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May 14, 2025

Sylvia Tuman Scholarship Program Provides Help to College Students

Attention, college and graduate students! There’s still time to apply for a Sylvia Tuman Scholarship to help fund your higher education. A limited number of scholarships are available from The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation to Jewish undergraduate and graduate students in need of financial assistance. To be eligible, students must be enrolled or accepted in an accredited undergraduate or graduate degree program at a college or university in Miami-Dade or Broward counties, with preference given to institutions of higher learning in Miami-Dade County. Since the program’s inception in 2016, more than $180,000 in grants have been awarded. Click here for more information and to apply by the May 31 deadline. For questions, please contact Maayan Nafshi at [email protected] or 786.866.8498.

Kibbutznik Find Healing With Surf Therapy

Kibbutznik Find Healing With Surf Therapy

With the help of Federation funding, Kibbutz Or HaNer recently launched three new surf therapy groups supporting women from families of reservists, men ages 35-55 and adults 55-and-over.

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Do You Want to Be a Diller Teen Fellow?

Do You Want to Be a Diller Teen Fellow?

Diller Teen Fellows, a pluralistic and immersive leadership program for rising Jewish 10th and 11th graders is now accepting applications for their next cohort that will take place during the academic year 2025-2026.

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Eighth Annual Robotics Festival

Eighth Annual Robotics Festival

Scheck Hillel Community School, one of 10 Federation-funded Jewish day schools, hosted the 8th Annual CAJE Jewish Day School Robotics Festival this May.

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Helping Holocaust Survivors

Helping Holocaust Survivors

At 109 years old, Malka “Mollie” Horwitz is Miami-Dade County’s oldest known living Holocaust Survivor, and for the past 11 years has been able to live in dignity, thanks to the Federation-funded Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program operated by our partner Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS).

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