Mark Willner’s 60 years of teaching at Temple Emanu-El

A split image: on the left, an older gentleman wearing a green sweater smiles warmly at the camera; on the right, a black-and-white photograph features a younger man in a suit holding a cup and gazing thoughtfully to his side.

Since 1965 Mark Willner has shared his love of Jewish history with students in Temple Emanu-El’s Department of Lifelong Learning. Over thousands of Sundays, Willner has taught about the Holocaust, the state of Israel, and other major moments in Jewish history. Many current religious school students are the children of Willner’s past students. On March […]