Five California teens win Diller tikkun olam awards
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2011
Five California teenagers won Diller Teen Tikkun Olam awards for their innovative social action projects.
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Synagogue restorations garner awards in Poland
Jewish Journal
April 27, 2011
Restoration projects on two synagogues in Poland have garnered awards. The mainly European Union-funded restoration of the twin-towered synagogue in Ostrow Wielkopolski in south-central Poland was awarded the top prize in the fourth edition of the Facade of the Year contest, the Polish news agency PAP reported Wednesday.
Journalists’ group considers dropping Helen Thomas award
Jewish Journal
January 4, 2011
Helen Thomas’ decision to take her disparagement of Zionists from off the cuff (last May) to on the record (last month) has led a journalists\’ group to consider dropping her name from a lifetime achievement award. The Society of Professional Journalists is revisiting its decision last summer not to change the name of its Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award after Thomas, 90, told an Arab-American group in Dearborn, Mich., last month that Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street “are owned by the Zionists.” Thomas, a 67-year-veteran of Washington reporting, resigned from her job as a columnist at Hearst last June after remarking to a video blogger that Jews “should get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Poland, Germany and the United States. She later apologized, but her remarks in Michigan on Dec. 2 have raised fresh concerns about the sincerity of the apology.
Kindergartners Publish Their Own Work in Award-winning Project
Jewish Journal
June 2, 2010
What does it take to become a published author? For 12 kindergartners from Tuvia School at Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach, all it took was a dedicated teacher who recognized the value of teaching writing skills and creativity to her students. Lauren Adler, a teaching veteran of 20 years, was awarded a grant from the California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC). She was one of only two early-childhood education professionals in California to win the $500 Beth A. Lake award for her young authorship proposal. Adler’s project gave her students the opportunity to write, illustrate and publish their own stories.\n
Briefs: Seeds of Peace extends past Summer; BBYO offers cash incentive for summer camps
Jewish Journal
February 28, 2008
Education briefs.
Milken students win first high school X PRIZE
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 2, 2007
Milken Community High School students joined the space race this week when two seniors won the first-ever X PRIZE competition for high schoolers. On Sunday, Michael Hakimi and Talia Nour-Omid took home the first Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award for their concept of developing bio-monitoring sunglasses to keep space travelers healthy during civilian spaceflight.
Mellon awardee explores Shoah’s place in English lit
Tom Tugend
April 27, 2007
America\’s richest prize in the humanities, worth $1.5 million, has been awarded to the scholarly son of a Swedish American carpenter for a three-year project on the impact of the Holocaust on American literature.
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