Beth Steinberg
Founder
Beth Steinberg is the Executive Director and co-founder of Shutaf. A believer in Jewish camping, Beth is a graduate of Massad and Ramah camps, where she learned the importance of informal education programs as a platform for teaching Jewish and social values. As parent of a child with special needs, she struggled to find workable, appropriate activities for her child. Beth believes that a well-run inclusion program can help educate and change values, creating meaningful and lasting social change.
Beth moved to Israel with her husband, Ira, and their three children in 2006 from their home in downtown Brooklyn where she worked as a caterer, whole foods educator and consultant and director of a teen theater ensemble that served the New York City homeschooling community. Now in Jerusalem, Beth produces web content and Internet publications as a partner in The Honey, a local writing and design team, and directs Theater in the Rough; creating new kinds of theatrical experiences for Jerusalem audiences.
E-mail:beth@campshutaf.org
Miriam Avraham
Founder
Miriam Avraham is the Chief Operations Officer and co-founder of Shutaf. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, Miriam made aliyah in 1980, settling first in the Haifa area before moving to Jerusalem in 1993. A graphic designer by trade, Miriam worked for over 20 years in the field before joining her husband’s non-profit development business as a grant writer. Miriam writes Hebrew books for young readers and dabbles in EFT – emotional freedom technique, a meridian tapping methodology used for healing and wellness.
Parent to a child with special needs, Miriam, along with her husband, Yehuda, have been long-time advocates in the field, struggling over the lack of services for children with special needs in Jerusalem as well as a sense that what’s offered could be so much better. A product of the Ramah movement, Miriam spent many happy years at Ramah’s Day Camp in Nyack as well as Ramah in the Berkshires. Miriam believes that including people with special needs in society is a way of diversifying and strengthening the greater community, teaching tolerance and acceptance of differences.
E-mail: miriam@campshutaf.org
