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MELTON SCHOOL HONORS DIRECTOR
By CAJE MIAMI
May 31, 2012

Rabbi Efrat Zarren-Zohar has served as director for the
Florence Melton Adult Mini School in Miami for 15 years.

The school, a social franchise that forms an international network
of community-based schools offering adults the opportunity to
acquire Jewish literacy and a program of the Center for the
Advancement of Jewish Education, is recognizing Zarren-Zohar
with a new international Melton course named in her honor in
which students and alumni chose the topic and sponsor it.

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