Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar

Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar is the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE) in Miami. She joined the CAJE staff in 1993 where she served in a variety of capacities, including working on teacher professional development, Israel education, and outreach to interfaith families. In 2002, she was formally designated Director of CAJE’s Department of Adult Learning and Growth, and in 2010, she was asked to serve additionally as a Regional Director (part-time) on the International Staff of the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning. Under Rabbi Zarren-Zohar’s leadership, the Melton School of Miami was chosen from among 50+ schools internationally to receive The Florence Award for Outstanding School of the Year in January 2015.

Rabbi Zarren-Zohar graduated with Honors from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she helped found the Reform Chavurah and then was asked to serve as the first Program Director at The University of Michigan Hillel. She then went on to study at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion, where she was ordained in New York in 1992, following an additional year of study at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She worked for one year as an Assistant Rabbi at Temple Solel of Hollywood, Florida, before taking a position at CAJE-Miami.