The Moriah School (Englewood, NJ), one of the nation’s premier Jewish day schools educating more than 800 students from across Bergen County, will be hosting its Annual Dinner on Saturday, March 1st. The dinner will take place at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck, NJ at 8:30 p.m.

This year’s honorees are Roni (’84) & Yehuda Blinder (Guest of Honor), Debby Prince (MAP Award), Dr. Michal Agus Fox (’88, Alumni Award) and Dr. Elliot Prager (Rabbi J Shelley Applbaum Award).

Roni is a Moriah graduate (’84) who served as a board member for eleven years, was an Executive Committee member, and chair of the Moriah Parade Committee. Yehuda has led several committees at Moriah, worked on journal campaigns, and is a current member of the Executive Committee. He has also been an Executive Board member of Congregation Ahavath Torah.

Debby began her volunteer work in the Jewish community by serving as Co-President of Yeshiva University’s Future Builders in 1990-1992. She has been involved in Amit, Emunah, Lubavitch on the Palisades and Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, NJ, where she is currently a board member. She is a past President of Ahavath Torah’s Sisterhood and a past President of the Moriah Association of Parents.

Dr. Michal Agus Fox (’88) lives in Englewood with her husband Natie, and their four children. Michal received a Masters in Early Childhood Special Education from Teachers College and her doctorate in School-Clinical Child Psychology from Yeshiva University. Michal has been the School Psychologist for the Ramaz Early Childhood Center and Lower School for the past 11 years, as well as the Director of the Early Childhood Center for five years. She serves on  Moriah’s Education Committee.

Under Dr. Prager’s dynamic leadership, the past nine years have brought Moriah’s pursuit of educational excellence to new heights. In every aspect of the educational program, Dr. Prager’s devotion to our children’s academic, ethical, spiritual, and social-emotional growth and his equally passionate embrace of innovative approaches to teaching and learning have produced a vast array of curricular, programmatic, and administrative initiatives which have transformed the depth and breadth of the Moriah experience. From the internationally recognized E2K science and math achievements, to the Brit Midot and the many projects it has spawned throughout the grades, from the Bonayich Mishna/Talmud curriculum to the New Teacher Mentoring project, from the nationally recognized Names Not Numbers Shoah program to the 5th grade Hebrew Distance Learning and the Thurnauer Artist-in-Residence program, Dr. Prager’s educational vision has enriched the lives of students and teachers alike. Through his forging of partnerships with institutions and foundations such as PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education), Avi Chai, and CIJE (Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education), Moriah has been the beneficiary of many groundbreaking programs, the most recent being the selection of Moriah as one of only five day schools in the nation to be awarded the prestigious three-year BOLD grant for our Moriah Multi-Modal Learning initiative, a grant which Dr. Prager co-authored.

Prior to his tenure at Moriah, Dr. Prager taught in Israel at the Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad, at the Hebrew University, and was a lecturer at Yad VaShem. Upon returning to the U.S., he taught on the faculty of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute and held Head of School positions at Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School and the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.

For more information on Moriah or the Annual Dinner, please contact Nila Lazarus (Director of Development) 201-567-0208 ext. 373 or nlazarus_moriahschool.org. To register for the dinner, go to www.themoriahdinner.org.

Honorees pictures attached.