The Chronicle
Fall 2012
Page 23
Prizes
The
American Jewish Distinguished
Service Award
was presented to
Metuka Benjamin
,
Director of
Education, Stephen S. Wise Temple
&
Schools and Milken Community
High School, Los Angeles, at Gradua-
tion in Los Angeles, May 14, 2012.
The
Sherut La-Am Award
was
presented to
Rivka Dori, MAHE
,
Director Emerita of Hebrew
Studies, HUC-JIR/Jack H. Skirball
Campus/Los Angeles, at Gradua-
tion in Los Angeles, May 14, 2012.
The
American Jewish
Distinguished Service Award
was presented to
Larry Moses,
Senior Philanthropic Advisor and
President Emeritus, The Wexner
Foundation, at Graduation in
Cincinnati, June 3, 2012
.
The
American Jewish Distin-
guished Service Award
was
presented to
Gail Twersky Reimer,
Ph.D.
,
Executive Director, Jewish
Women’s Archive at Graduation in
New York, May 3, 2012.
The 2012
Roger E. Joseph Prize
was presented
to
Edesia Global Nutrition Solutions
and
accepted by
Navyn Salem,
Executive Director
(
center), by the daughters of Roger E. Joseph:
(
from left) Ellen Joseph, Roxanne Leopold,
and Linda Karshan at Ordination in New York,
May 6, 2012:
Ellen Joseph:
Navyn Salem has a sacred
mission: to eradicate the malnutrition that is
afflicting those most vulnerable in the develop-
ing world. Her vision has brought forth Edesia
Global Nutrition Solutions, a non-profit producer
of ready-to-use foods that is based in Providence,
Rhode Island. Through the production and
distribution of these life-giving, nutritional
resources, Edesia is giving children and other
vulnerable populations the life-saving tools
to survive and thrive.
The 2012
Dr. Bernard Heller Prize
was awarded by Ruth O. Freedlander,
Co-Trustee of the Dr. Bernard Heller Foundation, to
Stumbling Stones
and its co-creator
Gunter Demnig
at Graduation in New York, May 3,
2012.
Stumbling Stones memorializes the Jewish victims of the
Holocaust and sustains awareness of the consequences of Nazism’s
genocide.
Ruth O. Freedlander:
Sculptor Gunter Demnig came up with an ingenious
way to compel contemporary Germans to remember the past. Small
bronze cobblestones would be inscribed with the names, birthdates,
and places and dates of death for Jews, and situated in front of the
buildings where Jews had once lived. These
stolpersteine
–
stumbling
stones – would literally stop people in their tracks and confront them
with the erased history of the Jewish victims of mass murder. Today,
over 25,000 of these memorial cobblestones can be found on the
sidewalks of 600 cities in Germany and across Europe. Each individual
stone – symbolic of each single life – restores the identity of some of the
Jews who were reduced to anonymity among the six million victims of the
Nazis’ Final Solution. Each stone teaches all of us today of the ultimate
consequences of intolerance, injustice, and indifference.
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