Joanne Doades is a featured speaker at conferences, workshops, and training programs on Jewish parenting and Jewish identity development. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Religious Education from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She received certification in Jewish Family Education from the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, in association with Fordham University. She is the Director for Curriculum Development for the Department of Lifelong Jewish Learning at the Union for Reform Judaism.



"Joanne Doades touches the hearts and souls of Jewish parents when she speaks of the issues of raising American Jewish teenagers today. She is well-rooted in the Jewish sources that address the challenges of parenting as well as the realities of contemporary life. She engages her audience in an honest give-and-take."

Rabbi Arnold Bienstock
Congregation Shaarey Tefilla
Indianapolis, Indiana