Year Round Staff


Rabbi David Soloff, Director
Rabbi David Soloff has been the Director of  Camp Ramah in Wisconsin since 1975. A graduate of Brandeis University, he earned a master of arts and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1974. Rabbi Soloff is the Co-Chair of the Midwest Jewish Camp Directors' Association. He is a past president of the Chicago Region Jewish Educators' Assembly and the Chicago Rabbincal Assembly and former chair of the Education Committee of Chicagoland Jewish High School.

 
Benji Bearman, Business Manager
Benji Bearman is the Business Manager of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. In this capacity, Benji is responsible for the finances and operations of the camp. He also oversees construction projects at camp including the upcoming Chadar Ochel. Benji also works closely with the Ramah Day Camp. Prior to starting at Camp Ramah full-time, Benji was the Director of Youth Activities for the Mid-Continent Region of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for eight years. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communications. A former camper, counselor, Rosh Aidah and fieldworker, Benji has been at Camp Ramah since 1989. Benji lives in Skokie with his wife Faye and their daughter Mia, one of the youngest campers at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin!
 

Linda Hoffenberg, Development Director
A former Ramah Wisconsin camper (Nivonim 1970), Linda and her husband Michael lived in Israel in the 1970's and 1980's. When they returned to the United States they settled in Skokie, Illinois, with their three sons, Ilan, Jon and Noam.
Linda earned a degree in Hebrew Language Education from Spertus College in Chicago. While in Israel she worked at Bar Ilan University and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Back in the U.S., she worked in the travel industry for 10 years.
Linda joined the year-round Ramah staff as Development Director in 1997. She is very proud to be a part of the Milestone Campaign efforts, a celebration of Ramah's past and a plan to secure its future. Linda and Michael are active members of the Skokie Minyan of Beth Hillel Congregation B'nai Emunah, and they are proud grandparents of future Ramahniks Benji, Talia, Danny and Gabriel Hoffenberg.

 
Marilyn Blonsky, Bookkeeper
A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Marilyn has been a member of our year-round staff for 8 years. Previously she worked for the law firm Holleb and Coff for 25 years as a data processing supervisor. Marilyn enjoys going to the theatre and traveling.
 
 
Jordan Newmark, Registrar
Jordan is orginally from St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Art History. She joined our staff in the fall of 2006. In addition to working with us at Ramah Wisconsin, Jordan also dances with the Leopold Group, a Chicago-based modern dance company.
 
 
Angela Goldstein, Marketing and Development
Angela is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She comes to us from Ramah Darom, where she began as a camper during the camp's first summer in 1997. She continued to spend her summers there as a camper, counselor, and Rosh Aidah until 2006. Angela graduated with a BSBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and joined our staff last summer.
 
 

Jacob Cytryn, Program Director
Jacob Cytryn is a Wexner Graduate Fellow as a Ph.D. candidate in Jewish Studies & Education at Brandeis University, where he is currently a Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies and Research Assistant at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. A lifetime Ramahnik, Jacob has been a camper, participant in Ramah Seminar Plus, counselor, teacher, project coordinator, and Rosh Aidah before joining us year-round as Program Director in January 2007. He has an M.A. in Talmud and Rabbinics from JTS and a B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a member of Nativ 19. He spent three years as a faculty member in Jewish Studies and Math at the Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in Manhattan, has served as a scholar-in-residence for USY regions, and facilitates on-line book groups for the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Jacob currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife Tamar.

 
Robin Rubenstein, Alumni Coordinator
Robin Rosenbaum Rubenstein brings tremendous energy and warmth to her position as she keeps 60 years worth of Ramahniks connected to camp through email, special events, and visits to camp. She is excited to be working for Ramah since she was a camper for 6 years (Nivonim '90), attended Israel Seminar ('91) as well as a staff member working as a junior counselor and counselor. After being away for several years, Robin returned to camp in 2000 and has worked in various positions as her husband served as a visiting rabbinic educator.

Robin is originally from suburban Chicago. She graduated from the Joint Program of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University in 1996 with degrees in Talmud and Political Science. Robin currently lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan with her husband Steven and her (future Ramahnik!) children, Ari (6) and Tali (3).