Cohon Memorial Foundation Awards

Join us in Tucson, where our president, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon and vice-president Rabbi Baruch J. Cohon will present the 2016 Cohon Memorial Foundation Awards.
These cash awards are presented once a year to individuals, for important achievements that benefit Klal Yisrael — the total Jewish People.

In 1983, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein founded the IFCJ — the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews — devoting his life to building bridges of understanding between Christians and Jews and broad support for the State of Israel. His tireless effort continues to rescue oppressed and starving Jews in many parts of the world, including for example Holocaust survivors in Ukraine, bringing them to Israel for relief and freedom. Today the IFCJ raises over $140million annually, making it the largest Christian-supported humanitarian nonprofit working in Israel now.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is a University of California faculty member and the cofounder and director of AMCHA Initiative. She has written articles about academic anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, and lectured widely on the growing threat to the safety of Jewish students on college campuses. Most recently she led a coalition of nearly 50 Jewish and education advocacy groups that successfully lobbied the University of California, the nation’s largest and most prestigious public university, to condemn “anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic forms of Zionism.