Our Team

Our Team.

Directors.

Shalev Musel

Education Director/Shaliach

Jenny Isaacs

Executive Director/
Camp Director

Jacob Mazer

Operations Director

Dominique Beaudry Wright

Development Associate

Mazkir Tnua
(Youth Movement Director - Youth)

Mosh Kayitz Hanhaga - 2023.

Summer Camp Head Staff - 2023

From Left to Right:
Caelen (Rosh Tarbut/Head of Programming), Melanie (Rosh Chinuch/Head of Education), Jenny (Camp Director), Shaun (Rosh Mosh/Head Counsellor), Maydan (Shlicha/Education Director)

Seasonal Health Team.

Gary is a family physician with St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates in downtown Toronto. He is an alumnus of Camp Miriam near Vancouver, which feels very similar to Shomria. He has 3 children at Mosh, one in hadracha, the other two still campers. He also lives with 3 cats and 2 hives of bees. He spends much of his professional time in the city addressing the health consequences of poverty, homelessness and other social risks to health, so his weeks at Shomria offer a wonderfully different practice environment.

Gary, MD

Dr. Leah Smith (she/her) is a Family Physician working in central Ottawa. She is also a Lecturer with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She runs a family practice serving a diverse population with many interests including LGBTQ care. She also enjoys teaching Resident doctors training to become Family Doctors. She attended mosh for 11 years in her youth and is incredibly excited to return in this new role. She will be joined by her husband and two toddlers this summer.

Leah, MD

Dr Erin Sandilands is an emergency physician, practicing in Brantford ON since 2015. Thanks to some terrific mentors, she is involved in teaching point-of-care ultrasound skills to physicians from across Canada and beyond. Erin is a parent of several adult and teenage children, the youngest of whom has been attending Mosh since 2016. She has served on Hashomer Hatzair's board of directors for the past few years, and is looking forward to this opportunity to witness and support youth in person this summer.

Erin, MD

Adriana (they/them) is a Registered nurse living in Toronto, Ontario. They have spent 13 summers at summer camp, as a camper, counselor and eventually unit leader/senior staff.
Adriana's love of summer camp, care work and Judaism makes them very excited to work at Camp Shomria this summer as the Health Centre Coordinator.

Adriana, RN

Samara is a social worker in Toronto who has over 10 years of experience in community social work and in private practice. She spent 17 summers at Camp Massad in Manitoba, as a camper, staff member and, ultimately, director, and grew up immersed in the world of Jewish community. In Toronto, she continues to be involved in refugee activism, local politics and community-building. Samara is married to another former camp director and they are parents to two boys under the age of 3. There is nothing Samara loves more than camp, community and sing-alongs. She is our Director of Community Care and will be our on-site social worker in our Two Weeks A Session.

Samara, MSW

Denise, MSW

Denise is a social worker in Toronto. She has been teaching at Oraynu Sunday School for the past 17 years alongside her social work career. She loved being a camper and counsellor for many years at other camps as well. Denise is looking forward to seeing Camp Shomria in action this summer. She will be our on-site social worker for our 2 Weeks B session.

Shaun has been part of the Camp Shomria community for the past fifteen years. They were the Rosh Mosh in 2021 and 2022 and are excited to re-join the team this year as the Community Care Associate and link between our two social workers.

Shaun is currently in training to become a psychotherapist.

Shaun, Community Care Associate

Kitchen Team.

Board of Directors.

Miriam schachter

Miriam was a chanicha and madricha in Hashomer Hatzair and at Camp Shomria in the 2000's. (Kvutzat Nachson)

Erin sandilands

Stephen Skrzydlo

Stephen started at Shomria at age 8, grew up in the movement, became a counselor, and eventually served in virtually every leadership position available, including Rosh Tech (in charge of operations), Rosh Tarbut (head of programming), and Rosh Mosh (head of staff). While away from the movement in Waterloo Stephen got married and had two children. Recently Stephen joined the Board of Directors with a desire to improve the sustainability of the movement through policy and documentation, as well as ensure that it remains primarily youth led. Professionally, Stephen leads a team of Cloud Economists as a Director at a large Canadian ed-tech company. (Yedid: Lahav 1994)

Dalia Krusner

Dalia Krusner serves as chair of Hashomer Hatzair Canada's Development Committee. Dalia spent more than a decade at Camp Shomria as both a chanichol and madrichol, and is a member of Kvutzat Hazorea (2007). She also snuck in a few more summers at mosh as the director of Heart to Heart from 2012-2015. Dalia has a BA in Peace, Conflict, and Justice Studies from the University of Toronto, and an MBA in Nonprofit Management and MA in Jewish Professional Leadership from Brandeis University. Dalia currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is the Associate Regional Director for the New Israel Fund in New England.

hannah cohen

Michael (Mishka) Unea

Mishka first came to Shomria in grade 6 and has stayed involved to date as a counselor, Head of programming (Rosh Tarbut), and Head of Staff (Rosh Mosh), and is now the co-chair of the Board of Directors. Mishka is passionate about creating an organized Board of Directors who is prepared to help our youth leaders realize their goals. In his professional life Mishka is a civil litigation lawyer who stays busy with a very active child and dog. (Yedid: Kfar Menachem 2000)