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Israeli Schulich Leader Committed to Tech Innovation

Since his days in the Israeli Scouts, building things from scratch using rope and wood, Asaf Aronson has always enjoyed using creative thinking to develop innovative solutions. Now a Schulich Leader and third-year Mechanical Engineering student in Israel’s Technion, Asaf hopes to apply thi…

Meet UJA's New Head of Community Security

Max Eisen in Memoriam

 

We were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Max Eisen, z”l, a beloved Toronto Holocaust survivor and educator. Max was an extraordinary leader in preserving the memory of the Shoah and bringing its lessons to life for the current generation. For many thousands within our com…

From Lone Immigrant to Top Nurse: How UJA Scholarships Changed Everything

Today, she is a top nurse at Wolfson Medical Centre in Bat Yam, one of UJA’s partner cities in Israel. She has a Master’s degree and a bright future ahead. But this wasn’t always the case for Atsede Aseffa—not until a UJA-funded program changed her life. When she first came to Israel…

Israeli Schulich Leader Follows Family Trade to Build Community

For many years, Gal Elfer—a 2017 Schulich Leader—thought he would take a different career path than his parents, with their deep interest in computers. But he fell in love with the family trade. Now, as a software engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook), he hopes to one day combine his pass…