Personal Background

Rabbi Lee Buckman

  • Senior Consultant for Shoah Research, Education and Documentation in Israel
  • 20+ years of leadership in Jewish education
  • Designed and launched a strategic financial plan that increased enrollment 50% in Grade 9 annually at the largest Jewish day high school in North America, Head of School, TanenbaumCHAT
  • Revitalized Atlanta’s pre-K to 8th grade community Orthodox Jewish day school, Head of School, Greenfield Hebrew Academy
  • Founded suburban Detroit’s only community Jewish high school, Head of School, Frankel Jewish Academy
  • Semicha, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg; MA University of Minnesota; MA and Rabbinic Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary, BA University of Michigan
  • Bilingual (Hebrew-English)