Miriam Kaplan Aron is a member of the National Board of Hadassah and serves as the Jewish Education chair. She is also a past president of the Northern New Jersey Region of Hadassah. She is a longtime Teaneck, NJ resident, who grew up in Bayonne and attended Rutgers’ College in New Brunswick. She received her MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Business. She and her husband Marc raised their three children in Teaneck. Miriam’s involvement in Hadassah began in the womb – she is the daughter of past National President of Hadassah Deborah Kaplan. Miriam’s father Aaron was head of Bayonne High School’s English Departments, along with being a teacher in the United Hebrew Schools, a Talmud Torah, also in Bayonne. Miriam and Marc frequently travel to Israel to visit their daughter, son-in-law and five grandchildren – the last of whom is a sabra, born at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem.