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Ann Hurwitz

Ann Hurwitz teaches early childhood development at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. She has also worked as an adjunct professor of teacher education at the Bank Street College of Education in New York and as director of the Park Avenue Synagogue Early Childhood Center. Hurwitz is the author of One Mezuzah: A Jewish Counting Book as well as articles and poems.

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Dorothy Walter Baruch

Psychologist Dorothy Walter Baruch championed the health development of children as an educator, author, psychologist, and as a community leader. Her psychodynamic approach to child development focused on the relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual development and on rechanneling children’s feelings through play and art therapy.