Tag: Recognition and Awards

For 59 local students, the recent Eleanor A. Dunn Memorial Scholarship Breakfast, held at the Jewish Community Center, was a special event. In all, about 100 guests were on hand to honor the recipients of...

The Jewish Federation of Delaware has won an Award of Excellence in the 2017 APEX Awards, a competition that honors brochures, websites and annual reports. APEX presented the award to the Jewish Federation for its...

Ynet reporter Yaniv Pohoryles will receive on Wednesday the 2017 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage. Pohoryles, home page editor and writer for the Jewish World section of Ynet,...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has honored former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andrés Roemer for his “tireless work in defense of human rights,” at a ceremony in Mexico City. Roemer was fired in October 2016, after...

Author and historian Jack Fischel is best known as the founder of the Holocaust conference at Millersville University. That, by itself, is quite a legacy. But it is only part of who he is. Fischel, 79,...

Next Wednesday, Limmud, the international network of Jewish learning communities, will receive the Jerusalem Unity Prize in the global category. It is a great privilege to be recognised for our positive impact in the...

Hadassah Greater Atlanta recognized the recipients of the Marian F. Perling Hadassah Chesed (lovingkindness) Student Awards on Sunday afternoon, May 7, at Temple Emanu-El. The awards recognize students in Jewish day schools and synagogue schools...

More than 600 athletes participating in many sport teams were honored with certificates of merit and trophies at many ceremonies throughout the month of May at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in North...

I am a little envious of our Jewish kids. They can bake a beautiful challah in preschool, deliver a discourse on Maimonides in day school, and give a rousing call to action against injustice...