Melissa Raye Moss is an English teacher by trade, and has been bringing her passion for literacy and Jewish stories to the Havurah Youth Center at the JCCSF for the last two years. In addition, she is leading a mighty group of second and third graders along with their amazing teachers this year. She is working on her first novel and her first children’s story book.
Arts December 30, 2013
I met Bruce Bierman last year, while he was teaching after school program students how to dance two Jewish dances for the Hanukkah holidays. Actually, we met twice in the same day. He later pulled me up from my seat at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav to dance... Read more
Last year, Gayle Effron and I brought a group of our after school students to Raphael House, a family homeless shelter here in San Francisco. We came bearing seventy-five boxes of cereal, which our kids gave to theirs. Cereal, as we learned, is a special treat in... Read more