Sandra Menachem is the Judaic Studies teacher for 1st and 2nd grade. She has worked in education for over 25 years, having earned her BEd in Education and Administration from Ben-Gurion University, and a master’s degree at Bank Street College of Education. Outside of Brandeis, she teaches American Jewish history and Holocaust Studies to teenagers around the Bay Area,  and prepares students for their B’nai Mitzvot.