NCJW Awards Scholarships to Seven Outstanding Young Jewish Women

Seven spectacularly deserving young Jewish women were recently awarded $1,000 endowed college scholarships by National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section. In addition to academic achievement, each recipient demonstrated outstanding leadership and initiative in school and or community life as well as commitment to her Jewish heritage. The winners were introduced at a recent board meeting as their proud parents looked on.

The awardees are:

Leah Field of Northern Valley Regional High School who will attend Vanderbilt University and Rachel Gleyzer of the Academy of Science and Technology who will attend the University of Chicago, received the Marjorie G. Aerenson Memorial awards.

Danielle Mandelblatt of Northern Valley Regional High School who will be at the University of Michigan and Mikaela Rosen of Glen Rock High School who will be at Johns Hopkins University were given the Zimmerman Family Scholarships.

Inbar Tivon of Fair Lawn High School, who will be going to The University of Pennsylvania, received the Kabakow Family Scholarship,

Justine Laufer of Tenafly High School, who will be a student at the University of Chicago, received the Wolfeiler-Simon Scholarship.

Lauren Gerlin of River Dell High School who will matriculate at Penn State University, won the Boch Scholarship.

The NCJW BCS Scholarship Committee included; Evalyn Brownstein and Nan Matlick, chairs, and Peggy Kabakow, Liz Warms, Grace Fuld. Henrietta Wolfeiler, and Phyllis Grossman-Kaplan.

L-R: NCJW scholarship winners Justine Laufer, Lauren Gerlin, Leah Field, Inbar Tivon, Mikaela Rosen and Rachel Gleyzer. Not pictured: Danielle Mandelblatt.

L-R: Phyllis Grossman-Kaplan, Nan Matlick, Grace Fuld, Justine Laufer, Peggy Kabakow, Lauren Gerlin, Leah Field, Inbar Tivon, Mikaela Rosen, Rachel Gleyzer, Henrietta Wolfeiler, Liz Warms and Evalyn Brownstein.