Excerpt From Blog Post:Back in August, UJC/Federations of North America launched the Jewish Community Heroes Awards. The initiative – the largest-ever Jewish social-networking effort – was designed to recognize, and honor, individuals who are bettering their communities through service and outreach.
The awards were designed so nominations could be made by anyone with Internet access.
And when the process closed, over 400 were nominated and 500,000 votes were cast.
The nominees came from across the communal landscape and with an even greater diversity of projects or initiatives. Twenty semi-finalists were selected and then a panel of judges began the difficult task of evaluating, yes judging, the final five.
I had the privilege of serving as a judge – and the task was difficult. For how does one really choose? How does one measure the impact of one program against another? Choose, and rank, five from the many. Each has, and likely will continue, to be a...
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