In honor of our parents
Golda z"l and Michael Och
and their dedication and hard work
that helped us to arrive at this milestone
of our 50th Birthday celebration.     
 
Jane and Daniel Och
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
יום הולדת שמח
 
Marty and Ahuva Gross
 
 
Mazal Tov on
50 great years!
 
We look forward
to the 100th!
 
Debbie and Steve Nadel
 

Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy 
on 50 years of inspiring the next
generation of Jewish leaders and
enriching our entire community!
 
Judi Harrison and Steve Gross
 
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring the next
generation of Jewish leaders
and enriching our entire community!
מזל טוב
 
Eleanor and Marc Kramer
 
Mazal tov to Golda Och Academy
on the success of the past 50 years! 

We can't wait to see what
the next 50 years will bring!
 
Michele and Jeff Landau
 
Yasher Koach to GOA on this auspicious time.  
Mazel Tov to our wonderful teachers, administrators and dedicated volunteers.  
Good luck to Atara, incoming Board president. 

We are in awe of our school and
proud to be GOA grandparents. 
What a wonderful, caring, and nurturing school!    
 
Sharon and Jimmy Schwarz
Marc Schiffman and Rachel Schwarz 
 
 
 

Mazel Tov on 50 years!

May the school
continue to go 
from
strength to strength.

Michael Och and Family
 
 
Congratulations to GOA on
celebrating 50 years!
 
Thank you to all the outstanding leaders
who charted the course for GOA
during the first 50 years!
 
Josef and Shelley Paradis
 
מזל טוב
Mazal Tov to 
Golda Och Academy
on 50 years!

Inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders and enriching our entire community!
 
Sam and Sheryl Pearlstein
Mazel Tov to Golda Och Academy.
What an amazing school, faculty,
staff and community.
We are so proud of who you are
and what you have become.
Looking forward to the next 50 years!
 
Mindy, Alan, Emily, Sophie,
Brandon and Zoe Schall
 
Thank you GOA for the outstanding education of our children, grandchildren
and future generations!
 
Happy 50th Birthday!
 
Howard and Betty Pantirer Schwartz Jonathan and Julie Schwartz
 
Through the generations,
Mazel Tov to the
Golda Och Academy family on our
50th birthday celebration! 
 
Sharon and Stephen Seiden,
Amelia and Cory Perlstein,
Talia, Seth and Eliana
 
Tonight we are proud to offer our best wishes for continued success to Golda Och Academy
for the next 50 years!
 
 
With thanks and appreciation,
 
Jane, Mark, Steven, Daniel,
Rachel & Andrew Wilf
 
Congratulations on 50 years of
educating the next generation of
Jewish leaders, doers and thinkers. 
 
Helene and Gary Wingens
and family
 
 
We treasure the Schechter Education
our grandchildren received.
 
          
BARBARA AND ED ZINBARG
 
Proud Grandparents of GOA Alumni
 
CORY, JESSE, AND HAYLEY NAGELBERG
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring the next
generation of Jewish leaders and
enriching our entire community!
 
Bruce and Michelle Berger
IN MEMORY OF A MAN WITH
VISION FOR A COMMUNITY

HORACE BIER

OUR PRIDE IN THE SCHOOL
RUNS 3 GENERATIONS DEEP!

YASHER KOACH
TO OUR ADMINISTRATORS
AND TEACHERS! 
 
ROBYN & JOSEPH BIER
 
 
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
on 50 wonderful years!
 
 
Elizabeth and Gerald Cohen
 
מזל טוב 
 
In Honor of Mindy & Alan Schall,
Emily, Sophie, Brandon & Zoe
 
With Love Mom & Dad -
Grandma & Grandpa
 
Sharon & David Halpern
 
 
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
on 50 wonderful years!
 
Caren and Larry Rothenberg
 
 
We Love You, GOA!!!
 
The Gutstein Family
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring the
next generation of Jewish leaders
and enriching our entire community!
 
Avi and Lilach Abergel
 
 
 
MAZEL TOV!
 
 
Ruth and Bruce Bier
 
Congratulations to GOA on its
50th Anniversary.
 
Wishing you the best for the next 50!
 
Shari and Mitch Broder and Family
Yasher Koach and Thank You
to the founders of the school,
our teachers and the
ongoing supporters of SSDS/GOA.
 
Stacey '89 and David Leibowitz, Sophie, Mac & Louis Jessica '89 and David Green & Oliver,
Sara Bucholtz '87 and Adam Feldman, Talia '17,
Dena '19 & Ilan '22

To all students,
parents and alumni
of Golda Och Academy
 
Mazal Tov on 50 years!

מזל טוב
 
Rachel and Robert Fink
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders and enriching our entire community!
 
Stephen and Mindy Goldman
 
 
To our GOA Board members past and present,
 
It is because of your leadership that our students
and alumni have continued to thrive and embody the dream of excellence that began in 1965 when the school was born. 
 
Miriam Lefkowitz and Marc Heimowitz
 
The Jacobson & Bieber Families Remember
 
S. Hirsch Jacobson
 
His teachings were endless.
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
on 50 wonderful years!
 
Dr. Matthew Askin, 
Miriam Linver, & Family
מזל טוב
 
Mazel Tov
Golda Och Academy!
 
Stephen A. Ploscowe, Esq/Fox Rothschild, LLP
 
Mazal Tov and thank you
to all of the wonderful
faculty, staff and administration
whose dedication has helped to make
GOA/SSDS an enduring institution.
 
Gil and Emily Raviv
 
Congratulations to GOA on
celebrating 50 years!
 
Thank you to all the outstanding leaders
who charted the course for GOA
during the first 50 years!
 
Gil and Sari Schorr
 
In memory of...

Golda Och

for her brilliance and inspiration
Mazal Tov to GOA.
 
Thank you to Atara Jacobson and the entire Jacobson/Bieber family."
 
 !כל הכבוד
 
Jane J. Felton, Partner
Skoloff & Wolfe, PC
 
Mazel Tov SSDS/GOA on
your 50th Birthday!
 
Alette and Keith Slobodien
Sayde, Rachel and Harrison

 
מזל טוב
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring
the next generation of Jewish leaders
and enriching our entire community!
מזל טוב
 
The Wieseneck Family
 
Happy 50th Birthday
 
Golda Och Academy!
 
Ari and Jessica Wise & Family
 
 
 
Congratulations to GOA on its
 
50th Anniversary.
 
Wishing you the best for the next 50!
 
Taryn and Gavin Berelowitz
 
Our family has been blessed to be part of the SSDSEU/GOA community since its inception.  
 
We would like to thank everyone who has been a
part of the school for the last 50 years!

We look forward to witnessing the next 50!

 
Liz, Jeff, Jacob & Hayden Bier
 
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
יום הולדת שמח
 
 
Susie and Howard Bruch and Family
 
Mazel Tov on GOA's Golden Anniversary.
 
We are so grateful that
this wonderful school has been here for
two generations of our family.
 
Joan and Harvey Bucholtz
 
 
On to the next fifty! 
 
 
Joyce and Neil Goldstein
 
Happy 50th Birthday Golda Och Academy!
 
Guzzo + Guzzo Architects
 
Congratulations to GOA
on celebrating 50 years!
 
Thank you to all the outstanding leaders
who charted the course for GOA
during the first 50 years!
 
BatSheva and Murray Halpern
 
Bravo
 
GOA

Bravo!!
 
Judy Rosenberg and Randy Haase
Mazal Tov
to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders and enriching
our entire community!
 
Barry Levine
 
 
Mazel Tov to
Golda Och Academy!
 
 
Edward and Cecile Mosberg
 
Mazel Tov to Golda Och Academy!
 
What an amazing school, faculty,
staff and community.
Looking forward to the next 50 years! 
 
Yana, Kenny, Giselle and Ashton Weiss
 
Congratulations on your 50th anniversary.
We are proud to be a part of it for the last 20!

Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy 
on 50 years of excellence in Jewish education. 
We're so proud to be hosting this special celebration!
 
Rabbi Jesse Olitzky '02
Marilynn Jacobs, President

 
 
Mazel Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of excellence. 

Mazel Tov to Adam Shapiro for all
you do and for leading the school
into the next 50 years.
 
Andrew and Barbara Hutter

The members of Oheb Shalom Congregation,
especially the many whose children and grandchildren are GOA graduates,
salute the school on its 50th birthday!
 
Rabbi Mark Cooper
Cantor Erica Lippitz
Bob Sandor, President
 
Mazel Tov to Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union/Golda Och Academy! 
 
Congratulations to the teachers and administrators who have given our children such an outstanding education, sense of ethics and a love of Judaism.
 
 
Judy Rachlin
 
 
 
Best Wishes to
Jane and Mark Wilf!
 
 
Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf
 
Mazel Tov to our partner and friend
Golda Och Academy on your 50th Anniversary!

Board of Directors, Students, and Staff of
Rutgers Hillel
Education is a gift that no one can take away
                                               
  -- American Proverb
 

Happy Birthday Golda Och Academy!
You are an important partner
in our community. 

Congratulations and best wishes
on this important milestone!
 

Saint Barnabas Medical Center
 
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
Daniel and Susan Stern
יום הולדת שמח  
 
 
 
We are indebted to our founders
and their powerful vision 50 years ago;
thankful to our teachers who inspire
our students each and every day;
and excited for all that the future holds!
 
Mazel Tov, Golda Och Academy!

Adam, Rena, Vered '27, Tamar '29,
& Noam '32 Shapiro
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
Mindy and Evan Blum
 
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
יום הולדת שמח
 
Stephanie and Alan Bonder
and Family
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy on 50 years
of inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders
and enriching our entire community!

Connie and Uzi Lior, CBL Fine Art
 
Mazel tov to the five decades of leaders at GOA who have combined the highest level of academic excellence with a rich, nurturing Jewish environment. May you continue to go from strength to strength. 
 
Sharon and Howard Charish
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 wonderful years!
 
Rabbi Alan Silverstein,
Cantor Joel Caplan,
Susan Werk
 
Congregation Agudath Israel
 
Mazal tov on the first 50 years
of Golda Och Academy!
May we go from strength to strength 
for the next 50 years.
 
 
Ada Beth and Chuck Cutler
 
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
 
Brenda and Jerry Deener
 
 
Best Wishes! 
 
כל הכבוד 
 
 
Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf 
and Dr. Perry Robins
 
 
 

From Strength to Strength!
 
Estelle & Lenny Edelson
 
Congratulations to GOA
on its 50th Anniversary.
 
Wishing you the best for the next 50!
 
Linda and Neil Freeman
 
 
Happy 50th GOA! 
(You don't look a day over 40!)  
 
 
Ethelyn and Ben Geschwind
 

Congratulations to
Golda Och Academy
where great effort has led to such extraordinary results.
 
Bambi and Bob Granovsky
 
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy
 
Harbor Haven Day Camp
 
In honor of
Atara Jacobson & Jeff Landau
 
May GOA continue to go
from strength to strength.
 
Jeremy Hirsh and Sabrina Safrin
 
Proud to have been a part of the first fifty years of SSDS/GOA!!
 
Keep going strong!!
 
Dr. Howard, Janice and Sarah'08 Hoffman
כל הכבוד 
 
 
Mazel Tov
on a dream fulfilled!
 
 
Dena & Bill Horn
Mazel Tov to Golda Och Academy on your 50th Anniversary!
 
L'DOR V'DOR       לדור ודור
 
In Loving Memory Of Brian Kheel z"l
 
Former SSDSEU Board Member,
Husband of Susan,
Father of Marsha (Kheel) Goldwasser '90,
Saba of Avi, Noam (Grade 8) and Shayna (Grade 5)

May his memory be a blessing
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
 
50 wonderful years!
 
Julie Schwartz Kopel and Reuben Kopel
מזל טוב
Happy 50th Birthday
Golda Och Academy!
 
Jill, Eric, Jonathan and
Aaron Lavitsky

In honor of the teachers,
staff, and volunteers 
who provided 50 years
of education excellence.
 
Ronni and Mark Lederman
 
 
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy on 50 years of inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders and enriching our entire community!
 
מזל טוב 
 
Liz and Jonathan Liss
 
 
Happy 50th birthday to GOA.
We are proud and honored to be a part
of this wonderful community.
 
The dedication that our faculty, parents, 
alumni and students give every day is inspirational.
 
 
The Luftig Family
 
 
It has been an honor
to spend 30 of the past
50 years with GOA

 
Joyce Raynor and Ron Meier
 
 
Wishing GOA many more years
of bringing joy and learning
to its students and their families.
 
Drs. Hal and Sandy Miller-Jacobs
 
Mazal Tov to
Golda Och Academy
on the first 50 years!
 
May the next 50 be full of
diversity, inclusion and
academic excellence!
 
The Parker Grayer Family
 
Thank you to
Golda Och Academy,
for all you have done for
the Jewish future.
 
Rabbi Joshua Heller
Congregation B'nai Torah
Thank you for inviting us to be part of your family -  
we look forward to helping you grow for the next 50 years.

Scott Baird
RBA Management, LLC
 
Congratulations to GOA
on its 50th Anniversary.
Wishing you the best
for the next 50!
 
 
Gail, Dennis, Carli & Jason Roth
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 wonderful years!
 
Roz Moskowitz Bielski,
Rachel and Jessica Bielski '11
 
מזל טוב 
We are so proud to be a part of
the GOA community!
 
Mazal Tov on 50 years of excellence.
 
מזל טוב
 
Adam and Judy Schlesinger
 
 
50 years and it's still Bereshit with
many more to follow!!
 
Lew Schwarz
"The world only exists for the sake of the breath coming from each child."
Talmud: Shabbat 119b
 
Mazal tov to Golda Och Academy 
on their half-century milestone!
 
Much love and pride, for our son Adam,
who continues to enrich and build
on this outstanding legacy!
May you both continue to
go from strength to strength! 
 
Judi and Steven Shapiro
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy
on 50 years of inspiring
the next generation of Jewish leaders
and enriching our entire community!
 
 
Yvette, Dave, Sammy,
Isaac & Levi Sharret
 
Thank you to all the outstanding leaders, teachers, administrators, board members and clergy
who charted the course for
GOA during the first 50 years.
 
 
The Sokolic Family, 
Joyce and Irvin z"l, 
David '85 and Shelly, Ameet, Noam & Ella
Robert '87 and Yvonne, Lancelot & Isaac
Jeremy '88 and Sarah, Isaiah, Coby & Arianna
 
 
Mazel Tov 
Golda Och Academy
 
 
Tamburri Associates
 
In honor of Rabbi Bill and Dena Horn,
beloved parents, grandparents, 
great-grandparents, and GOA
founders and leaders.
 
Moshe and Leslie Horn,
Dassy and Rabbi Randy Mark, 
Ora and Rabbi Joseph Prouser
 
 
Mazal Tov to Golda Och Academy on 50 years of inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders and enriching our entire community!
 
מזל טוב 
 
 
Sherry and Jon Woocher

In honor of our
children & grandchildren
Andrea, Steven, Cara
& Leia Kessler
 
Violet & Richard Zeitlin
Robert and Wendy Adler
Jo Anne Adlerstein
Rebecca Berman, Berman Consulting Services, Ltd.
Dr. Elaine R. S. Cohen
Nomi, Harold, Zach and Rafi Colton-Max
Nikki and Leonard Feldman
Amy and Alex Glickman and Family
Carol and Phil Goldsmith
Laura, Jeff and Jonathan Greif
Saul and Beverly Gutterman
Heidi Rivkin and Ben Jacobs
Marlene and Edward Herman
Dr. Gilbert Mayor and Dr. Jacquelin Holubka
Gabby and Zach Jaffee
Max and Hunter Janoff
Joanne and Elliot Bramnick and Family
Danielle Schwartz Auerbach and Jon Auerbach
Eric Knapp
Ravit and Michael Landsberg
Lisa Chrystal Herzberg, Ben '06, Ilana '09 and Arielle '09
Rabbi Mark and Genya Mallach
Susan L. Mayer, EdD, RN-BC
Molly and Alfred Pasternak
Alia and Dan Ramer
Paige and Jason Silberfein
Dottie and Donald Wagner
Janet and Neal Wolkoff
In appreciation to our dedicated teachers and staff, we say Todah Rabah!!!
 
20 or more years of service
 
Grigory Fulman Cassie Krauss Sandy Pyonin
Linda Glasofer Dov Laks Elisa Schenker
Janet Herman Anat Lev Tov Neta Shvartsman
Jamie Himmelstein Sari Manor Cohen Tova Silberman
Lori Jaffe Michael Newman Paul Spack
Rabbi Herb Kavon Anat Niv  
 
 
 
The Board of Trustees of
Golda Och Academy

 
Acknowledges with gratitude the support of

Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest

Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest
Many thanks to our fantastic
50th Birthday Celebration Leadership
 
Honorary Chairs
Dr. Michael Och, Jane and Daniel Och, Susan Och and Brian Kalver,
Rita Halbright and Jonathan Och


Event Chairs
Elizabeth and Jeffrey '90 Bier, Shari and Mitchell Broder, 
Michele and Jeffrey Landau, Mindy '97 and Alan '92 Schall

 
Journal Chairs
Michelle and Bruce Berger, Joan and Harvey Bucholtz, 
Eleanor and Marc Kramer, Sheryl and Sam Pearlstein, 
Sharon and Jimmy Schwarz
 
Many thanks to our 50th Birthday Celebration Virtual Journal Team!
 

Liz Liss, Coordinator 
Amy Silverstein
Sharon Stoch