Eighth-Grade Honor Society to Award Scholarships

Teachers, rabbis and community leaders are invited to nominate outstanding eighth-grade students for the newly established American Hebrew Academy Honor Society. Nominees will be chosen based on excellence in academics, leadership, service to community and character.

Honor Society members will receive a certificate and will be invited for a spring weekend at the American Hebrew Academy, a pluralistic Jewish boarding school in North Carolina. The school will also award five Honor Society members merit-based $20,000 renewable scholarships to use at the academy. Nominations are due January 15, 2010.

For more information or to nominate a student, go to