JCC Welcomes New Youth/Teen/Camp Director  

The Jewish Community Center is excited to announce that Deborah Huerta has joined the JCC staff as the new Youth, Teen and Camp Director.

Deborah grew up in Southfield, Michigan as an active member of the metro-Detroit Jewish community.  She led her temple's youth group, taught Sunday School and Hebrew School and organized Jewish teen conferences while in high school.  These positive experiences and her love for Jewish languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish, led her to pursue a major in Judaic Studies while at the University of Michigan.  During her undergraduate years, she worked at a Jewish summer camp, ran the Humanistic Havurah at the University of Michigan’s Hillel and tutored other undergraduate students in Hebrew.  She went on to pursue her Masters degree in Judaic Studies at UofM, and is currently completing her master's thesis on the development of new religious movements in American Judaism since WWII.  She met her husband while at UofM and they were married in August at the Michigan Union.

Deborah is incredibly excited to be joining the wonderful team at the JCC.  She is looking forward to applying her love for working with youth and her passion for dynamic Jewish cultural programming as the new Youth, Teen, and Camp Director.  She encourages parents, children, and teens to contact her with ideas, questions, or suggestions at deborahhuerta@jccfed.org.