Meet Mrs. Alissa Zeffren

Alissa Zeffren has been an educator for over 15 years. She currently teaches Tanach and Jewish history at Ida Crown Jewish Academy, where she also runs Student Activities and is the Director of Student to Student Chicago–a program that empowers Jewish teens to combat antisemitism through classroom-based presentations about the Jewish people and Judaism. Alissa is a ’23-’24 Sacks Research Scholars Fellow through The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and is working on her dissertation as a doctoral student at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration. Alissa completed the Orthodox Union Women’s Initiative 2024 COLI Chicago inaugural cohort. She lives in Skokie with her husband and four children.

Contact Mrs. Zeffren at[email protected]