Posted By  richards on October 24, 2013    
				
				Los Angeles    
    October 24, 2013  
    By Ryan    Torok  
    Osnat Bernstein of Abraham Joshua Heschel Day    Schoolwas one of four recipients of this year's Jewish    Educator Award. Courtesy of the Milken Family    Foundation.  
    Four educators at area Jewish schools were awarded $15,000    Milken Jewish Educator Awards by the Milken Family    Foundation earlier this month.  
    The annual prizes this year went to Deborah    Raskin, principal at Or HaChaim Academy, an Orthodox    elementary and middle school in North Hollywood; Mickey    Rabinov, a Hebrew and Judaic studies teacher and    administrator at Beth Hillel Day School in Valley Village;    Osnat Bernstein, a middle school Hebrew    teacher at Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School in Northridge; and    Benny Ferdman, founding artistic director and    visual arts teacher at New Community Jewish High School in West    Hills.  
    The prize, which comes with the hefty, unrestricted cash award    for each recipient, recognizes outstanding teachers,    administrators and other education professionals in the Greater    Los Angeles area who work at day schools affiliated with    BJEBuilders of Jewish Education. The award was established in    1990.  
    BJE executive director Gil Graff, along with    Richard Sandler, executive vice president of    the Milken Family Foundation, which promotes education and    medical research, surprised the four local educators during    school assemblies at each campus on Oct. 15.  
    The Jewish Educator Awards call upon others in the profession    to emulate the high standards of those we honor today     educators whose intelligence, scholarship, creativity and    compassion help guide children to greater success, while    preserving the heritage that gives meaning to that success,    Sandler wrote in a statement.  
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Moving and Shaking: Milken Jewish Educator Awards and USCJ conference
				
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