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JEC celebrates excellence in education with six honorees

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The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland honored six local Jewish educators at its 31st annual Celebration and Educator Awards Ceremony recently in the Stonehill Auditorium at the Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland in Beachwood in front of colleagues, family and friends.

Beginning the ceremony, outgoing board president Jeffrey Wild thanked community organizations, including the Jewish Federation of Cleveland in Beachwood, for its support.

He also thanked those that work in the field –rabbis, heads of schools, teachers, volunteers and more – for the work they do every day.

“We value the work that you do every single day and we thank you for your wisdom, your commitment and your partnership,” Wild said in his opening speech.

Throughout the evening supporters of the organization gave speeches, with Rabbi Binyamin Blau of Green Road Synagogue in Beachwood and Federation President Erika

Marlyn Bloch Jaffe, CEO of the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, and Gary Gross, honorary trustee, pay tribute to Jeffrey Wild, president of the board of trustees for the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. | Photo / Cleveland Kesher

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B. Rudin-Luria highlighting the importance of Jewish education and the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland’s growth.

“A challenge, that I’m sure all of the educators in this room know very well, is when you’re excellent, you see more and more spaces where there are opportunities and more potential and more room to do more,” Rudin-Luria said. “Which is why all of you in this room, along with the JEC, have an ever-expanding agenda, and we’re just so appreciative of the fact that none of you, and certainly the JEC, does not shy away from challenge.”

Prior to the awards ceremony, Kevin Margolis, immediate past president of the board of trustees, gave the nominating report and treasurer Susan Krantz presented the financial report.

Wild also returned to discuss the future of Jewish education in the Cleveland area, highlighting grants the Jack, Joseph and

Rachel Glickman, left, chair of the awards committee, presents Estie Steinmetz, math and computer teacher at Yeshiva Derech Hatorah Girls High School in Cleveland Heights, the first of two of The RatnerGoldberg Fellowship, providing funding for study opportunities in Israel.

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Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation has given to transform the landscape, and announced the expansion of multiple programs, including the introduction of the Irving and Frieda J. Hand Jewish Endowment Fund supporting Jewish education.

Beginning the awards ceremony, Wild was honored with a tribute to his work with the organization from Gary Gross, an honorary trustee of the organization.

Rachel Glickman, chair of the awards committee and a teacher of Jewish history at Stark High School at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, introduced a video tribute to all six honorees during the awards ceremony.

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in Cleveland Heights, and Sarah Yurman, middle school Judaic teacher at the former Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, now Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood, were honored with The Ratner-Goldberg Fellowship, providing funding for study opportunities in Israel.

Shlomit Avisar Halfon, lower school Judaics teacher and middle school Hebrew language teacher at the Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School in Beachwood, received The Steiger Family Education Grant, offering funding for formal Judaic study.

Holly Bruell, preschool teacher at the Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland’s Early Childhood Education Center in Beachwood, was presented The Dr. Lifsa Schachter Early Childhood Education Award, recognizing an early childhood educator with professional skills and understanding of the

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Rebekah Levy, first grade Judaic teacher at Temple Emanu El in Orange, received The Libbie L. Braverman award, a parentnominated award recognizing a teacher demonstrating dedication to teaching and aiding in developing methods or materials to advance the Jewish teaching profession.

Regina Krieger, director of Teens and Monday Limmud at The Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood, now Congregation Mishkan Or, was given The S. Lee Kohrman Award in Jewish Experiential Education, recognizing an outstanding “Beyond the Classroom” educator.

Glickman ended the ceremony thanking those that have shown the honorees support.

“These individuals would not be the educators they are today without the support they’ve received over the years,” she said. “To their families, colleagues and their school administration, thank you for supporting these amazing award winners.”

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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland gala raises nearly $2.5M

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Over 900 people attended the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland’s 82nd Scholarship Tribute Dinner on March 23 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The dinner was in tribute to Dr. Michael (Moshe) and Sydney Harris, while Jeffrey J. Wild received the Mendy Klein Community Service Award. The event was in memory of Mel Waxman.

“As we celebrate exponential growth and remarkable achievement, tonight we have gathered to say thank you,” Rabbi Simcha Dessler, menahel/educational director at Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, said at the event. “This amazing event tonight perhaps exemplifies the fulfillment of the vision of our founders. Those who dared to dream on the ashes of the Holocaust some 82 years ago. ... The academy today, is an anchor of our community, is a bastion of Torah, and is a national leader in Torah Chinuch in America. ...”

The event also marked the completion of its scholarship campaign, which raised $2,495,214

with over 900 contributors, Dr. Louis Malcmacher, president of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, said at the event. The campaign allows the academy to educate its 1,530 students across its three campuses in Cleveland Heights and Beachwood regardless of their parent’s financial constraints. Malcmacher also gave opening remarks and thanked academy partners.

Jeffrey J. Wild, a firm administrative partner, chief strategy partner, executive committee member and chair of the real estate practice group at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP in Cleveland, received the Mendy Klein Community Service Award at the event. The award recognizes an outstanding individual or couple.

Michael Harris is a board member and Sydney Harris is president of the PTA. They received framed art of a Jerusalem painting

Dr. Stephen Parker, from left, Rabbi Eli Dessler, financial director at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, and Peter and Susie Meisel at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland’s 82nd Scholarship Tribute Dinner at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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by an Israeli artist for outstanding dedication and achievements in the Cleveland Jewish community and beyond.

A surprise tribute to Lois Mager, teacher and administrator of the academy’s Beatrice Stone Yavne High School in Beachwood for over 40 years, who is retiring at the end of the school year was presented at the event by Dessler.

A memorial tribute for Mel Waxman, who died on Oct. 24, 2024, at age 90, was also shown at the event. Waxman was a former president of the academy, the founder of the Cleveland Chabad community and Waxman Chabad Center in Beachwood, and CEO of Waxman Industries in Bedford Heights. Waxman’s son, Larry Waxman, accepted the tribute at the event.

As he presented the tribute, Dessler said above the front doors of academy’s main campus on South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights will now read, “Shaar Waxman, the Gates of Waxman, in everlasting memory of Mel and Marcia Waxman.”

Academy staff Rabbi Nochum and Rena Sokol, and Michele Weiss received tickets to Israel for 25 years of devoted service and Leah Drucker received a gift for 15 years of service.

Rabbi Naphtali Burnstein, spiritual leader of Young Israel of Greater Cleveland in Beachwood, led attendees in Psalms for the safe return of the hostages held in Gaza and those

on the front lines.

Malcmacher also discussed the conflict during his remarks.

“It’s hard to believe that we sit here from a year ago being at this dinner, and there’s still hostages being held, there’s still a war going on, and it’s something that weighs heavily on our minds,” Malcmacher said. “And I just wanted to tell you that the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland is represented well by over 700 alumni living in Israel who are both on the spiritual front lines of learning Torah and on the physical front lines in the (Israeli Defense Forces) to protect the Jewish people.”

At the event, video messages from Rabbi Elya Brundy of Vaad Hachinuch and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland were shown.

“The Jewish Federation of Cleveland is very proud of the work of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland and very proud to be a strong, longterm partner,” Erika B. Rudin-Luria, president of the Federation, said in the Federation’s video message.

A special feature video, “Shaping Futures. Inspiring Excellence,” about HAC’s mission and legacy was also shown.

The event featured performances from the Hebrew Academy boys’ choir under the direction of Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Mann and Yehuda Fleishman.

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Erika B. Rudin-Luria, president of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, from left, Gary L. Gross, past board chair of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Rabbi Eli Dessler, financial director at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, Rabbi Simcha Dessler, menahel/educational director at Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, Jeffrey J. Wild, recipient of the Mendy Klein Community Service Award, and Dr. Louis Malcmacher, president of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. | Photo / New Image Photography

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academy was approved at the event.

David Berkowitz from Florida won the $10,000 raffle, which was chosen by third grader Avi Grodko, the grandson of the Harrises. Rabbi Moshe Marcovich, director of development at the academy, announced the winner.

“Tonight, we pledge to the community that we will continue to work tirelessly, shaping futures and inspiring excellence, to nurture a love of Yiddishkeit, to empower Talmidei Chachamim in B’Nos Yisrael, to polish your diamonds, to inspire your families and to build communities one Neshama at a time,” Dessler said.

In a surprise presentation Rabbi Simcha Dessler, menahel/educational director at Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, recognizes Lois Mager, teacher and administrator of the Academy’s Beatrice J. Stone Yavne High School in Beachwood, for four decades of service at the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. | Photos / New Image Photography

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Fuchs Mizrachi’s spring event ‘A Night to Remember’

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Over 300 people from the Fuchs Mizrachi School community and beyond celebrated its accomplishments, community, gratitude and involvement at the “Spring Event 2025: A Night To Remember,” on March 20 at the school in Beachwood.

Dr. Avi and Francoise Jacobs received the Mike and Peppy Senders Outstanding Service Award for their dedication to the school and the greater Jewish community. Jess Segen received the Rabbi Melvin L. Granatstein Educational Leadership Award for 14 years of dedication, creativity and care as a Fuchs Mizrachi educator.

Wayne Schulz was recognized for 25 years of dedicated service to the school community as its beloved director of facilities and was additionally presented with a special alumni tribute created by dedicated alumni as a heartfelt gesture of gratitude, according to a news release. Attendees also previewed

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Fuchs Mizrachi School president Mitch Wolf addresses over 300 community members at Fuchs Mizrachi School’s “Spring Event 2025: A Night to Remember” on March 20 at the school in Beachwood.

Katie Spiegler, left, a Fuchs Mizrachi parent, moderates a Q&A with pro-Israel activist Lizzy Savetsky. | Photos / Scott Morrison

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renderings of the school’s upcoming building expansion.

Alumni chayalim Jeremy Davis, class of 2004; Jeff Fantl, class of 2007; Yonah Bar-Shain, class of 2017; Liat Weiss, class of 2020; and Ezra Shiller, class of 2021, also shared their experiences as Fuch Mizrachi students living in Israel, their service in the Israel Defense Forces and dedication to Am Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael and Torat Yisrael, the release said.

The program featured a Q&A session with pro-Israel activist Lizzy Savetsky on how to tackle the growing challenges of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in today’s world, which was moderated by Katie Spiegler, a Fuchs Mizrachi parent.

Rabbi Avery Joel, left, and school president Mitch Wolf, present Jess Segen the Rabbi Melvin L. Granatstein Educational Leadership Award.

Jewish Federation of Cleveland representative Beth Wain Brandon addresses the audience.

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School president Mitch Wolf, left, and Rabbi Avery Joel recognize Wayne Schulz, center, for 25 years of service to Fuchs Mizrachi.

Francoise and Dr. Avi Jacobs, from left, receive the Mike and Peppy Senders Outstanding Service Award from Dr. Shelly Senders, Rabbi Avery Joel and school president Mitch Wolf.

Friendship Circle expands Hebrew school programming

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Friendship Circle of Cleveland, an organization that links teen volunteers and children with developmental disabilities, has added another session to its Hebrew school program, Kulanu. Located in Pepper Pike, Friendship Circle offers a variety of programming in addition to the Hebrew school, which has 35 neurodiverse students.

Executive Director Rabbi Yossi Marozov and program director Rabbi Yosef Peysin recently discussed Kulanu’s origins and the expansion.

“As a rabbi deeply passionate about Jewish education and inclusion, I’ve seen firsthand how much joy and connection a program like Kulanu can bring,” Peysin, who lives in University Heights with his wife and two children and attends services at Anshei Lubavitch of Cleveland in University Heights, told Cleveland Kesher

“Families raising children with disabilities are balancing so much, and often their child’s Jewish connection is unintentionally put on hold. A strong, personal connection to Jewish holidays, rituals and symbols can be a lifelong source of joy and stability for these children. We decided to expand in response to the needs of our community. In conversations with parents, we found that different families require different types of Hebrew school experiences. We decided to offer smaller and more individualized after-school programs than those on Sunday mornings.”

These are now offered on Monday and Wednesday afternoons as well. All programming focuses on three central areas: experiential learning, Hebrew reading and core prayers.

“These elements create a rich, supportive learning environment to explore Jewish identity and form lasting connections to their heritage,” Peysin said. “We meet each child where they

are. Whether from Reform, Conservative, Orthodox or unaffiliated homes, each child grows in their own way.”

Mazorov, who lives in Beachwood with his wife and seven children and serves as rabbi for Semach Sedek Synagogue in South Euclid, explained the roots of Kulanu.

“In 1979, a social worker from Coney Island Hospital asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe what the Jewish approach should be for handicapped children,“ he told Cleveland Kesher. “The Rebbe’s reply forms the basis of our program. To paraphrase his words: When a child with a handicap is involved in Jewish education and activities it gives them a sense of attachment, belonging, and connection. Jewish education is our elementary obligation to all Jewish children without exception. The word Kulanu means ‘All of us.’ Indeed, we are complete only when all of us are included.”

The school caters to all Jewish children.

“This type of program, a special ed-friendly, inclusive Hebrew school environment, isn’t available anywhere else in Jewish Cleveland,” Mazorov said. “We also have neurotypical children whose parents want to expose them to neurodiverse children and children with disabilities in a world-class Hebrew school environment and connect with children with different abilities and communication styles.”

Peysin said, “This isn’t just about education –it’s about giving your child a sense of belonging and pride in their Jewish identity. And for neurotypical children, enrolling in Kulanu provides the chance to learn Hebrew school topics while building friendships and communication skills with children of all abilities.”

Lisa Matkowsky is a freelance journalist.

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Yeshiva High School of Cleveland celebrates Lag b’Omer

Yeshiva High School of Cleveland celebrated Lag b’Omer on May 15 with a celebration highlighted by the lighting of a bonﬁre. The event was held in the parking lot of the school on Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood and included games, a magic show, an animal show, pony rides, food and more.

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