JFREJ's 15th Annual Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards were a smashing success! The JFREJ community and allies came out in full force to celebrate a year of hard work - and the decades of inspiring work of our honorees! Freedom Riders Reverend C. T. Vivian and Joan Pluene, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Lucia Allain from United We Dream inspired us to take brave lessons of struggles won and re-commit ourselves to the fight today!
Enjoy some pictures below from this beautiful event.
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Board member Audrey Sasson and Honoree Reverend C. T. Vivian
JFREJ members Sarah Rosenthal and Nikki Morse, and JFREJ Board member Shira Eptstein
JFREJ Executive Director Marjorie Dove Kent
JFREJ Member Patricia Jerido
Honoree Reverend C. T. Vivian
Honoree Joan Pleune
Honorees Joan Pleune, Reverend C. T. Vivian, and Jose Antonio Vargas, MC Ariel "Speedwagon" Federow
JFREJ Member Allan Krivo-Kaufman and JFREJ Organizer Rachel McCullough
Board Member Elizabeth Wilson
JFREJ Friend Eric Ward
Honoree Jose Antonio Vargas
Honoree Jose Antonio Vargas
JFREJ Founders Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Donna Nevel
Musical performers Basya Schecter and Avi Fox-Rosen
Honoree Lucia Allain, United We Dream
MC Ariel "Speedwagon" Federow