Norman Shore
Community educator Norman Shore is a graduate of Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, and has studied at Greenberg Institute and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A founder of the Jewish Study Center in Washington, DC, since 1978 he has taught in many adult education programs throughout the Washington Jewish community. His teaching has included courses in Basic Judaism, the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School program (a two-year, community-based program for adult Jewish learning), Derekh Torah, Rabbinics, Tanakh, prayer, and Jewish history as well as bar mitzvah studies. The first recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Studies' Master Teacher award, he is active in Fabrangen Havurah, the Foundation for Jewish Studies, and area synagogues, Jewish community centers, senior programs, and renewal groups.