Rabbi Matityahu Clark, a lifelong educator, served in principal director positions in Montreal, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Washington. He is one of the founders of the Educational Council of America and former president of the Council for Jewish Education. In 1988 Rabbi Clark retired from his position as Director of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington and made aliyah (emigrated to Israel). He resides in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Clark’s interest in the work of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was sparked by his father, who studied in Frankfurt in the early 1900s at the behest of his father, the Dayan of Kovno.