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It started with a phone call. When Covid shut down schools and Sunday school programs last March, Sharona Israeli-Roth, the S.F.-based regional director of the Israeli American Council, didn’t think it would last long. But as a former career educator, she still wanted to fill any gaps in Jewish education that were cropping up as, one by one, synagogues and schools closed their doors.
Sharona Israeli-Roth
One phone call with the head of the IAC later, she had a new role: setting up Ofek Hub to provide low-cost, online Hebrew language and Israeli culture classes for all ages.
When the first wave of coronavirus infections reached the American South, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas,