The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston’s Board of Jewish Education named Rivka Fishman, a 10-year veteran teacher at the Torah Day School run by Chabad-Lubavitch of Texas, as the winner of its 2009 Irving L. Samuels Outstanding Teacher Award for Judaic Studies.

Fishman, who runs the school’s Girls Organization, will be heading Torah Day School’s middle and high school girls’ division next year.

The award will be presented during a ceremony on May 20. …