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Upper School : Pamela Aranov
Pamela Aranov is a true Bostonian with the accent to prove it. A graduate of Girls’ Latin School, UMASS Dartmouth and Hebrew College, Pamela has been teaching Hebrew language and Jewish studies for almost all of her working life. She credits her love for Hebrew to her sixth grade teacher, Rose Bronstein, who inspired her to pursue teaching as a profession. A year in Jerusalem at Hebrew University gave her the fluency and passion that she brings to her lessons. When not working with her eighth graders, Pamela enjoys teaching Torah trope to fifth graders.
In her spare time, Pamela is an avid sailor and swimmer. She is a certified sailing instructor and ran an inner city sailing program for kids for four summers at Piers Park in East Boston. In the summers, she sails with her husband, Josh, and dog, Suzy, along the northeast coast. Her longest voyage was from Bermuda to Cape Cod.
Contact Pamela Aranov: pamelaa@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Margarett Ardman
Margarett Ardman has worked at Cohen Hillel in many capacities- the activity room teacher in kindergarten, seventh grade math teacher, a member of the learning center staff, and most recently as the science teacher for both sixth and eighth grades, and the sixth grade math teacher. She has a master’s degree in special education from Salem State College. She spent last summer volunteering as a special educator at the Ford school in Lynn.
This, however, was not how she started her adult career. Margarett graduated from Salem State College with a BS in Biology, with minors in chemistry and psychology. She worked as a laboratory technician at Tufts/New England Medical Center where she managed the allergy department’s clinical and general research laboratories. This work resulted in several papers published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and most impressively Nature.
Margarett has an avid interest in all things mechanical from computers to toasters. She currently runs a robotics club after school, allowing her to play with programming and designing. Her other interests are horseback riding (she just started taking western riding lessons) and most important to her are her three children.
Contact Margarett Ardman: mardman@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Tali Bloom
Tali Bloom is a native of Israel, raised in Rishon-Le-Zion. She studied and earned her BA Degree in Education and Special Education at The Teachers College in Tel-Aviv. Over her professional career Tali’s experience includes teaching students with severe emotional and learning needs. Tali has attended many workshops, courses and seminars to advance her abilities within the changing dynamics of Hebrew education.
She has been working in Jewish day schools, including Solomon Schechter of Newton and Cohen Hillel Academy, for the past eighteen years. She has previously taught at the North Shore Hebrew High School in grades nine through twelve. In addition to working at CHA, Tali is currently teaching Hebrew for Prozdor, the high school division of Hebrew College. Tali is excited about serving as a bridge between American Jewish education and Israeli life and culture.
When not in the classroom, Tali enjoys her trips to Israel, cruises and gourmet cooking. Tali has a son Ben and a daughter Danielle. With her husband Steve, she shares two stepsons, Zach and Josh, who is married to former CHA teacher, Jody Phillips.
Contact Tali Bloom: talib@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Polly Conti
Polly Conti has been teaching language arts and social studies in grades six, seven and eight at CHA for eight years. She has been an educator at the middle school level for her entire teaching career which spans 25 years. A graduate of Smith College in English and Psychology, Polly began teaching English at the Pine Cobble School in Williamstown, MA. and was an advisor to the yearbook and drama programs. She then taught for eight years at the Pike School. She was both the English Department Chairperson and the advisor to the drama program. During this period she pursued a master’s degree. Following a five year hiatus to raise her new baby daughter, Polly moved to Boca Raton and took on a teaching position at the Pine Crest School. She taught English as a Second Language to their students from European countries and South America and eventually became the seventh grade English teacher. She involved herself in many extracurricular activities at Pine Crest, spending time in the video lab, presenting the spring musical and becoming involved in student government. Twelve years flew by, and Polly missed New England. When her daughter went off to college she moved back to a family home in Rockport and discovered CHA. At Cohen Hillel currently, Polly is teaching sixth grade language arts and seventh grade language arts and social studies. She is the supervisor for the induction program for the mentoring of new teachers and is also the Language Arts and Social Studies Curriculum Advisor in the upper school.
Polly does have a life beyond teaching. She has renovated her family home in Rockport by the sea and loves the tranquility of her ocean retreat. Some of her spare time is spent working out in a desperate attempt to stay intact for a few more years. She is also a member of several book clubs, and shares with her seventh graders a love of computer games. She is most proud of her wonderful daughter and stepdaughter. Both 26, both in graduate school, they make her so proud on a daily basis that she can hardly contain herself. Teaching keeps Polly young, and she honestly looks forward to coming to work every day. When her students move onto eighth grade, she reminds them that they spend one year in seventh grade, but she remains there forever.
Contact Polly Conti: pollyc@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Sarah Fine
This is Sarah Fine’s first year teaching at Cohen Hillel Academy, and she is very excited to be here! Before coming to Cohen Hillel, Sarah worked in both regular and special education in a public school in Hopkinton, MA. She teaches math and science in the fifth grade. Sarah obtained a BA from Wheaton College in Norton, MA. She is currently working on obtaining a Master of Education from Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA. When Sarah is not teaching, she enjoys knitting and playing with her four nieces and nephews!
Contact Sarah Fine: sfine@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Andrea Cheatham Kasper
Andrea Rose Cheatham Kasper has her BA from The George Washington University where she majored in Radio and Television and minored in Dance and Jewish Studies. After several years of dancing and teaching she moved to Panama to dance in a modern company, Momentum, and teach at a Jewish Day school, Instituto Alberto Einstein, which was founded by her great grandparents.
Upon her return to the United States, she studied at Hebrew College and earned a Master's degree in Jewish Education. She teaches sixth grade Hebrew and Jewish Studies and seventh grade Jewish studies at Cohen Hillel Academy and is the Jewish Studies coordinator for K-8. Along with her work at Hillel she is teaching for her third year at Prozdor, the high school division of Hebrew College and has begun teaching and leading Shabbat morning services and activities at Congregation Shirat Hayam. Andrea is married to Jacob Kasper and they are expecting their first baby this March!
Contact Andrea Cheatham Kasper: andrea@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Lawrence Lodgen
Larry currently teaches fifth grade general studies and is responsible for coordinating holiday celebrations. He spent his first 22 years at CHA in fourth grade, taught upper school math and social studies and was the school’s social studies coordinator for many years. Before Larry began at Cohen Hillel Academy, he taught for six years in public schools. He and his wife Ellen met at Hillel and are the parents of Sara, a 2006 Hillel graduate. Born and raised in Revere, Larry has lived on the North Shore for most of his life. Larry has a BS in education from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from Suffolk University. Larry is the Director of SEA, a summer program for kids at Salem State College. When he is not at Hillel, you can find Larry either at Fenway Park or on a cruise ship. His other passions include politics, weather and Mel Brooks movies.
Contact Larry Lodgen: larryl@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Karen Madorsky
Karen Madorsky has been teaching at CHA over thirty years. She received her BA in English from SUNY at Albany and an MA in reading from Salem State. She also studied Holocaust education at Yad Vashem in Israel. Over the years, Karen has taught language arts and social studies in various grades in the upper school. In recent years she has been part of the eighth grade team. Karen has facilitated Cohen Hillel Academy's connection with Ford School in Lynn. This exciting program has been in effect for about fifteen years. During the last two years, Karen has helped establish the CHAMPS program, in which HIllel's seventh and eighth graders tutor Ford School students for MCAS. Outside of school Karen loves reading, walking, yoga, knitting, and especially her husband Jerry and sons, Adam and Daniel.
Contact Karen Madorsky: karenm@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Ann Noorani
Ann Noorani has enjoyed teaching math and science in our upper school for more than 20 years. Prior to arriving at Cohen Hillel Academy, Ann had taught at Triton Regional High School. Ann is a certified math teacher with a BA from Brandeis and an EdM from Harvard. A Marblehead resident, Ann has two adult children. Cyra is an equine veterinarian and Zach is a financial analyst. Her other child is an aging black lab named Tyler. She can often be found walking Tyler but her first love is horseback riding and she enjoys the sport of equestrian-show ring hunter. Ann participated on the synchronized swim team in college and makes a mean chocolate mousse. For those eighth graders who need an authentic source for their decades project, Ann attended the original Woodstock!
Contact Ann Noorani: annn@cohenhillel.org
Upper School : Rose-Jane Sulman
Sixth grade social studies teacher Rose-Jane Sulman missed Hillel so much that she retired and un-retired in the space of a year. After fifteen years as a Hillel general studies teacher in multiple grades, including second, fourth, fifth and sixth, she retired in June of 2006 and returned in September 2007. Until the year hiatus, Rose-Jane was on the sixth grade team for six years and she is thrilled to be back as a part time faculty member teaching social studies. Rose-Jane’s educational background includes a BA in English from Barnard College {1970} and an MAT from Eliot Pearson at Tufts {1991}. While she claims her favorite hobby is working at Hillel, she also loves spending time with her two little grandsons and beaching the summer away on the Cape.
Contact Rose-Jane Sulman: rose-jane@cohenhillel.org
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