Jewish-American Hall of Fame Chronology

• 2025 On May 14, the winners of the Washington-Rosenwald HBCU Creative Contest were announced during Jewish American Heritage Month. Each winner received a $5,000 scholarship and a Julius Rosenwald-Booker T. Washington medal (it’s in the golden bag). Pictured (L-R) Ayomikun Mesogboriwon (Talladega College), Leona Francis (Morgan State University), Jordyn Nesbitt (Xavier University of Louisiana), Justin Kinnison (Howard University), and Kirah Young (Hampton University).
  



• 2025 On November 19, Julius Rosenwald was inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of Fame in a Zoom ceremony. Arthur Maserjian, Deputy Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, was moderator, and speakers were Mel Wacks, Founding Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, Sam Asher, Executive Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Home of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame exhibit of plaques, Eugene Daub, sculptor of the Julius Rosenwald-Booker T. Washington plaque (pre-recorded), Dorothy Canter, Funder and President of the Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Campaign, Dazia Wallerson, African-American Alliance Manager of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, Jerry Klinger, president and founder of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., Co-Founder & President Frederick Douglass family initiatives, and the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington (pre-recorded), and Gemma Birnbaum, Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society (pre-recorded). You can watch this outstanding 70 minute program by clicking here.

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