Volunteers Recognized at Westchester Jewish Council Ceremony

More than 450 people turned out March 2 to honor 20 volunteers at the 21st annual Julian Y. Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards.

The ceremony was held at the JCC of Harrison.

Honorees received awards for their service from members of the JYBDSA Committee.

The program also included a special memorial tribute to Noah Rockowitz, an executive board member of the Westchester Jewish Council.

The 2016 recipients and their nominating organizations were as follows:

• New York City resident Joan Muss, Alexander Muss High School
• Larchmont residents Joan Rosen, Bet Am Shalom Synagogue and Ed Jacobson, Larchmont Temple
• New Rochelle resident Donna Bartell, Beth El Synagogue Center
• White Plains residents Gary Katz, Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemeteries, Ross Zelman, Solomon Schechter School of Westchester and Jerry Adler, Young Israel of White Plains
• Cortlandt Manor resident Daniela Rosen, First Hebrew Congregation
• Irvington resident Sherry Padva, Greenburgh Hebrew Center
• Ardsley resident Deborah Wiskind, Hadassah Westchester
• Brewster resident Amy Post, Hebrew Congregation of Somers
• Scarsdale residents Stephanie Kirwan, JCC Mid-Westchester and Karen Chapro, Scarsdale Synagogue
• Mount Kisco resident Sol Gibbons, Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation
• Rye Brook resident Eugene Konigsbach, Northeast Jewish Center
• Pleasantville resident Vivian Chang Freiheit, Pleasantville Community Synagogue
• Mount Vernon resident Elizabeth Shapiro, Rabbi Max Maccoby Foundation
• Rye resident Andrew Kligerman, StandWithUS
• Katonah resident Hana Epstein, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism/USY
• Bronxville resident Arnold Linhardt, Westchester Jewish Council

Photo caption: Front row: Vivian Chang-Freiheit, Joan Muss, Sol Gibbons, Joan Rosen, Eugene Konigsbach, Elizabeth Spiro. Middle row: Elliot Forchheimer, Executive Director, Westchester Jewish Council, Jerry Adler, Ed Jacobson, Karen Chapro, Sherry Padva, Deborah Wiskind, Hana Epstein, Stephanie Kirwan, Donna Bartell. Top row: Ross Zelman, Gary Katz, Daniela Rosen, Andrew Kligerman, Arnold Linhardt, Amy Post, Paul Warhit. Photo credit: Will Landin.