White Plains Residents Honored By Jewish Council

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester Jewish Council will recognize 19 outstanding community volunteers — including three from White Plains — at the 2018 Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, 2018. It will be held at the Temple Israel Center of White Plains, 280 Mamaroneck Road in White Plains.

The award is named after Julian Y. Bernstein, a former Westchester Jewish Council board member, who was a visionary communal leader.

“This evening is an opportunity for the Westchester Jewish Council, the connecting body for 160 Jewish organizations across Westchester, to honor a very special group of individuals who make their own communities stronger through their volunteerism and dedication,” said Lisa Roberts, president of the Westchester Jewish Council.

The 2018 recipients and their nominating organizations are:

• New Rochelle resident, Ron Burton, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
• White Plains resident, Bobbi Baker, Bet Am Shalom Synagogue
• New Rochelle resident Mark Silver, Beth El Synagogue of New Rochelle
• White Plains residents Stephen and Joan Kass, Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester
• Briarcliff Manor resident Fred Shulman, Congregation Sons of Israel Briarcliff
• Harrison resident Steven Chill, Congregation Sulam Yaakov
• Cortlandt Manor resident Mark Stern, First Hebrew Congregation
• Scarsdale resident Deborah S.K. Jagoda, Greenburgh Hebrew Center
• Yorktown Heights resident Robert Fischer, Hebrew Congregation of Somers
• Rye resident Jonathan Franklin, Hillels of Westchester
• Mount Kisco resident Edward Sperling, Pleasantville Community Synagogue
• Scarsdale resident Adar Gurvitch, Solomon Schechter School of Westchester
• Scarsdale resident David Shatz, StandWithUs
• Brewster resident Evelyn Cohen, Temple Beth Elohim
• Mahopac resident Joel Greenberg, Temple Beth Shalom
• Briarcliff resident Richard Leroy, Temple Shaaray Tefila of Westchester
• Mount Kisco resident Mindy Unger, Tzahal Shalom of Norther Westchester
• New Rochelle resident Marc Klee, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism – METNY
• New Rochelle resident Sarra Lorbert, Westchester Day School

The evening will include a kosher dairy dessert reception. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at www.wjcouncil.org.

The Westchester Jewish Council connects Westchester's Jewish communities and strengthens relationships among Jewish organizations and other ethnic and faith-based groups, elected officials, Israel and the community at large, according to a spokesperson. For more information, visit www.wjcouncil.org.

Image via Westchester Jewish Council.