Dr. Ruth Pinken­son Feld­man is an inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized Jew­ish ear­ly-child­hood edu­ca­tor. Dr. Ruth Pinken­son Feld­man is an inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized Jew­ish ear­ly-child­hood edu­ca­tor. As Direc­tor of Ear­ly Child­hood Edu­ca­tion for the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ters of North Amer­i­ca, she cre­at­ed An Eth­i­cal Start, the JCCA’s val­ues devel­op­ment cur­ricu­lum based on Pirkei Avot. She is a Covenent Award win­ner and a Jerusalem Fellow.