Debbie Cirulnick comes to us with more than 30 years experience as a Jewish educator. She and her husband Bob retired to St Petersburg last December and have made CBI their spiritual home. A New York native, Debbie has lived and worked as a Jewish educator in Jerusalem, Atlanta, Boca Raton and Miami.

Debbie founded the Brill Institute for Jewish Learning at the Marcus JCC and grew it into the largest adult Jewish education program in Atlanta, serving over 4,000 people a year. She established Atlanta’s Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, serving more than 300 students per year. She established a central agency for Jewish education in Syracuse, NY and directed the central agency in West Palm Beach. A graduate of Barnard College, Debbie studied at JTS and participated in the Senior Educators Program at Hebrew University, a one-year fellowship program for Jewish educators.