Jewish Leadership Award
Micah Social Responsibility Award
Aaron Goldman Young Jewish Activist Award
Small-Alper Incentive Grant

The Micah Social Responcibility award was created in 2004 to allow PANIM to honor Washingtonians who have demonstrated a commitment to ethics in his/her professional or volunteer life. In addition, recipients of the Micah Award will have sought, either through personal engagement or their philanthropic activity, to create a more caring and compassionate greater Washington, D.C. community. In so doing, they will have evidenced the qualities of justice, mercy, and humility famously attributed to the prophet Micah.

Past Honorees:

2008: Lilian Friedlander Small, Carolyn Small Alper, Richard Small Alper, and Patricia Alper-Cohn

2007: Gerald Charnoff

2006: Jack Kay

2005: Howard Polinger and Arnold Polinger
 

2004: Howard and Sondra Bender

Aaron Goldman Young Jewish Activist Award

Apply for the Aaron Goldman Young Jewish Activist Award Today!  Each year PANIM highlights the efforts of one of its alumni/ae who has done the most to make the world a better place since returning home from their PANIM seminar. 

• Receive a $1000 cash prize.
• Take an all expenses paid trip to D.C. with your parents for PANIM's annual benefit dinner on Sunday, May 18, 2008.
• Talk about your "world repair" project to hundreds of PANIM's most committed supporters at PANIM's annual dinner.
• Be featured in PANIM's newsletter, FACES, allowing us to publicize your accomplishment to thousands of fellow alumni and PANIM supporters around the country. 

Applicants must be an alumnus of one of PANIM's programs, be 22 years of age or younger, and not have graduated from college prior to December 2007.

2008 Award Winner

On May 18, 2008 PANIM presented its tenth annual Young Jewish Activist Award to PANIM alumnus, Ben Simon of Takoma Park, Maryland. As part of the process of selecting the recipient, we heard from many of you telling us about the exciting work you are doing in your communities. It was a difficult decision to give just one award.

Past  Young Jewish Activist Award Honorees:

2007: Jackie Rotman, Santa Barbara, California
2006: Joshua Offenhartz, Tucson, Arizona
2005: David Landon Frim, Boca Raton, Florida
2004: Ilana Cohn, West Hartford, Connecticut
2003: Ilana Papir, North Miami Beach, Florida
2002: Arielle Parker, Cincinnati, Ohio
2001: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
2000: Susan Feizzadeh, San Jose, California
1999: Matt Engel, Port Washington, New York

2007 Young Jewish Activist Awardee Jackie Rotman laughs
with Chairman of PANIM's Board of Trustees Michael Rappeport

STAY INVOLVED!

Each year, more than 1,000 American Jewish high school students leave their PANIM youth leadership seminar in D.C. empowered and inspired to
make the world a better place - will you?

Thanks to a generous grant from the Small-Alper Foundation, PANIM is pleased to be able to offer incentive grants to six students this year to encourage engagement in community service and activism after they return home from a PANIM program.

Be featured in PANIM's newsletter, FACES, allowing us to publicize your good works with thousands of fellow alumni and PANIM supporters around the country.