Legacy of Learning

“Understanding how we give to the world starts with education” says Dori Chandler, 2001 B’nai Shalom Alumna and daughter of Marilyn Forman Chandler. Dori is a Policy Advocate for the Coalition for Clean Air and says that her Jewish identity has been a thread through her entire personal and professional life, much to the thanks of her mother’s support of a Jewish Day School education. 

According to Dori, her Mom knew that B’nai Shalom Day School could support her three daughters’ personal development, as well as provide them a sense of community- -something that was extremely important to her Mom.

She says that her education at B’nai Shalom, coupled with her mother’s example of how you can lead a spiritual and Jewishly involved life, “gave me the values and core identity that have stayed with me and shaped me into the person I am.”

When Dori was young, her Mom took her and her two sisters, Shira (2009 alumni) and Hallie (2005 alumni) on trips to Moldova and Israel to connect with the global Jewish community. She shares “I have tried to mirror my Mom as I walk my own path.”

Dori has taught in supplemental religious schools for over 10 years and has served as a leader in interfaith non-profit work. “To know where I come from and my Jewish values has allowed me to articulate that to others.” She works to build the values that she wants to see in her community and be the changemaker her mother taught her to be. Her Jewish values root her in the “construction of healing the world.” 

We thank Dori for the work she has already done and for the work she will continue to do to make the world a better place and to build the Jewish community of tomorrow.

Like Mother, Like Daughter.