Camp Be'chol Lashon Staff Bios
 Sarah Spencer |
 Kenny Kahn |
 Rabbi Ruth |
 Denise Davis |
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Sarah Spencer
Camp Be'chol Lashon Co-Director
Sarah was raised in San Francisco in a large, blended multicultural family. She had a formal Hebrew school education until her tween years when she chose to attend public school where she hoped to learn more about the many cultures that inhabit the Bay Area. She graduated from a large San Francisco public school with a strong sense of social need and a growing curiosity for the world that existed outside of her Jewish Identity.
She attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland where she studied many fine art mediums. She majored in textiles because the study allowed her to focus on a variety of world cultures. This exploration of the world through fabric introduced Sarah to the world Jewish community, and reignited Sarah's own Jewish cultural history and identity.
Sarah used her curiosity, experience and degree to become a non -formal Jewish educator with children and adolescents. Sarah helped to develop the Club 18 teen program at the JCCSF into a space for teens of every background to come explore and express their identities through a variety of social, educational and leadership activities.
Sarah directed Club 18 for five years before attending the University of San Francisco where she obtained her Masters in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy. Sarah focuses her work as a therapist on adolescent identity development and multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi religious blended families. Sarah has a San Francisco based private psychotherapy practice, and works in schools as a diversity counselor.
Sarah is also intimately connected to Bechol Lashon personally as well as professionally as it is her familiy’s business. She is the daughter of Gary and Diane Tobin.
Sarah lives in San Francisco with her husband Kirk, and their one year old son Josiah. Kirk is originally from Jamaica and identifies as a “Jewmaican”. Sarah and Kirk continue to explore and expand the vast cultural identities within Judaism together, and look forward to passing this passion on to their children.
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Camp Be'chol Lashon Co-Director
Sarah was raised in San Francisco in a large, blended multicultural family. She had a formal Hebrew school education until her tween years when she chose to attend public school where she hoped to learn more about the many cultures that inhabit the Bay Area. She graduated from a large San Francisco public school with a strong sense of social need and a growing curiosity for the world that existed outside of her Jewish Identity.
She attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland where she studied many fine art mediums. She majored in textiles because the study allowed her to focus on a variety of world cultures. This exploration of the world through fabric introduced Sarah to the world Jewish community, and reignited Sarah's own Jewish cultural history and identity.
Sarah used her curiosity, experience and degree to become a non -formal Jewish educator with children and adolescents. Sarah helped to develop the Club 18 teen program at the JCCSF into a space for teens of every background to come explore and express their identities through a variety of social, educational and leadership activities.
Sarah directed Club 18 for five years before attending the University of San Francisco where she obtained her Masters in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy. Sarah focuses her work as a therapist on adolescent identity development and multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi religious blended families. Sarah has a San Francisco based private psychotherapy practice, and works in schools as a diversity counselor.
Sarah is also intimately connected to Bechol Lashon personally as well as professionally as it is her familiy’s business. She is the daughter of Gary and Diane Tobin.
Sarah lives in San Francisco with her husband Kirk, and their one year old son Josiah. Kirk is originally from Jamaica and identifies as a “Jewmaican”. Sarah and Kirk continue to explore and expand the vast cultural identities within Judaism together, and look forward to passing this passion on to their children.
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Kenny Kahn
Camp Be'chol Lashon Co-Director
Kenny Kahn is an English teacher and football coach at El Cerrito High School. Raised in Richmond, CA, Kenny has been invovled with Be'chol Lashon since its founding. He received a bachelor's degree in literature, creative writing and poetry and a master's of education from UC Santa Cruz.
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Camp Be'chol Lashon Co-Director
Kenny Kahn is an English teacher and football coach at El Cerrito High School. Raised in Richmond, CA, Kenny has been invovled with Be'chol Lashon since its founding. He received a bachelor's degree in literature, creative writing and poetry and a master's of education from UC Santa Cruz.
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Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
Camp Be’chol Lashon Camp Rabbi.
Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder is the Camp Be’chol Lashon Camp Rabbi. A permanent staff member of Be’chol Lashon, Rabbi Ruth (as she is known at camp) believes that the informal camp setting is a wonderful way to engage with the wealth of Jewish tradition and culture. Rabbi Ruth brings her love of Jewish food and history to life into the educational framework of camp and into her interactions with staff and campers.
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Camp Be’chol Lashon Camp Rabbi.
Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder is the Camp Be’chol Lashon Camp Rabbi. A permanent staff member of Be’chol Lashon, Rabbi Ruth (as she is known at camp) believes that the informal camp setting is a wonderful way to engage with the wealth of Jewish tradition and culture. Rabbi Ruth brings her love of Jewish food and history to life into the educational framework of camp and into her interactions with staff and campers.
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Denise Davis
Dr. Denise Davis helped found Camp Be'chol Lashon and was the camp director in 2010. Dr. Denise Davis is a physician and clinical faculty at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. A member of Temple Beth Abraham, a Conservative congregation in Oakland, California. Denis is also the mother of her daughter, Aviva Ruth.
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Dr. Denise Davis helped found Camp Be'chol Lashon and was the camp director in 2010. Dr. Denise Davis is a physician and clinical faculty at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. A member of Temple Beth Abraham, a Conservative congregation in Oakland, California. Denis is also the mother of her daughter, Aviva Ruth.
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