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L. A. PINCUS FUND TO AWARD MAX M. FISHER PRIZE FOR JEWISH EDUCATION TO TWO LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATORS The Max M. Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora for the year 2003 will be awarded to Dr. Rachel Ejgenberg, of Montevideo, Uruguay, and Ms. Rivka Anijovich of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The award ceremony will take place at 12:30 on Monday, June 23, 2003, at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, at the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors meetings. The Max M. Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora was established in 1999, by the Board of the L. A. Pincus Fund for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, to celebrate Mr. Fisher's 90th birthday, and to recognize his leading role in supporting the advancement of Jewish education in the Diaspora. Mr. Fisher has served as Chairman since the Fund's establishment in 1977. The Jerusalem-based Pincus Fund works to strengthen Jewish education in the Diaspora through support for new and innovative programs. The Fund has allocated grants to more than 500 projects in over 40 countries. This is the first year that the Max M. Fisher Prize has been awarded to educators in Latin America. Dr. Ejgenberg and Ms. Anijovich have played significant roles in both Jewish and secular education in the region. Dr. Ejgenberg began her work in education as a chemistry teacher, and has enjoyed an active career in teaching, educational research, and administration. She has lectured on issues involved in both Jewish and secular education, at dozens of conferences and institutes. Dr. Ejgenberg currently serves as Principal of the Instituto Ariel Hebreo Uruguayo, a Jewish Day school in Montevideo, with an enrollment of 500 students, from pre-school through high school. The school is part of the network of Jewish schools throughout Latin America implementing Hora'a Mutemet. The school also partners with UNESCO as a Center for Excellence and Innovation in Promulgating the UNESCO Ideals via Local Projects. Dr. Ejgenberg reports that the Instituto Ariel Hebreo Uruguayo aspires to teach its students to create a synthesis of the various worlds in which they live-home, school, and the wider community. This involves combining tradition, modernity, individuality, and community. The school has promoted family and community participation in a variety of activities. Dr. Ejgenberg takes pride in the fact that many of her former students now live and work in Israel, and others are active in Uruguayan community institutions, and send their children to Jewish schools. Ms. Anijovich began her career as a day school teacher, and director of youth activities in a large community center. She helped found "Amos", a Jewish art-oriented high school, where she served as Headmistress from 1983-1990. Throughout most of her career, Ms. Anijovich has been involved in teacher training and supervision. Since 1996, she has served as director of the Hora'a Mutemet (Educational Excellence) Project in Latin America, overseeing program development in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. This project involves Jewish day schools in implementing an innovative approach to teaching, which places the student at the center of the educational process and accommodates diversity in students' abilities, learning styles, and interests. The project is supported and implemented by the Jewish Agency Education Department, and is under the supervision of Matach (Center for Educational Technology), Tel Aviv. The Pincus Fund has provided key support for implementation of Hora'a Mutemet in sixteen schools, in Argentina and Brazil.
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