7:30pm

4 Nisan 5781 Nisan 4

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 16, March Tuesday,

AWARDS CEREMONY AWARDS

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE DISTINGUISHED

JULIAN Y. BERNSTEIN Y. JULIAN

ANNUAL th 26

WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL Connect Here®

Academy for Jewish Religion Hebrew Free Loan Society Sanctuary ACHI - American Communities Helping Israel Hebrew Institute of White Plains Scarsdale Synagogue - Temples - Tremont AIPAC - American Israel Public Affairs Committee HIAS and Emanu-El AJC Westchester/Fairfield Hillels of Westchester Shaarei Tikvah Ameinu, Project Rozana Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Shalom Hartman Institute of North America American Friends of Magen David Adom ImpactIsrael Shames JCC on the Hudson American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Israel) Sinai Free Synagogue American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Israel Policy Forum Students & Parents Against Campus American Zionist Movement (AZM) J Street Anti-Semitism (SPACA) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) JCCA Sprout Westchester Areyvut The Jewish Board StandWithUs BBYO Westchester Region Jewish Broadcasting Services (JBS) Stein Yeshiva of Lincoln Park Bet Am Shalom Synagogue Jewish Community Center of Harrison Temple Beth Abraham Bet Torah Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester Temple Beth Am Beth El Synagogue Center Jewish Community Council of Mt. Vernon Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester The Blue Card Jewish Deaf (and Hard-of-Hearing) Resource Temple Beth El – Danbury Bronx Jewish Community Council, Inc Center Temple Beth Shalom - Hastings Camp Zeke The Jewish Education Project Temple Beth Shalom - Mahopac Chabad Center for Jewish Life of the Rivertowns Jewish National Fund of Temple Israel Center of White Plains Chabad of Bedford Westchester & Southern CT Temple Israel of New Rochelle Chabad Lubavitch of Larchmont and Mamaroneck Jewish Theological Seminary Temple Israel of Northern Westchester Chavurat Tikvah Justice Brandeis Westchester Law Society Temple Shaaray Tefila of Westchester Children’s Jewish Education Group Keren Or, Inc. Temple Sholom Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Keshet Touro College of Dental Medicine Cemeteries (CAJAC) Kol Hazzanim: Westchester Community of Cantors at NY Medical College CSS – Community Security Service Kol Rinah, The Jewish Chorale of Westchester Tzahal Shalom of Northern Westchester Community Synagogue of Rye Larchmont Temple UJA-Federation of NY/Westchester Congregation Anshe Sholom The Leffell School Union for Reform Judaism Congregation B’nai Yisrael Lincoln Park Jewish Center United Hebrew of New Rochelle Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester Magen David Sephardic Synagogue United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - METNY Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel (KTI) Mishkan Ha’am Westchester Board of Rabbis Congregation Kol Ami MJHS Health System Westchester Community for Humanistic Judaism Congregation Shir Shalom Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation of Westchester and Fairfield Counties Moving Traditions Westchester Day School Congregation Sons of Israel - Briarcliff New Israel Fund Westchester Hebrew High School Congregation Sons of Israel - Yonkers New Jewish Home - Sarah Neuman Westchester Jewish Center Congregation Sulam Yaakov New Rochelle Jewish Coalition Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) DOROT New York Medical College Westchester Klezmer Program First Hebrew Congregation Northeast Jewish Center Westchester Reform Temple Fleetwood Synagogue Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies Westchester/Fairfield Association of Temple Educators (WATE) Friends of Israel Scouts - Tzofim Pelham Jewish Center Woodlands Community Temple Friends of the Israel Defense Forces PJ Library The Workers Circle Greenburgh Hebrew Center Plaza Jewish Community Chapel Yorktown Jewish Center Hadar Pleasantville Community Synagogue Young Israel of Harrison Hadassah - Westchester Region Rabbi Max Maccoby Foundation Young Israel of New Rochelle Hazon RiverSpring Health Featuring the Young Israel of Scarsdale Hebrew Congregation of Somers Hebrew Home at Riverdale Young Israel of White Plains Hebrew Free Burial Association Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns

* As of December 2020 26th Annual Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards Ceremony 2021/5781

AJC Westchester/Fairfield ...... Richard W. Cohen Bet Torah ...... Dr. Jill Ratner Beth El Synagogue Center ...... Brian P. Bosworth Community Synaogue of Rye ...... Dr. Bruce Reidenberg Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester ...... Hedy Cardozo Congregation Kol Ami...... Elizabeth Ilberg Dorot ...... Monica Aboodi Greenburgh Hebrew Center ...... Andrew Michael Goldstein, MD Hadar ...... David J. Gilberg Hebrew Free Burial Association ...... Wendy Linderman Hebrew Home of Riverdale ...... Isaac Ohrenstein Hebrew Institute of White Plains ...... Rena Fredman JCCA ...... Wendy Kleinman Jewish Education Project ...... Karen Everett Larchmont Temple ...... Michele Metsch The Leffell School ...... Jerry Goldman Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation ...... Robin Tanzman Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns ...... Rabbi Halina Rubinstein Shaarei Tikvah ...... Judith L. Spanier StandWithUs ...... Paula Blumenfeld Temple Beth Shalom - Mahopac...... Andy Milkis Temple Israel Center of White Plains ...... Judah Aber UJA Federation of NY/Westchester ...... Lily Deitelzweig Westchester Jewish Center ...... Cindy Heller Westchester Jewish Council ...... Irwin S. Davison Young Israel of New Rochelle ...... Tamar Weinberg

The Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Award is named after Julian Y. Bernstein (z”l), a former Westchester Jewish Council board member, who was a visionary communal leader. In tribute to his passion and devotion to the Jewish community, we honor those who follow in his footsteps.

Westchester Jewish Council proudly invites you as we honor the Jewish community’s outstanding volunteers

at the

Presentation of the 26th Annual Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards

This virTual evenT is free and open To all

regisTer aT www.wjcouncil.org/whaT-we-do/signaTure-programs/

afTer regisTering, you will receive a confirmaTion email conTaining viewing informaTion

Honor the Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Recipients If you would like to make a donation to the Westchester Jewish Council in recognition of an award recipient, we will be including congratulatory ads in the program that will be forwarded by email and available online at www.wjcouncil.org. Ads are available in a range of prices. To place an ad in the program please go to www.wjcouncil.org or contact Donna at [email protected] or 914-328-7001. Your support is gratefully appreciated and is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. 925 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604 • (914) 328-7001 • [email protected]

WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL Connect Here® 26th Annual Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards Ceremony 2021/5781

AJC Westchester/Fairfield ...... Richard W. Cohen Bet Torah ...... Dr. Jill Ratner Beth El Synagogue Center ...... Brian P. Bosworth Community Synaogue of Rye ...... Dr. Bruce Reidenberg Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester ...... Hedy Cardozo Congregation Kol Ami...... Elizabeth Ilberg Dorot ...... Monica Aboodi Greenburgh Hebrew Center ...... Andrew Michael Goldstein, MD Hadar ...... David J. Gilberg Hebrew Free Burial Association ...... Wendy Linderman Hebrew Home of Riverdale ...... Isaac Ohrenstein Hebrew Institute of White Plains ...... Rena Fredman JCCA ...... Wendy Kleinman Jewish Education Project ...... Karen Everett Larchmont Temple ...... Michele Metsch The Leffell School ...... Jerry Goldman Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation ...... Robin Tanzman Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns ...... Rabbi Halina Rubinstein Shaarei Tikvah ...... Judith L. Spanier StandWithUs ...... Paula Blumenfeld Temple Beth Shalom - Mahopac...... Andy Milkis Temple Israel Center of White Plains ...... Judah Aber UJA Federation of NY/Westchester ...... Lily Deitelzweig Westchester Jewish Center ...... Cindy Heller Westchester Jewish Council ...... Irwin S. Davison Young Israel of New Rochelle ...... Tamar Weinberg

The Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Award is named after Julian Y. Bernstein (z”l), a former Westchester Jewish Council board member, who was a visionary communal leader. In tribute to his passion and devotion to the Jewish community, we honor those who follow in his footsteps.

Westchester Jewish Council proudly invites you as we honor the Jewish community’s outstanding volunteers

at the

Presentation of the 26th Annual Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards

This virTual evenT is free and open To all

regisTer aT www.wjcouncil.org/whaT-we-do/signaTure-programs/

afTer regisTering, you will receive a confirmaTion email conTaining viewing informaTion

Honor the Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Recipients If you would like to make a donation to the Westchester Jewish Council in recognition of an award recipient, we will be including congratulatory ads in the program that will be forwarded by email and available online at www.wjcouncil.org. Ads are available in a range of prices. To place an ad in the program please go to www.wjcouncil.org or contact Donna at [email protected] or 914-328-7001. Your support is gratefully appreciated and is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. 925 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604 • (914) 328-7001 • [email protected]

WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL Connect Here®

7:30pm

4 Nisan 5781 Nisan 4

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 16, March Tuesday,

AWARDS CEREMONY AWARDS

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE DISTINGUISHED

JULIAN Y. BERNSTEIN Y. JULIAN

ANNUAL th 26

WESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL Connect Here®

Academy for Jewish Religion Hebrew Free Loan Society Sanctuary ACHI - American Communities Helping Israel Hebrew Institute of White Plains Scarsdale Synagogue - Temples - Tremont AIPAC - American Israel Public Affairs Committee HIAS and Emanu-El AJC Westchester/Fairfield Hillels of Westchester Shaarei Tikvah Ameinu, Project Rozana Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center Shalom Hartman Institute of North America American Friends of Magen David Adom ImpactIsrael Shames JCC on the Hudson American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Israel) Sinai Free Synagogue American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Israel Policy Forum Students & Parents Against Campus American Zionist Movement (AZM) J Street Anti-Semitism (SPACA) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) JCCA Sprout Westchester Areyvut The Jewish Board StandWithUs BBYO Westchester Region Jewish Broadcasting Services (JBS) Stein Yeshiva of Lincoln Park Bet Am Shalom Synagogue Jewish Community Center of Harrison Temple Beth Abraham Bet Torah Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester Temple Beth Am Beth El Synagogue Center Jewish Community Council of Mt. Vernon Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester The Blue Card Jewish Deaf (and Hard-of-Hearing) Resource Temple Beth El – Danbury Bronx Jewish Community Council, Inc Center Temple Beth Shalom - Hastings Camp Zeke The Jewish Education Project Temple Beth Shalom - Mahopac Chabad Center for Jewish Life of the Rivertowns Jewish National Fund of Temple Israel Center of White Plains Chabad of Bedford Westchester & Southern CT Temple Israel of New Rochelle Chabad Lubavitch of Larchmont and Mamaroneck Jewish Theological Seminary Temple Israel of Northern Westchester Chavurat Tikvah Justice Brandeis Westchester Law Society Temple Shaaray Tefila of Westchester Children’s Jewish Education Group Keren Or, Inc. Temple Sholom Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Keshet Touro College of Dental Medicine Cemeteries (CAJAC) Kol Hazzanim: Westchester Community of Cantors at NY Medical College CSS – Community Security Service Kol Rinah, The Jewish Chorale of Westchester Tzahal Shalom of Northern Westchester Community Synagogue of Rye Larchmont Temple UJA-Federation of NY/Westchester Congregation Anshe Sholom The Leffell School Union for Reform Judaism Congregation B’nai Yisrael Lincoln Park Jewish Center United Hebrew of New Rochelle Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester Magen David Sephardic Synagogue United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - METNY Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel (KTI) Mishkan Ha’am Westchester Board of Rabbis Congregation Kol Ami MJHS Health System Westchester Community for Humanistic Judaism Congregation Shir Shalom Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation of Westchester and Fairfield Counties Moving Traditions Westchester Day School Congregation Sons of Israel - Briarcliff New Israel Fund Westchester Hebrew High School Congregation Sons of Israel - Yonkers New Jewish Home - Sarah Neuman Westchester Jewish Center Congregation Sulam Yaakov New Rochelle Jewish Coalition Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) DOROT New York Medical College Westchester Klezmer Program First Hebrew Congregation Northeast Jewish Center Westchester Reform Temple Fleetwood Synagogue Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies Westchester/Fairfield Association of Temple Educators (WATE) Friends of Israel Scouts - Tzofim Pelham Jewish Center Woodlands Community Temple Friends of the Israel Defense Forces PJ Library The Workers Circle Greenburgh Hebrew Center Plaza Jewish Community Chapel Yorktown Jewish Center Hadar Pleasantville Community Synagogue Young Israel of Harrison Hadassah - Westchester Region Rabbi Max Maccoby Foundation Young Israel of New Rochelle Hazon RiverSpring Health Featuring the Young Israel of Scarsdale Hebrew Congregation of Somers Hebrew Home at Riverdale Young Israel of White Plains Hebrew Free Burial Association Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns

* As of December 2020