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Avigail Chazin
Young Leadership Award

Avigail Chazin - Young Leadership AwardAvigail, a native of Kiev, Ukraine, grew up in a secular environment but with a family who were intensely proud of their Jewish heritage. At the age of 13, they enrolled Avigail in one of the first Jewish Schools in Kiev. After graduating High School, Avigail made Aliya to Israel, where she pursued her passion for Jewish education by completing a BA in Jewish History and certification from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In her role as “shlicha”- an educational emissary of the State of Israel, Avigail returned to Kiev to work as a Hebrew teacher at the ‘Orah Hayim’ school. She also supervised 18 Sunday schools for the Jewish Agency’s, Hefzibah program and created countless innovative programs for Jewish camps.

In 2005, Avigail immigrated with her four children to America, where she served as the head Jewish educator, for the ‘Beth Solomon’ network of Jewish after-school programs. In 2006, she was recruited by RAJE as a full time Jewish educator and program coordinator. Avigail’s dedication, creativity, love and compassion for all her students, have in no small way contributed to RAJE’s success.