2023 Award Winners
Mazel tov to all the educators on these awards!
Lifetime Impact Award
Dr. Sherry Blumberg
CJL Levy Family Jewish Educator of the Year Award
Marilyn Franklin
Congregation Shalom
Jerry Benjamin Inspiration Award for Informal Education
Toni Davison Levenberg
Steve and Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC
Gill Incentive for Teachers (GIFT Award)
Towards Inclusion- Jewish Disability Awareness Month:
Stephanie Brauner
Bader Hillel Academy
Leah Stein
Friendship Circle
Jewish Studies elective class on Israel’s declaration of Independence:
Moria Lehman
Milwaukee Jewish Day School
Teacher Impact Award and School Support Award
Bader Hillel Academy
Judy Pierson, Teacher Impact Award
Lesley Boaz-Sharon, School Support Award
Bader Hillel High
Rabbi Dovid Rechavel, Teacher Impact Award
Mitchell Lechter, School Support Award
Chabad Hebrew School of Glendale & River Hills
Leah Berendt, Teacher Impact Award
Congregation Beth El, Sheboygan
Craig Buechel, School Support Award
Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid School of Jewish Studies
Jacob Rosenberg, Teacher Impact Award
Terri Gingold, School Support Award
Congregation Emanu El B’ne Jeshurun
Beth Clement, Teacher Impact Award
Michael Saldana, School Support Award
Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha
Cantor Martin Levson, Teacher Impact Award
Elizabeth Hamlin, School Support Award
Congregation Shalom
Erica Fishbach, Teacher Impact Award
Justin Altman, School Support Award
Congregation Sinai
Cindy Cooper, Teacher Impact Award
Jeri Danz, School Support Award
Gan Ami Early Childhood Education Program
Rachel Wittliff, Teacher Impact Award
Cindy Gorman, Teacher Impact Award
Jewish Beginnings Lubavitch Preschool
Pam Goldner, Teacher Impact Award
Janine Bridgford, School Support Award
Mequon Jewish Preschool
Courtney Dandy, Teacher Impact Award
Janet Levy, School Support Award
Queenie Weesen, School Support Award
Milwaukee Community Hebrew School
Sarah Miriam Fuchs, Teacher Impact Award
Shoshana Levy, School Support Award
Milwaukee Jewish Day School
Karin Damico, Teacher Impact Award
Doug Haaning, School Support Award
Pelz Hebrew School
Chana Feller, Teacher Impact Award
Chaya Goldstein, School Support Award
Torah Academy of Milwaukee
Shulamis Halpern, Teacher Impact Award
Beth Meister, School Support Award
Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study
Amelia Schmidt l’z, School Support Award
Yeshiva Elementary School
Emily Lohr, Teacher Impact Award
Gilah Saltzman, Teacher Impact Award
Esther Bulgatz, School Support Award
Chai Award
Lora Vexler
Stephanie Brauner
Debbie Intravaia
Double Chai Award
Susie Rosengarten
BINAH Cohort
Carrie Barbakoff
Dena Krinsky
Michelle Petrova
Heather Spencer
Jennifer Walker
