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NEWSMAKERS Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that business
immigration attorney Nataliya Rymer now stands as a shareholder,
part of its 2019 class of firmwide elevations. She joined the firm in
2013, and focuses her practice on employment-based immigration
and compliance, representing a wide range of employment-based
immigrant and non-immigrant matters.

Guests gathered at the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) on Feb. 19 for
dinner and a conversation to benefit The Childhood Resilience Foundation. During the dinner,
Reshma Saujani, author of Brave Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, Live Perfect and the founder
of Girls Who Code, participated in a Q&A led by Garrett Snider, the founder of The Childhood
Resilience Foundation.

From left: Harrison Jacobs, Reilly Jacobs, Erica Jacobs, Mayor Jim Kenney and Garrett Snider
Photos by HughE Dillon
Nataliya Rymer
Photo courtesy Greenberg Traurig, LLP
From left: Garrett Snider,
Reshma Saujani and Karin Copeland
Terry Lawler, medical technician and resident care associate,
received the seventh annual Leah Berman Award for excellence
in care and service to the residents of Abramson Senior Care’s
Mildred Shor Inn on Feb. 22. Jordan and Deanna Berman
established the award to honor the memory of Jordan Berman’s
mother, Leah, and to recognize the compassionate and respectful
care she received as a five-year resident of the inn.

Nigel Richards and Emily Dodge
From left: Jordan and Deanna Berman, Terry Lawler and Carol A. Irvine,
president and CEO of the Abramson Center for Jewish Life
Photo courtesy Abramson Center for Jewish Life
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On Feb. 20, Har Zion Temple presented the community of Whitwell, Tenn., with a gift in honor
of the 20th anniversary of the “Paper Clips” project. The “gift” was a visit from Pastor Chris
Edmonds, who shared his inspirational “Be the Hero” program and the story of his imprisoned
World War II hero father with the students of Whitwell High School and the Whitwell community.

From left: Linda Hooper, principal of Whitwell Middle School at the inception of the “Paper Clips” Project
and current school board member; Rabbi Shawn SimonHazani, director of lifelong learning at Har Zion; Joy
Wilf Keiser, Har Zion congregant; Norman Einhorn, director of engagement and programming at Har Zion;
Pastor Chris Edmonds; and David Smith, project founder and Whitwell Elementary School principal
Pastor Chris Edmonds reflects among the 11 million paper clips of the
Children’s Holocaust Memorial in Whitwell, Tenn.

Photos courtesy Har Zion
Young Jewish Leadership Concepts (YJLC)
held its Pocono Ski Leadership Weekend on
Feb. 22-24.

YJLC skiers with guests from the Consulate
General of Israel in New York and the Israeli
mission to the UN
Photo courtesy YJLC
The Jewish Federations of North America and the Religious Action Center of the Reform
Movement co-hosted the ninth annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill.

Robin Schatz, director of government affairs at the
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, greets U.S.

House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer,
who spoke at the Jewish Disability Advocacy Day.

Photo courtesy JFNA
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