Tag: Recognition and Awards
FBI honors Jewish Community Center President Mark Shapiro for response to bomb threats
WHITEFISH BAY - Nearly a year has passed since the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center received its first bomb threat, but JCC President Mark Shapiro still hasn't forgotten the support he...
Award season features notable Jewish actors, performers
Award season notes and asides
Almost everyone praised Seth Meyers for his skillful hosting of this year’s politically charged Golden Globe awards. Meyers appeared on “The Ellen Show” a few days before the Globes and...
Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust honoured in London
Jewish and Muslim leaders in Barnet have paid tribute to the Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust as part of the council’s Celebrate Interfaith Week.
An event at Middlesex University earlier this month heard...
History Professor Wins 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
University of San Diego History Professor Thomas Barton, PhD, has been selected to receive the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for the best book published in 2015 or 2016 on Medieval and Early Jewish...
Radio broadcaster wins award for boosting Jewish-Arab coexistence
Broadcaster Eran Singer has received an award for contributing to coexistence between Jews and Arabs by providing “balanced” coverage of the Arab minority in his weekly radio program Marchabet.
Both Singer and the show’s editor,...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins First Genesis Prize For Lifetime Achievement
The Genesis Prize Foundation awarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg its first lifetime achievement award.
The foundation, which sponsors the annual $1 million Genesis Prize known as the “Jewish Nobel,” in its announcement Wednesday...
Moral Courage: Mexico’s Former UNESCO Ambassador to receive Human Rights award
United Nations Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights group, announced today that Dr. Andres Roemer, the former Ambassador of Mexico to UNESCO, will be the recipient of its 2017 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award,...
Well-known leaders among New Mexico Humanitarian awards honorees
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque announced Monday the honorees for the 10th annual New Mexico Humanitarian Awards and the winner of the 18th annual Harold B. Albert Award and the 2017 Common Good Investing...
Nine local businesses, organizations to be honored for giving back to the community
Nine Long Beach businesses and community groups will be among 21 entities within state Senator Ricardo Lara’s 33rd District to be honored Wednesday in downtown Long Beach.
The Excellence in the 33rd District Awards will...
New Jewish youth center honors respected community leader
San Antonio’s Congregation Agudas Achim broke ground Sunday on a new youth center to provide a place for area teens to gather and socialize.
The Kavy Youth Center is named in honor of Cary Kavy, who died...