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Jewish Federation Announces Three
Young Leadership Award Winners
E ach year, the Jewish Federation
of Greater Philadelphia gives out
three young leadership awards:
the Blanche Wolfe Kohn Award, the
Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Award
and the Jack Goldenberg Award.

With those honors, the Jewish
Federation identifi es younger Jews in
the community who may shape the
future of Jewish Philadelphia.

And this year, for the fi rst time since
1996, all three winners are women.

Carly Zimmerman, a 34-year-
old Center City resident, earned the
Blanche Wolfe Kohn award. Sarah
Vogel, a 45-year-old member of Temple
Sinai in Dresher, received the Myer and
Rosaline Feinstein honor. And Julie
Perilstein Mozes, a 36-year-old Temple
Beth Zion-Beth Israel member in
Carly Zimmerman
Philadelphia, got the Jack Goldenberg
award. “All three are young women who
have families and careers,” said Gail
Norry, the co-chair of the Jewish
Federation’s board, who was one
of those 1996 honorees. “It’s really
impressive that you also take a serious
leadership role and make a large phil-
anthropic contribution.”
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Th e women discussed their jour-
neys to service, as well as the future of
Jewish life in the Philadelphia area.

Carly Zimmerman
Zimmerman, an executive in her
family’s company, Larson Lighting
Protection, grew up in Harrisburg in
an interfaith household. She celebrated
holidays with her grandparents and
had a bat mitzvah. But aft er that, she
grew apart from Judaism.

At her freshman orientation at the
University of Pittsburgh, though, she
connected with a woman who worked
for Hillel and got involved, planning
retreats and food-packing events,
among other activities.

Aft er college, she spent six years as
CEO of Challah for Hunger, where she
worked to “decrease food insecurity
on college campuses,” according to a
Jewish Federation news release. Today,
she is the chair of Women of Vision,
a Jewish Federation arm that gives
grants to nonprofi ts that help women
and girls.

Zimmerman does this work for her
6-year-old daughter Norah.

“If I can leave the world better for her,
that will make it all worth it,” she said.

Sarah Vogel
Vogel, a speech language pathologist at
the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
said it's in her DNA to serve the Jewish
community. Her grandparents and parents both
gave to the Jewish Federation. But it
was not until Vogel’s sister invited her
to the Jewish Federation’s women’s
leadership development program that
she got involved.

Over those six sessions, she learned
the organization’s detailed process for
allocating millions of dollars to worthy
causes. Vogel then joined the Women’s
Philanthropy Board and hosted a
speaker series designed to get people
involved with the Jewish Federation.

More recently, she gave the pitch for
Lion of Judah, the event that encour-
ages female donors to reach the $5,000
milestone. She is now the vice chair of Women’s
Philanthropy, which raises money for
programs at places like the Mitzvah
Food Pantry and the KleinLife com-
munity center.

“My hope would be that the organi-
zations keep evolving and that there’s
a lot more fl exibility and options for
people to stay connected to the Jewish
community even if it’s diff erent from
the traditional Conservative, Reform,
Orthodox options,” she said.

Julie Perilstein Mozes
Perilstein Mozes, who works for
Penn Medicine on business develop-
ment, said it was her grandmother,
Cookie Perilstein, who inspired her
to become active in the Jewish com-
munity. Perilstein donated her money,
time and energy to the Mitzvah Food
Pantry, Abramson Senior Care and
Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, where
she belonged.

“Wherever I would go, she was a
beloved member of the community,”
Perilstein Mozes said.

Aft er working in New York City, the
granddaughter moved back to Philly 10
years ago and got active in the Jewish
Federation. Aft er serving on its board
of trustees, nominating committee and
Women’s Philanthropy board, she is
now involved in shaping the nonprofi t’s
strategic plan for the next three years.

Th e Jewish Federation must under-
stand the nature of the Jewish com-
munity today, according to Perilstein
Mozes. “I think there are people who are not
from traditional backgrounds that want
to raise Jewish families,” she said. JE
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Courtesy of Carly Zimmerman, Sarah Vogel, Julie Perilstein Mozes
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