Jody Hirsh, who recently retired after serving 23 years as the Judaic Education Director at Milwaukee’s Harry & Rose Samson Jewish Community Center, is an award-winning Jewish Educator, including the Covenant Award for Outstanding North American Jewish Educator in 2005, and the Morton L. Mandel Jewish Educational Leadership Award of the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America in 2014. He also served as Program Director of the Hong Kong Jewish Community Centre and has taught at UC Berkeley and UCLA, Mills College and the University of San Francisco, the University of Judaism, and Hebrew Union College in LA. In 1990-92, he was a Jerusalem Fellow, concentrating on Museum Education at the Israel Museum and the Citadel Museum, with postgraduate work at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.