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Judd Kruger Levingston

Judd Kruger Levingston teaches Rabbinics and Jewish history at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School in the Philadelphia area. He also teaches at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and at Temple University. He earned his Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he also was ordained as a rabbi.

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Florence Heller

An important benefactress of Brandeis University, Florence Grunsfeld Heller made her mark as one of the first women to run a general Jewish organization, the Jewish Welfare Board. She also founded the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis in 1959.

Blanche Gilman

A native New Yorker, Blanche Pearl Gilman contributed her energy and resources to a variety of religious, health, social, and activist organizations. Gilman devoted her career to bringing diverse groups together, from her interfaith work to her leadership in the Pro-Falasha (Ethiopian Jewry) Committee.