Rabbi Dovid Shenker
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Rabbi David
Shenker is director of Jewish
Education Program (JEP) of Long Island and Camp Nageela. JEP-LI
promotes Jewish learning for children and families through a wide
variety of programs including Hebrew School enrichment programs,
individualized study centers, weekend retreats, online study, and more.
Camp Nageela works with JEP-LI and other Jewish organizations to
provide Jewish children with a superb summer camping experience
enhanced by Jewish flavor and values. Thousand of children are serviced
by these programs annually.
Rabbi Shenker has a Bachelors of Engineering from Polytechnic
University, and Rabbinical Ordination from the Torah Vadaath yeshiva.
He resides in Far Rockaway NY with his wife and seven children.
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