Dr. Epstein has been active in every aspect of Jewish education, formal and informal. From 1973 to 1978, he was an assistant professor at McGill University, where he directed the Jewish Teacher Training Program of Montreal.

In 1981, Dr. Epstein moved to Morocco to become the educational consultant for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Casablanca. During his eighteen years of JDC work, he was active in Morocco, Western Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. He served the JDC as Director of Jewish Education and was responsible for community development in Siberia, Russia.

For the ten years from 1999 to 2009, Epi was the director of Toronto’s Board of Jewish Education at the UJA Federation. In 2009, his first book, From Couscous to Kasha: Reporting From the Field of Jewish Community Work, was published by Urim Publications. The Esther Scroll: The Author’s Tale was published by Mosaic Press in 2019. Dr. Epstein recalls how he graduated from Grade Nine at AHS in 1960. “There was no CHAT yet, so I ended up in a public high school. It immediately became apparent how special my ten years at Associated were. The single most important element at AHS was Ivrit b’Ivrit. That fluency influenced all of my further education beyond high school. And it was the cornerstone of my ultimate career in Jewish education.”

Epi consults in the field of Jewish education and community planning. He and his wife Cheryl have two children, Yoni and Sarit.