Five Los Angeles educators received $10,000 Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Awards at ceremonies this week.
The award winners are kindergarten teacher Deborah Norwood from the Stephen S. Wise School in Los Angeles; librarian Susan Dubin from the Valley Beth Shalom School in Encino; Rabbi Laurence Scheindlin, headmaster of Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles; fourth-grade teacher Joan Cohen from Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, and teacher Shira Smiles from Yeshiva University of Los Angeles Girls High School.
