NEW JERSEY
Cantor Sarah Silverberg
Cantor Sarah Silverberg joined the Temple Beth Or community on July 29, 2014. Cantor Sarah loves serving the community in many capacities. From singing on the floor with our youngest tots to engaging with adults of all ages, Cantor Sarah brings music, passion, and warmth to the whole community.
Cantor Sarah was ordained in 2013 from the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religious in New York City. During her five years as a cantorial student, she proudly served congregations as a cantorial intern in South Bend, Indiana and in Garden City, New York. Cantor Sarah found a passion for pastoral work and spent two summers as chaplaincy intern at NYU Langone Medical Center. In the year following cantorial ordination, Cantor Silverberg continued her studies as a chaplaincy resident at the VA Hospital in NYC where she provided spiritual and emotional care to veterans of all faiths throughout the hospital system.
Cantor Sarah was born and raised just outside of Philadelphia. She received her bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern & Judaic Studies and Music from Brandeis University in 2008.
Cantor Sarah married her husband Marc in November 2013. They live in Waldwick with their daughter Maya.
Shari Kalter
Shari Kalter is the Director of Camp Neshama and the Early Childhood Department at the Lillie Brandt Early Childhood Center at Gottesman RTW Academy in Randolph, NJ. Having earned her bachelor’s degree at Ramapo College of New Jersey and a master’s degree in Jewish education from Gratz College, Shari has devoted more than 10 years to working in education with young children and their families and dedicated her entire career to working in the Jewish community. She is committed to nurturing the whole child as he or she learns to become increasingly independent during the early discovery years.
Prior to becoming the Director of Early Childhood Education at the Lillie Brandt Early Childhood Center at Gottesman RTW Academy, Shari taught and developed curriculum at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy for seven years. She also taught for various years at Jewish Montessori schools. In addition to her teaching experience, Shari has many years of programming experience. Some of those experiences include North Jersey JCC Maccabi delegation head, youth and teen director at the YM-YWHA of North Jersey, and Assistant Regional Director for United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, just to name a few.
Shari resides in Rockaway, NJ with her husband, three children, and two rescue dogs.