Lea Wohl-Segal, at The Blogs

Oct 7, 2020, 8:03 PM

After my military service in the IDF, I worked as a flight attendant. I enjoyed working with good people, visit interesting places and physically feel how open and close the world really is. I didn't like to wear makeup,...

Mar 25, 2020, 1:46 PM

If Not Now

Kabbalat Shabbat at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, Summer 2019. (courtesy)

A long-time Jewish educator in Israel and the US, including many summers at Ramah, the camping arm of the Conservative Movement, I find myself more and more occupied with the growing distance between the Jewish world and Israel. The...

About Me

Born and raised in Tel Aviv and having served in the IDF as an officer, Lea Wohl-Segal is a long-time Jewish educator in Israel and the US, where she has worked at Ramah camps for many summers. She served for ten years as Rosh Ivrit (Head of Hebrew language instruction) for Ramah Programs in Israel, including Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim and Ramah Seminar. Lea received an MA in Jewish Educational Leadership from the Schechter Institute (JTS) and an MA in comparative literature from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Wohl-Segal has taught Hebrew and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School, and currently teaches literature and Hebrew to students at the Beit Zvi theatre school, the Academy of Theatre Arts in Ramat Gan, and is a senior Jewish educator at the Raziel youth village in Herzliya.