Dr. Zipora Schorr Inducted into Baltimore Hall of Fame

Dr. Zipora Schorr has been Director of Education of the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School since 1982, after having been principal of the Lower School for four years previously. When she arrived at Beth Tfiloh, the school included a total enrollment of 320 students. Today, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School includes a High School, which has graduated over 1,500 alumni, and a current student body of nearly 1,000. Committed to “Klal Yisrael” which respects the wide range of observance among Jews, Zippy and Beth Tfiloh work to promote unity among all branches of Judaism.

 

Before coming to Beth Tfiloh, Dr. Schorr was the principal of Beth Shalom Nursery and Hebrew School in Potomac, a new school for which she developed curriculum and recruited staff and students. Prior to that she taught High School English literature and math at Yeshiva University High School, served as consultant to the Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington, and taught ulpan (Hebrew language immersion) classes and trained teachers.

 

Zippy received the 2003 Covenant Foundation Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators, was also named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women, and has received the Governor’s Citation in recognition of her life’s work. She was awarded Outstanding Educator in the Diaspora by Michlelet Lifshitz of the Israel Ministry of Education in 2012.

 

She chairs the Baltimore Jewish Day Schools Principals’ Association and is a member of the IAAM Board of Governors. She serves as Treasurer of the Dahan Foundation and has served as a member of the board of The Associated and RAVSAK.

 

Zippy is married to Dr. Norman Schorr, a psychologist in private practice. She is the mother of six children and the grandmother of many gorgeous grandchildren. She comes from a family of Jewish educators who are principals of outstanding day schools in America and Israel.

 

After doing her graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, Zippy recently completed her Ed. D from Gratz College in Philadelphia in Educational Leadership.