Aish Campus DC

Rabbi Scott Mathias

Rabbi Mathias was born with a great boom on the fourth of July in Buffalo Grove, IL, a suburb of Chicago. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated with a degree in Bachelors of Business Administration and psychology. After graduation he decided to take a trip to Jerusalem to explore his Jewish roots. He was inspired. Seven years later Scott Mathias became officially “Rabbi” Mathias and moved to Washington DC to become the Director of AishCampus DC. He looks forward to meeting you! E-mail Rabbi Mathias at smathias@aish.com.


	Ilana Mathias Ilana is a hometown girl raised in Bethesda, MD 20817. She likes a good adventure and has always preferred the back roads to the highway. When she was younger, she decided to become an anthropological author (after reading Clan of the Cave Bear). While she did take many writing classes at the University of Maryland, and even a few anthropology classes, she graduated instead with a
BA in Dance. After graduation, Ilana went on to fulfill yet another life long dream to become a Montessori School teacher. In 2002 she graduated from Loyola College and the Washington Montessori Institute with a MA of Education and an Association Montessori International diploma. After a few years of teaching, Ilana went to Israel to fulfill, yes, another life long dream: to gain a deeper understanding of Judaism. While studying at the Shearim College for Women in Jerusalem, Ilana met Scott and, well, to make a long story short, they got married J (this is a good story … ask about the picture…) After two and a half glorious years of living in the Old City, Montessori-ing, writing, dancing and learning how to dodge people recklessly pushing speeding carts of bread to the shuk, Ilana is looking forward to another adventure. This time, much closer to home! If you want to hear more about Ilana’s adventures in band land or perhaps the record store shuffle you can email her at ilanadora@yahoo.com. (please, also feel free to ask questions that don’t have to do with the aforementioned topics.)

Gila Leah Mathias

Gila was born on May 2nd in Jerusalem. She loves to play with toys, eat mashed bananas, and laugh. (She also enjoys strolling on the beach and reciting poetryJ). So far, she has gained an amazing number of skills in an extremely short amount of time. When once she could not hold up her head, look around, see colors, or for the most part do anything besides allow us to take care of her, she now rolls around, laughs, and says “Gee Gee Gee” and whispers “ush ush” and much much

more. We love her very much and we are sure you will too. Gila urges you to email her with any of your burning questions about life at GilaGoose@hotmail.com.

Dana T. Sicherman
Program Coordinator, Aish on Campus Washington DC

Dana was born in the mean streets of Rockland County (a fancy way of saying Monsey), New York on October twenty-second. Her birth radically changed the neighborhood … for the better. Stores opened, children danced through the streets, and mothers baked pies. Men played chess in the park, and the Jews of the area finally agreed on something.

Dana's journey from Monsey took her to American University, where she majored in International Relations and spent a semester abroad in Israel at Hebrew University. Last summer over a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies Dana met her husband Max Sicherman. They were married amidst great fanfare this past September second in the very town that Dana had helped to turn around. The couple now lives in the Dupont Circle area in Washington D.C. and Dana is currently Program Coordinator for AishCampus DC at AU and George Mason University. Dana would love to meet you! Please email her at danasicherman@gmail.com.