JCC Global Information

Smadar serves as Executive Director since 2001. Prior to that, she worked for JCC Association of North America, developing and directing teen and Taglit trips to Israel and supervising 12 teen partnerships around Israel. From 1993-1996 she served as a Jewish Agency Community Shilcha at the Columbus Jewish Federation, Ohio. From 1987-1993 she was the Program Coordinator for 80 staff and lay leadership JCC Association Israel seminars. As a university student, she was a summer camp Shilcha in North America, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia.Smadar holds an M.A. degree (with honors) in Contemporary Jewry from Hebrew University, and a B.A. (with honors) in International Relations and English Literature also from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Smadar is a graduate Kolot Pluralistic Beit Midrash, a two year mentorship at the Mandel Leadership Institute and a course in Strategic Management for Leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations at the Harvard Kennedy School. Smadar resides in Jerusalem and is the mother of Noam and Hadar. Noa joined JCC Global as Program Director in 2017. Prior to that, Noa served as JDCs 2016 Ralph I. Goldman Fellow in Global Jewish Leadership, JDCs premier leadership opportunity awarded to one person per year. For an entire year, she lived and worked in several Jewish communities around the world, in Europe, Latin America, India and FSU. She got to know many JCCs and JCC leaders and brought to fruition several projects.Prior to that, Noa worked as Project Director for the Council for Higher Education in Israel where she managed national projects from inception to execution, including the Centers of Excellence program.Noa comes with a strong and varied academic background. She holds a Masters degree in Neurobiology that she graduated with honors, and a Masters degree, with honors, in Public Policy and Government, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Noa is also a Beit Midrash Facilitator. Noa resides with her family in Beit Zait, a village outside Jerusalem.