in a variety of Chicagoland community settings, working together with children, parents, school personnel and community members in supportive and educational capacities.\u00a0 As part of her private practice, Fran has developed the ONQCenter for Success (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onq4success.com\/\">http:\/\/www.onq4success.com\/<\/a>) \u00a0which offers individualized sessions,\u00a0 social skills groups,\u00a0 teacher workshops and parenting groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Lurie\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>JULIE LURIE<\/b><\/span> A beloved and highly respected Torah teacher to women around the world, Julie has developed a unique and powerful approach to discovering the keys to character development in classical Torah sources. She taught for many years at a variety of college-level seminaries in Israel and then at the New England Academy of Torah, in Providence, Rhode Island. Currently, Julie, along with her husband, Rabbi Yitzchak Lurie, work in Jewish outreach at MEOR on the Northwestern University campus. In addition, Julie teaches relationships and marriage classes to Jewish women of a variety of backgrounds through local classes as well as an international teleconference series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Silverman-Levine\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>LAUREN SILVERMAN &amp; JANIS LEVINE<\/b><\/span> <b><\/b>Lauren &amp; Janice have been in business for more than 10 years and have seen it all \u2026 and organized most of it! They are passionate about what they do through their company\u00a0<i>MOREganized<\/i>, and have found that they enjoy their clients as much as they enjoy their jobs.\u00a0 They help people get and stay organized, reduce stress and gain comfort and control in the spaces where they live and work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Twerski\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>REBBETZIN FEIGE TWERSKI\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Rebbetzin Feige Twerski is a community leader and scholar whose wisdom and insight have made her an advisor and mentor to thousands of women around the world.\u00a0 Together with her husband Michel Twerski, she has devoted her life to building the Milwaukee Jewish community, while lecturing and teaching on a myriad of Judaic subjects in Jewish communities around the world.\u00a0 Feige has also authored numerous articles on parenting, marriage, and Jewish philosophy and is a regular contributor to\u00a0aish.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px;\"><a name=\"Zimmerman\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>RACHEL ZIMMERMAN<\/b><\/span> Rachel Zimmerman, MA LCPC, has a Master&#8217;s Degree in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. 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