ill Strassberg grew up in Westchester, NY and was part of a conservative Jewish center but did not attend Hebrew school.  She obtained her undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance and her MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Before becoming a full-time mother to her two teenage daughters she worked for two years in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs and for nine years for a large life insurance company in the Controller’s area.

 

When her youngest daughter started preschool, Jill became more Jewishly active and more observant.  She studied for and celebrated an adult Bat-Mitzvah with seven other women from Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in June 2011.  Jill has been very active volunteering at her Temple, serving as Sisterhood Treasurer, selling yarmulkes for simchas for six years out of the gift shop, was a member of the Board of Trustees (adult education co-chair) from 2017-2019, and co-chairs the Torah Fund campaign for JTS at Temple Emanuel.

 

Jill is also an active member of the Hills/Valley Coalition, a local school-based organization that promotes stigma-free mental health and a substance-free environment for teens.  She is also active in local politics and spent five months volunteering with the finance staff for a local congressional campaign in 2016.

 

In June 2019, Jill graduated from Bergen Leads, a nine-month leadership development program sponsored by the Bergen Volunteer Center that exposes approximately 30 Bergen-based employees and residents to the county’s government, healthcare, education and non-profit sectors.

 

Jill has been volunteering at BCHSJS weekly since 2016 and is pleased with the enriching classes and stimulating social activities her younger daughter has enjoyed while she has interacted with a wonderful group of parents and the school’s committed staff and teachers.