| About Head Staff |
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Camp Seneca Lake takes pride in the quality staff that return year after year. Our division heads, Chinuch staff, Sports & specialty staff, waterfront directors, infirmary personnel and any other specialty area staff all play an integral part in the day to day operation of the camp. We are one big family that cares for your children like our own. Irv Bader: Owner/Director Ross Zuckerman: Assistant Director Some of our main staff include... Gail Goldman - Division Head Brenda Pianko - Division Head Yitzi Hartman - Division Head Stacey Klass - Division Head Ethan Stein - Division Head Karen Hershkowitz - Division Head Karen Zalta - Division Head Hannah Lippman – Division Head Karen Gurewitsch - Day Camp Director ------------------------------ Andi Koppelman - Program Director Debbie Polansky - Head of Summer office Anne Fuchs - Head of Summer office Patrina Balchan - Bookkeeper / Office Manager ------------------------------ Rabbi Zvi Schindel - Head Rabbi Menachem & Naama Nagar – Chinuch Staff Yossi & Cheftsi Yehuday - Chinuch Staff -------------------------- Lauren Goldman - Head Nurse Milo Tawil-Handwerker - Assistant Nurse Talia Cohen - Assistant Nurse ------------------------------ Tori Simon — Lake Director Andrea Randolph - Pool Director Stephanie Roberts - Athletic Director Mark Wiseman - Athletic Director ------------------------------ Jennifer Winkler - Drama Director Joan Kagan - Head of Arts & Crafts/Woodshop Camp DirectorIn 2010 Irv was elected into the Jewish Basketball Hall of Fame  Irv Bader is the founder and Director of Camp Seneca Lake. He has been a camp Director for over 41 years, and hires all his staff members, and oversees the entire camp operation. He makes sure that all campers' religious, social and athletic needs are met. Irv has been able to retain key staff members at camp for many years.
Irv is also the Chairman of the Physical Education Department and Athletic Director at Touro College in New York, NY. Prior heading up Touro College's Athletic Department, he was the Athletic Director at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, NY and Flatbush Yeshiva in Brooklyn, NY. He was also the Director of Adapted Physical Education for the New York City Department of Education for 28 years and a retired Professor of Physical Education at Brooklyn College for 26 years.
Camp Rabbi
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Rabbi Zvi Schindel, a native of Teaneck, N.J. and alumnus of The Frisch School, has been involved in many formal and informal educational pursuits. Before moving to Los Angeles with his wife, Yehudit, and two children [Akiva-3;Ayelet-1], to teach at Maimonides Academy in West Hollywood, Zvi served as Rabbinic Assistant to Rabbi Hain at Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence, NY and was a Judaic and Secular Studies teacher at HAFTR High School. In college and graduate school at Yeshiva University Rabbi Schindel studied English Literature and Jewish Philosophy and has participated in educational programs around the globe, teaching and lecturing in Germany, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Australia, along with many cities domestically. He and his wife love traveling and enjoying new experiences. They chose Camp Seneca Lake as a destination for its commitment to the principles of Torah U'Madda and its love of Eretz Yisroel, a place they hope to call home in the near future.
