Texas Community Hails Late Preschool Teacher as Mentor

Avi Webb - Chabad.org

Robin Schneiderman, right, and Chana Raizel Zaklikowski pose with their Gan Gani preschool class seven years ago.

S ANTONIO, TX — Members of south Texas' Jewish community remembered Robin Schneiderman - who died last Wednesday at the age of 62 - as a dear friend, a true inspiration and a mentor. Schneiderman, who was fondly referred to as Morah Robin - morah means teacher in Hebrew - taught the pre-K class in S. Antonio's Gan Gani Day School until two months before her passing.

Texas Community Hails Late Preschool Teacher as Mentor

Avi Webb – Chabad.org

Robin Schneiderman, right, and Chana Raizel Zaklikowski pose with their Gan Gani preschool class seven years ago.

S ANTONIO, TX — Members of south Texas’ Jewish community remembered Robin Schneiderman – who died last Wednesday at the age of 62 – as a dear friend, a true inspiration and a mentor. Schneiderman, who was fondly referred to as Morah Robin – morah means teacher in Hebrew – taught the pre-K class in S. Antonio’s Gan Gani Day School until two months before her passing.

When Schneiderman walked into a service at Chabad-Lubavitch of South Texas one day in 1999, she was not looking for a new job. Neither was Rivkie Block, the Chabad center’s co-director, looking for a new hire. But she did need a periodic substitute teacher and she asked the newcomer, in passing, if she could fill in.

After observing Schneiderman’s teaching style for a short while, she was amazed by who she had come across.

“She was a rare find,” relayed Block. “She was extremely educated and almost instinctively wise.”

As the day school’s needs grew, Block gave her own class responsibilities to Morah Robin and moved on to direct the school.

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