2026 JCF Scholarship Awards: Breaking Records & Supporting Dreams!

Post-high school education and experiential travel can be life-changing opportunities.

In order to help community members achieve these dreams, many generous donors to the Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. have collectively managed to provide more dollars in scholarship awards this year than any prior year over the course of more than two decades that the JCF has provided financial scholarships.

It's a fantastic record to break.

With the 2026 JCF Scholarship Awards cycle now complete, the JCF's Scholarship Committee, Board of Trustees, and staff are thrilled to share that a total of over $58,000 has been awarded to benefit 39 individuals from Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties who are enrolled in educational or travel programs for the upcoming year. This award total triples the dollar amount that JCF provided 10 years ago and close to doubles the amount provided seven years ago.

Mazel tov to all awardees and thank you to all award donors!

The bulk of JCF Scholarship Award dollars are made possible thanks to endowment funds that spinoff annual financial support. Of note, this year, three new endowment funds were added to the 13 existing endowment funds in the JCF Scholarship Awards lineup, and several private donors contributed one-time donations to further grow this year's pool of available funding.

The JCF looks forward to hosting its annual Scholarship Awards Reception in June to celebrate the awardees and thank the award donors.

The list of scholarship awards is as follows (new funds indicated in parentheses), along with the name(s) of each applicant who received that financial award:

Awards for Post-High School Education:

STUART & MARYLEE ALPERIN JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD (New for 2026)

Joey Lieberson

BRANFMAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD (New for 2026)

Autumn Cherilien • Nayeli Efrat • Noah Ezekiel • Maya Ezran • Abigail Goldman

Tara Goldman • Rivi Jay • Maryanne Kelton • Arden Leslie • Antasia Lloyd

Susan Ottenberg • Gabriel Sokolic • Yarden Yanushkevich

PATRICE FAYE COHEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Ofek Bar-Or • Rachelle Malka • Alexis Rovner

FURER-BARAG-WOLF JEWISH WAR VETERANS POST 126 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Sarah Arnstein • Charlotte Bomze • Hannah Sturtz

VALERIE GLADFELTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Ofek Bar-Or • Morgan Hann

BEN LIPITZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

(No awardees this year)

DONALD LOVE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Cary Bloom

SUSAN LOVE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Samuel Neuwirth

COLONEL DAVID MARCUS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Neta Shahar Charnuha

STACEY & EDWARD RIVKIN ASPIRATION AWARD (New for 2026)

Bailey Hann  • Max Hann

ROBERT L. SCHATTNER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Ella Alfassy • Reut Shahar Charnuha • Natalie Desmond

Bailey Hann • Max Hann • Rachel Hornstein

SEYMOUR SIEGEL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

(No awardees this year)

MILDRED SOEFER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Chaim Baratz • Rachel Hornstein • Julia Mizrachi • Zachary Smith

STUDENT OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

[IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR & ELEANOR KLEIN (z"l) and DAVID RIVKIN (z"l)]

Maya Ezran • Miri Greenwald • Toby Greenwald

Seth Hornstein • Rachelle Malka • Zachary Smith

Awards for Experiential Travel and Technology:

BENJAMIN ASBELL YOUTH UPSILON LAMBDA PHI FRATERNITY AWARD

Alexis Rovner

JACLYN EHRLICH TRAVEL EXPERIENCE AWARD

Danny Spector

LEONARD JAY HIRSCHFELD MEMORIAL AWARD

Chaim Baratz • Noah Ezekiel • Joey Lieberson • Rachelle Malka

SOUTH JERSEY HEBREW ASSOCIATION

FREDA & SAM YACKER ISRAEL EXPERIENCE AWARD

Aliza Bienenfeld • Brendan Sokolic

For the 2027 JCF Scholarship Awards, information will be announced in late December.

We look forward to another round of supporting some incredible members of our community!