{"id":9956,"date":"2015-01-09T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:02:39","slug":"first-lamplighter-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2015\/01\/09\/first-lamplighter-award\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lamplighter Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Young philanthropist Yosef Nider receives recognition. <em>(photo from Naomi Nelson Photography)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Dec. 21, the Centre for Judaism in Surrey\/White Rock held its annual menorah lighting at Semiahmoo Centre, and awarded its inaugural Young Lamplighter Award to Yosef Nider, pictured here. The young violinist, a student at Vancouver Hebrew Academy, received the award for raising more than $10,000 for cancer research. Mayors Wayne Baldwin and Linda Hepner presented the award.<\/p>\n<p>The lighting was attended by local city councilors and Jewish community members, all welcomed by the centre\u2019s Rabbi Falik and Simie Schtroks.<\/p>\n<p>To nominate for next year\u2019s award a youth between ages 5-18 who is illuminating his or her part of the world by promoting goodness and kindness, email <a href=\"mailto:c4j@shaw\" target=\"_blank\">c4j@shaw<\/a> with Lamplighter Award in the subject line. Nominations will be accepted through September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young philanthropist Yosef Nider receives recognition. (photo from Naomi Nelson Photography) On Sunday, Dec. 21, the Centre for Judaism in Surrey\/White Rock held its annual menorah lighting at Semiahmoo Centre, and awarded its inaugural Young Lamplighter Award to Yosef Nider, pictured here. The young violinist, a student at Vancouver Hebrew Academy, received the award for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2855,2853,2854,525],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-centre-for-judaism","tag-lamplighter-award","tag-schtroks","tag-yosef-nider"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}