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Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, has received a new $16 million grant over five years from the Jim Joseph Foundation. The Foundation’s grant—the largest it has ever awarded—comes as Hillel begins its Drive to Excellence, which will help campuses and communities around the world implement the best practices for supporting Jewish student life. Pictured: Hillel CEO Eric Fingerhut. Photo by David Holzel
Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, has received a new $16 million grant over five years from the Jim Joseph Foundation. The Foundation’s grant—the largest it has ever awarded—comes as Hillel begins its Drive to Excellence, which will help campuses and communities around the world implement the best practices for supporting Jewish student life.
Pictured: Hillel CEO Eric Fingerhut. Photo by David Holzel
Ricardo Luis Cohen, the son of Cliff and Paula Cohen, was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Aug. 25 at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church. His brother, Martim, and sister, Sofia, celebrated with him. His maternal grandparents, Mateus and Aida de Brito, along with family, attended from Portugal. Anita Cohen, his paternal grandmother, and family from Virginia, Maryland and New York, were present, too. His grandfather, Lionel Cohen, died on June 13. Ricardo, a rising eighth grader at Williamsburg Middle School, represents the school annually by competing in Odyssey of the Mind, creative problem-solving competitions, an international educational program. He plays lacrosse with the Arlington Youth Lacrosse Club and regionally with Freedom LAX Youth Lacrosse Tournament Program. Ricardo’s enthusiasm for sports also involves playing recreational football, basketball and soccer. Ricardo aspires to be a TV sports journalist and broadcaster. For his mitzvah project, and in honor of his beloved and recently departed paternal grandfather, Lionel Cohen, Ricardo is raising money for CurePSP, to help raise awareness — to diagnose, treat and eventually cure the rare, neurodegenerative brain disease progressive supranuclear palsy.
Ricardo Luis Cohen, the son of Cliff and Paula Cohen, was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Aug. 25 at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church. His brother, Martim, and sister, Sofia, celebrated with him. His maternal grandparents, Mateus and Aida de Brito, along with family, attended from Portugal. Anita Cohen, his paternal grandmother, and family from Virginia, Maryland and New York, were present, too. His grandfather, Lionel Cohen, died on June 13.
Ricardo, a rising eighth grader at Williamsburg Middle School, represents the school annually by competing in Odyssey of the Mind, creative problem-solving competitions, an international educational program. He plays lacrosse with the Arlington Youth Lacrosse Club and regionally with Freedom LAX Youth Lacrosse Tournament Program. Ricardo’s enthusiasm for sports also involves playing recreational football, basketball and soccer. Ricardo aspires to be a TV sports journalist and broadcaster.
For his mitzvah project, and in honor of his beloved and recently departed paternal grandfather, Lionel Cohen, Ricardo is raising money for CurePSP, to help raise awareness — to diagnose, treat and eventually cure the rare, neurodegenerative brain disease progressive supranuclear palsy.
Rabbi Tamara Miller’s Tashlich/Shofar blowing Rosh Hashanah celebration ritual took place on Sept. 14 at the Georgetown Waterfront Park labyrinth. Blowing the shofar is her grandson, Eyal Yager, nine-year-old fourth grader at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax. Photo by Cookie Tager

Rabbi Tamara Miller’s Tashlich/Shofar blowing Rosh Hashanah celebration ritual took place on Sept. 14 at the Georgetown Waterfront Park labyrinth. Blowing the shofar is her grandson, Eyal Yager, nine-year-old fourth grader at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax.
Photo by Cookie Tager
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer addresses the crowd at the Ambassador’s Rosh Hashana reception on Sept. 10. Photo by Shmulik Almany
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer addresses the crowd at the Ambassador’s Rosh Hashana reception on Sept. 10.
Photo by Shmulik Almany
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