Nedra and Mark Oren

Nedra and Mark Oren

Nedra and Mark Oren

Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

Nedra and Mark Oren

Nedra and Mark were born and raised in small cities in upstate New York (Schenectady and Catskill home phone 22), where our parents were active in local Jewish and community affairs. We went to northeastern colleges, and after being introduced by the same aunt who introduced Mark’s parents, were married in 1963 after Nedra graduated from college and Mark had finished his first year in medical school. We lived together in Boston for five years finishing medical school, internship and first year residency at Harvard (baby #1 Brad); then spent two years on active duty as a Commander in the United States Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health outside of Washington, DC (baby #2 Sara). Two years at Yale (baby #3 Jill) convinced us to move to Florida, where after a year at the University of Miami, Mark cofounded a hematology/oncology practice that now has 22 active members. Mark has been chief of the Department of Medicine at the Doctor’s Hospital and chair of numerous committees there and at Baptist and South Miami Hospitals. The first thing we did in Miami was join Temple Beth Am in 1972, a happy Jewish home for us. Mark served on the boards and executive committees of Beth Am and of the Union for Reform Judaism for 20 years. He was also President of the South Dade Branch of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and has

been a board member and officer for the Federation for 30 years. He has been a perennial learner and teacher as Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Miami Medical School (three ex-students in his old practice) and as docent, docent president and board member of the Perez Art Museum of Miami.

Nedra has been very active in the community. She was President of the Pinecrest Elementary PTA, first woman President/Chair of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and is now a Life Trustee. She was a multi term President of what is now the Perez Art Museum Miami (at present a Board member), and recipient of the Silver Medallion of the MCCJ. She sits on the Board of the Miami Music Project. In her spare time she has become a Bronze Life Master in contract bridge.

Mark and Nedra Oren on their wedding day

Our children attended Beth Am religious school, where all were Bnai Mitzvah (including one on a Federation family mission to Israel). We have six grandchildren; one a Ph.D candidate in neurobiology at Yale, one an entering freshman at Wake Forest University and four in high school. All attended Jewish Day School. We are fortunate to spend summers in Aspen, CO where we belong to a reform synagogue. We’ve been blessed with the leadership of the late Mike Brodie and the awesome Jacob Solomon as our Federation mentors. May we all go from strength to strength.

Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

Oren Family

Temple Beth Am AND Rambam Day School

Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation