Jody Hirsh, director of Judaic education at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Milwaukee, has been chosen to receive the Morton L. Mandel Jewish Educational Leadership Award.
The award is given by the national JCC Association and will be presented to Hirsh at the JCCs of North America Biennial Convention in San Diego on March 30.
Since 1998, the Mandel Award has been given biennially to an individual or an institution that has made a singular contribution to the enhancement of Jewish education in Jewish community centers and JCC camps.
Prior to joining the Samson JCC in 1999, Hirsh taught Jewish studies at the University of California (both the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses), Mills College, the University of San Francisco, the Los Angeles University of Judaism and Hebrew Union College.
In the fall of 1990 through the winter of 1992, he was a Jerusalem Fellow, concentrating on museum education at the Israel Museum and the Citadel Museum, with post-graduate work at the Hebrew University. For three years, he served as program director of the Hong Kong Jewish Community Centre. He is also a playwright and musician.
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