The merit awards, funded by Fran and Saul Singer of White Plains and administered by UJA-Federation, help offset the cost of Israel programs for high school teens. The teens were nominated for these merit awards by their synagogues or a UJA-Federation network agency and were required to develop community service projects.
Local scholarship recipients include:
- Joseph Block of White Plains.
- Joshua Bloom of New Rochelle.
- Doreen Blum of New Rochelle.
- Sara Butman of New Rochelle.
- Emily Goldberg of Amawalk.
- Sydney Goodman of Rye Brook.
- Jake Klaristenfeld of Scarsdale.
- Hadas Krasner of New Rochelle.
- Alexandra Lefkowitz of Mohegan Lake.
- Ayelet Marder of White Plains.
- Sophia Peister of New Rochelle.
- Sydney Penn of Chappaqua.
- Maya Pickar of Tarrytown.
- David Rosenberg of Rye Brook.
- Jacob Roth of Croton-on-Hudson.
- Alyssa Schwartz of White Plains.
- Zohra Shaukat of Croton-on-Hudson.
- Joseph Tenner of Rye.
- Max Wattenmaker of Bedford.
- Emma Weiner of Tarrytown.
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