After three years at the Bat Ayin Yeshiva, Mordechai studied at Hebrew University's Melton center for Jewish Education and completed the Pardes Institute Educators' Program. He served as Director of Jewish Studies at New Community Jewish High School in Los Angeles for three years before returning to Israel. Mordechai is now working in education in the development town of Lod. He and his wife LIat live in Lod with their three children, Galia Chana, Yael Ita, and Avinoam Tuvia.
Mordechai writes: At Bat Ayin I internalized the message that my professional life needed to be directly involved with teaching, learning, and being an active member of Klal Yisrael. At Bat Ayin I studied and had the zechut to adopt a compelling and powerful Judaism that holistically embraces, modernity, goodness, Israel, Zionism , spirituality, learning, teaching, tikun olam, tefilah and everything else that's good! Whether it be mentoring students or taking with parents, or relations with faculty, every day I draw on the teachings and my learning and the power of my Bat Ayin experiences - that's of course true in my personal life as well. Despite the distance, I feel a special kinship with my rabayim. I often encounter an issue and to this day I find myself wondering how each of my Rabayim would have responded. Many times I think I know the answer, yet I am convinced they would be happy and proud that I formulated a view of my own, even if radically different from theirs. This, to my mind, is a testament to the strength of the Rebbe-Talmud relationships forged at Bat Ayin - relationships based not on dependence, but on mutual respect, genuine affinity and deep reflection.