Rabbi Simcha Tolwin is Director of Aish Detroit. A native Detroiter, he studied at Yeshiva Beth Yehuda in Detroit and then for seven years at Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, where he earned a Bachelors of Talmudic Law. Simcha then moved to Israel to study at the Mir Yeshiva and at Aish Jerusalem where he received rabbinic ordination. In 1998, Simcha went to work at Aish New York, where he launched and implemented innovative educational programs such as SpeedDating, Aish Connection and a college outreach program in conjunction with Hillel. Simcha and his wife, Estie, have five beautiful children.