Benny Ferdman

As a pioneering faculty member at New Community Jewish High, Benny Ferdman envisioned an arts program that would spend as much time outside the art studio as inside it. He imagined weaving a specific Jewish theme into each year’s arts curriculum to help guide the hands of the school’s artists, the melodies of its musicians and the feet of its dancers. Over the last decade, his vision has become a reality, creatively blending Judaism into the daily studies of New Jew’s students.