Josh Mason-Barkin, MAJE/MAJCS is Director of School Services at Torah Aura Productions. His job is to be there for our customers.
Wondering how to train your teachers to use our new lifecycle book? Drop Josh a line. Need to spice up your Hebrew/prayer curriculum? Get in touch with Josh. Have a question about whether S’fatai Tiftah or Journeys? Josh is your man. Want to run the best teacher training session ever? Call… Josh. Josh is also especially interested in the curricular challenges of teaching Jewish history, and he’s very proud of his first book, God: Jewish Choices for Struggling With the Ultimate, and his second (with Joel Grishaver), Artzeinu: An Israel Encounter.
He is a graduate of HUC-JIR in Los Angeles, where he received masters degrees in Jewish education and Jewish communal service. As an undergrad, he was one of the only Jews at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he double-majored in politics and religion. Josh has worked at the World Union of Progressive Judaism in Jerusalem, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles, and a number of L.A.-area congregations. Josh has also served as a faculty member, staff trainer, and curriculum consultant at URJ Camp Newman.
Josh volunteered on the CAJE 33 mazkirut, and he’s a member of the Jewish Educators Assembly and the National Association of Temple Educators.
Josh is a graduate of a Solomon Schechter day school, attended Hebrew school at a Reform synagogue, and was a member of a labor-Zionist youth movement. He recently married Sara Mason-Barkin, religious school principal at Temple Emmanuel of Beverly Hills and soon-to-be-ordained HUC rabbinical student.
If you need more information, check out Josh’s facebook page or his personal blog.
Or… you could just email or call. josh@torahaura.com • (800) BE-TORAH, x122.
