Students from Texas, Florida, Maryland, Arizona, and Nevada honored for their leadership, receive $3,000 and $5,000 awards
Hillel International, the world’s largest Jewish campus organization, has selected five young leaders, three in high school and two in college, to receive scholarship awards in recognition of their leadership, volunteerism, and commitment to their communities. The $3,000 and $5,000 awards are designated for eligible students who identify as Jewish and are attending or preparing to attend four-year colleges and universities or graduate school in the United States and Canada.
This year’s recipients of the new Handeli First-Year Student Scholarship of $3,000 per year up to four years are Maya Friedberg, an incoming undergraduate student at Middlebury College, of Bellaire, Texas; and Salomon Bibas, an incoming undergraduate student at the University of Florida, of Miami, Florida. The recipient of this year’s Jules and Gwen Knapp First-Generation Student Scholarship of $3,000 per year for up to four years is Lia Abuhsira, an incoming undergraduate student at Fordham University, of Clarksburg, Maryland. For this year’s Jules and Gwen Knapp Campus Leadership Award of $3,000 per year for up to three years, Hillel International has selected Victoria Yusupova, a rising college senior at Arizona State University studying psychology and sociology, of Vali, Arizona. The Hillel Graduate Student Award of $5,000 has been awarded to Miriam Borvick, an incoming graduate student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas of Las Vegas, Nevada.